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Federer to play in Australian flood relief event

This content was published on Jan 13, 2011 The event, Rally for Relief, is to take place on Sunday in Melbourne, a day before the Australian Open begins in the city. Defending champion Federer, world number one Rafael Nadal, Lleyton Hewitt, Kim Clijsters, Novak Djokovic and Jim Courier are among the sport’s celebrities who are to play in the charity event. The exhibition…

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Authorities launch anti-smoking ad with a positive spin

This content was published on Jan 13, 2011

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Federer wants to help Australian flood victims

This content was published on Jan 12, 2011 The Australian Open begins in Melbourne the following day and the defending champion said he would contact the event’s organisers. “The floods here in Australia are devastating,” he wrote in Melbourne. Last year Federer initiated a charity match before the first grand slam title of the year for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti…

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Cities see selves as climate change pioneers

This content was published on Jan 12, 2011 Cities use a lot of energy and cause around 70 per cent of the globe’s carbon dioxide emissions. There are plenty of ideas how to tackle these problems – but financing remains a problem. The goal of the two-day Global Energy Basel (GEB) conference is to help metropoles find investors – also attending – for…

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Faces of disaster

This content was published on Jan 12, 2011 swissinfo’s Thomas Kern travelled to Haiti and took these photographs of people in the Fort National neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince – a poor, densely populated maze of narrow streets and one-room shelters. It was among the hardest hit areas. Many residents moved to the makeshift campsite in Champs de Mars and have been unable to return.

Haitians still living under canvas

This content was published on Jan 12, 2011 swissinfo.ch visited a Swiss housing project in Petit-Goâve, a town 50km west of the capital Port-au-Prince, to find out why construction has barely begun, hampered by land ownership issues, local politics and uncoordinated humanitarian action. On January 12, 2010 at precisely 4.53pm the earth shook with all its might at Petit-Goâve and several houses in…

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Swiss kidnapped in Mexico

This content was published on Jan 12, 2011 The foreign ministry confirmed that there had been an abduction but gave no details of the case. A report in the French-language magazine, L’Illustré, said that a businessman had been kidnapped and his abductors were demanding a $300,000 (SFr293,000) ransom. The magazine report said the man had lived in the town of Cuernavaca for the…

Federal police operation targets Tamil Tigers

This content was published on Jan 11, 2011 On Tuesday the police searched 23 sites in cantons Basel City, Bern, Fribourg, Geneva, Graubünden, Lucerne, Solothurn, St Gallen, Vaud and Zurich. The operation was carried out in connection with an investigation dating back to May 2009, when several people of Tamil origin were accused of extortion, forgery, money laundering and membership in a criminal…

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Conditions in Swiss prisons criticised

This content was published on Jan 11, 2011 This was the first time that the commission had evaluated prisons. The 12-member group, which includes experts from various fields, visited three in 2010 and released its findings on Tuesday. It found that the women’s prison in Hindelbank, canton Bern, was far too strict and crowded – and its sanitary facilities in need of an…

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Cister21 – Lorenz Mühlemann & Christoph Greuter: Heicho – alte und neue Schweizer Landmusik

This content was published on Jan 11, 2011 Ländler L. Mühlemann & C. Greuter

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