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Parents seek to reopen Swiss bus crash enquiry

This content was published on Apr 13, 2014 The Belgian press reported on Saturday that the parents of 14 of the 22 children – out of a total of 28 people who died in the crash in a motorway tunnel between Sierre and Sion on March 13, 2012 – had contacted Dutch forensic experts to go back over the causes of the accident. The…

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Images of a pioneering alpine photographer

This content was published on Apr 12, 2014 Garbald’s 1909 family photo of the Giacomettis – parents Giovanni and Annette with their four children – went around the world. The picture appears in virtually every book on Giovanni, a post-Impressionist painter, his sons Alberto and Diego, both artists, and Bruno, an architect. Garbald studied photography in Zurich, afterwards moving into his parents’ home,…

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Bolivia calls for return of statuette

This content was published on Apr 11, 2014 Before speaking to journalists, Choquehuanca visited the Bern Historical Museum, which acquired the figure in 1929 from the heirs of the 19th century Swiss explorer and diplomat Johann Jakob von Tschudi. Von Tschudi reportedly traded a bottle of cognac for the statuette in 1858 while travelling in the Andean highlands. Bolivia first requested the restitution…

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‘Healer’ given tougher sentence for HIV jabs

This content was published on Apr 11, 2014 The former music teacher was originally found guilty in 2013 of serious bodily harm and of spreading human diseases and given almost 13 years in jail. The man had had claimed that he was a victim of a plot. But in its ruling on Friday, the Bern High Court of Appeal said that the evidence…

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Daniel Palmieri découvre une lettre dans les archives

This content was published on Apr 11, 2014

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Daniel Palmieri and Clare O’Dea at the ICRC archives

This content was published on Apr 11, 2014

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Swiss hit Kyoto targets for 2008-2012

This content was published on Apr 10, 2014 Despite the fact that between 2008 and 2012 the Swiss population grew by 18%, the number of cars on the road grew by 34% and gross national product rose by 36%, per capita greenhouse gas emissions fell from 7.8 to 6.4 tonnes, the Federal Environment Office said on Thursday. The 13% increase in emissions generated…

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British laws aim to end Swiss ‘death tourism’

This content was published on Apr 10, 2014 “We have a clear problem,” James Harris, head of campaigns and communications at pro-euthanasia lobby Dignity in Dying, told swissinfo.ch. “Dying people are ending their lives alone and without support or are reliant on the illegal assistance of a loved one or a doctor. They are terminally ill people who want to control their deaths…

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Swiss email accounts targeted by major scam

This content was published on Apr 8, 2014 The government’s Cybercrime Coordination Unit says it was informed by German investigators that about 18 million email addresses, including 38,000 with the .ch country code domain, were hacked into to be targeted by spam mail. The victims are then asked by the perpetrators to change their access data using a specially added link – a…

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