Cluster: Swiss Identity

International Cycling Union dismisses Tour de France doping results

This content was published on Aug 9, 2000 The UCI said it disputed a report by the Council for Prevention of Drug Use which found that 45 per cent of riders who provided samples had traces of drugs in their systems. The UCI said it stood by the results of its own doping controls and that it had followed guidelines laid down by…

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School accused of brutality allowed to reopen

This content was published on Aug 8, 2000 The education department said the Sonnenberg Institute in Vilters could reopen after the summer holidays since it would be under different management and would have a new headteacher. One of the conditions set by the education authorities was an assurance that corporal punishment would no longer take place. Last week it emerged that there had…

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Italy’s finance minister stirs up Ticinogate row

This content was published on Aug 8, 2000 Del Turco said the arrest of the former Ticino criminal court judge, Franco Verda, on corruption charges was just one aspect of a much wider problem. Speaking to Swiss Italian Radio, Del Turco particularly criticised the Swiss authorities for failing to offer legal assistance in the case which involved international cigarette smuggling. He said the…

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Circus Knie combines humour, poetry and tradition

This content was published on Aug 8, 2000 For this family circus with a 180-year-old tradition, the smell of greasepaint and the enthusiasm of the crowd are all-important. “The Swiss public still likes the traditional circus,” Knie’s press officer, Kris Krenger, told swissinfo. “Maybe they don’t want to see wild animals or acts that frighten them, but otherwise they demand the real traditional…

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Swiss horses begin Olympic lock-in

This content was published on Aug 8, 2000 Calvaro, Tinka’s Boy, Dulf and Pozitano are among the star names doing time in quarantine cells specially built at the Neuendorf riding school owned by top showjumper, Willi Melliger. The horses used by the Swiss dressage team are being kept at Mettmenstetten in canton Zurich. Both sets of horses will spend two weeks on home…

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Swiss to step up forced repatriation of Kosovars

This content was published on Aug 8, 2000 A spokesman for the federal refugee office, Dominique Boillat, said on Tuesday the repatriation programme had got off to a good start in July, when 1,800 people were returned to Kosovo – more than twice the number originally scheduled. Boillat said, however, the numbers would be increased in coming months. A total of 14,000 people…

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Police chief warns right-wing extremism is rising

This content was published on Aug 8, 2000 In an interview with the “Neue Luzerner Zeitung”, von Daeniken said that both the number and gravity of offences were rising. Von Daeniken told the paper that right-wing extremists are becoming more dangerous, and that they have access to assault weapons and explosives. But he said Switzerland’s security was not at risk. “The situation is…

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Swiss Jews criticise powerful Israeli rabbi

This content was published on Aug 8, 2000 In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities denounced the views outlined by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in a sermon on Saturday. The spiritual leader of the ultra-orthodox Shas party unleashed an international outcry by claiming that the six million Jews killed by Hitler’s regime were re-incarnations of past sinners who were…

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Wife of Ticino judge arrested in deepening corruption probe

This content was published on Aug 8, 2000 Desiree Rinaldi’s detention is the latest in a string of arrests ordered by special prosecutor, Luciano Guidici, according to the Ticino papers, “Corriere del Ticino” and “Giornale del Popolo”. Guidici is investigating allegations that Verda colluded with Italian businessman, Gerardo Cuomo, who is suspected of involvement in an international cigarette smuggling and money-laundering ring. Rinaldi,…

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First round defeats for Rosset and Federer

This content was published on Aug 8, 2000 Federer was beaten in straight sets by the Spaniard Francisco Clavet, losing both sets on tie-breaks 6-7 (3-7), 6-7 (3-7). It was the Swiss teenager’s fifth tournament defeat in a row, with his only recent victory coming in Switzerland’s Davis Cup thrashing of Belarus. Playing on a hardcourt surface against a claycourt specialist thirteen years…

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