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Verdicts given in firemen’s deaths case

This content was published on Dec 14, 2010 Seven firemen died in 2004 when a parking garage in Gretzenbach, northwestern Switzerland, collapsed on top of them as they fought to put out a fire. The other three defendants were acquitted of the charges, the Olten-Gösgen court announced on Tuesday. Solothurn’s public prosecutor had charged five people involved in building the garage with negligent…

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Swiss are happy but poverty risk remains

This content was published on Dec 13, 2010 However, one in seven are at risk of poverty and 6.7 per cent of the population is faced with serious material deprivation, it found. The Federal Statistics Office has conducted a comprehensive study of living conditions, taking into consideration the notions of well-being and income distribution in Switzerland. The results were published on Monday. The…

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swissinfo.ch iPad application

This content was published on Dec 13, 2010 The swissinfo.ch iPad app highlights our production: discover our main stories as well as multimedia, and select the elements you want to keep. High quality videos, audio slideshows, podcasts and galleries are available. Designed for maximum comfort and with a slower rhythm than our official website, the app includes a weekly review to keep in…

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Voters choose ballad as Swiss Eurovision song

This content was published on Dec 13, 2010 Following a national television selection competition, voters chose In Love For A While performed by Anna Rossinelli. Rossinelli, aged 23 and from Basel, beat competition from 11 other finalists on Saturday evening with a ballad with guitar accompaniment. The singer, who jobs as a waitress and street musician and was trained at the Basel Jazz…

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Swiss and French police step up cooperation

This content was published on Dec 12, 2010 The innovation was revealed on Sunday by the French-language newspaper Le Matin Dimanche. A suitcase transmitter located in the Police and Customs Cooperation Centre (CCPD) in Geneva will make it possible to switch to the same channels on both sides of the border. The transmitter, which has been put through several months of testing, has…

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Young Swiss reveal hopes and fears

This content was published on Dec 12, 2010 These are some of the findings in a survey of 16 to 25 year olds in Switzerland, published on Sunday on the Credit Suisse bank’s online magazine. The survey revealed that 62 per cent view saw their own future “fairly optimistically”, with only four per cent seeing it as “rather bleak”, although they were much…

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Love match for Martina Hingis

This content was published on Dec 12, 2010 The news was broken by the Swiss celebrity news magazine Schweizer Illustrierte, which said the civil ceremony had been a private family affair. The couple met at a horse show near St Tropez in France in April, the magazine said. Hingis is known for her interest in horses. According to the SonntagsBlick newspaper, the couple…

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Swiss win two curling medals

This content was published on Dec 11, 2010 The women, playing first, beat Russia 9:5. The men then defeated Germany 7:4. It is the fourth time in the last ten years that both teams have won medals. Last year each won silver. In the women’s final, Sweden beat Scotland 8:6 to take gold, while in the men’s final Norway beat Denmark 5:3.

Experts to discuss deportation initiative

This content was published on Dec 10, 2010 Sommaruga said the seven-strong panel would include two members of the rightwing Swiss People’s Party which had launched the initiative. The group, which includes also representatives of cantons and the federal administration, has until June 2011 to draw up detailed legislation. Opponents of the initiative, including the government, had warned that it is not in…

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Digital project saves Montreux Jazz heritage

This content was published on Dec 10, 2010 Recordings by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, B.B. King and Prince will be preserved and immortalised in the “Montreux Sounds Digital Project”, launched with the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and private sponsors. Ever since the first edition of the festival in 1967, which featured the Charles Lloyd Quartet with Keith…

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