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Zurich lose first leg in Champions League playoff

This content was published on Aug 18, 2011 Bastian Schweinsteiger and Arjen Robben scored in Munich to put the four-time European champions within sight of the group stage of European football’s most prestigious and lucrative tournament. With May’s Champions League final set to be held in Munich and an estimated €20 million (SFr23 million) to be gained just by reaching the tournament proper,…

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Vent Negru: U sool u nèss tutt i déi

This content was published on Aug 17, 2011 Inno della Vallona Vent Negru

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Mythical opera proves a hit in Graubünden

This content was published on Aug 17, 2011 An original piece, ‘Mikael’ was created by a team led by Origen Festival founder Giovanni Netzer and staged in the Riom Castle in Romansh-speaking central Graubünden. “Artistically this was a year of bold experiment: for the first time we worked with a mixed ensemble of singers, dancers and actors in our major productions. It made…

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Climatic contrasts

This content was published on Aug 17, 2011 This afternoon I’m in the alpine zone, well above the tree line, back in what’s familiar about Switzerland. This is the ultimate in climatic contrasts, and each has its place. After paddling across Lago Maggiore with Larry Ware, who brought his boat all the way down from Leysin just to help me across this low…

More money for famine victims

This content was published on Aug 17, 2011 The government approved the extra money at its meeting on Wednesday, its first after the summer break. Some of the money will go to help people southern Somalia and undernourished children in the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya to which many Somalis continue to flee. Another part will go to help provide education to young refugees…

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Curator Glenn Philipps on the importance of the Szeemann archive.

This content was published on Aug 17, 2011

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Curator Glenn Philipps on making the Szeemann archive accessible.

This content was published on Aug 17, 2011

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Aid agency joins forces with big business

This content was published on Aug 17, 2011 Fifty years after the cornerstone of Swiss development work was founded, SDC director Martin Dahinden talks about how the agency is evolving to deal with a changing world. The spotlight is currently on East Africa where tens of thousands of people each week are fleeing famine in Somalia to neighboring Ethiopia and Kenya. Conditions there…

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Assault sparks disquiet at Geneva insecurity

This content was published on Aug 16, 2011 The Swiss foreign ministry on Monday said it was “concerned” by the “deterioration of the security situation in recent months”. This follows a warning by the UN to its staff about going out alone in the city at night. Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey, who is also the acting Swiss president, has written to Isabel…

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Trio Langholz: Die etwas andere Alphornmusik

This content was published on Aug 16, 2011 Ice Cream Trio Langholz

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