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Street Parade ends without major incident

This content was published on Aug 15, 2010 The parade began with a minute of silence to pay respects to the victims of the Love Parade stampede in Duisburg last month. The large-scale Zurich event was held only three weeks after 21 people died and hundreds injured when panic broke out at the only entrance to the parade grounds in the German city.…

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Chinese film takes top prize at Locarno

This content was published on Aug 15, 2010 Winter Vacation tells the story of four teenagers hanging out in a village in northern China. Last year, the screenplay won a prize in the festival’s Open Doors section. The SFr90,000 ($85,870) Locarno prize was awarded on Saturday evening. It will be divided evenly between the film’s director and producer. The four teenagers in the…

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Driver faces $1,000,000 speeding fine

This content was published on Aug 13, 2010 A driver who hit headlines around the world for getting clocked in Switzerland at 290km/h (180mph) faces a world record fine of a million francs.

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Trio Oberdiessbach und Äschlenälpler: Ä chli vo auem (Just A Bit Of Everything)

This content was published on Aug 13, 2010 Yes Sir Äschlenälpler

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Gunning it

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Street Parade will remember Duisburg victims

This content was published on Aug 13, 2010 Organisers are confident about safety at the Zurich techno music festival – which includes 30 love mobiles and could see up to 900,000 partygoers – and have rejected claims that there will not be enough space for all the visitors to the event. The normally staid banking city will become a riot of colour and…

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Quality journalism in Switzerland is “eroding”

This content was published on Aug 13, 2010 The drop in quality is also due to the disastrous financial situation of many publishers, the Center for Research on the Public Sphere and Society said in its report on the Swiss media, published on Friday. Shrinking budgets and the shift to a culture where the public expects news and information to be free of…

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Orlando Geremia Schüpbach – ORIGINAL

This content was published on Aug 13, 2010 350 CharactersArte BecoOrlando Geremia Schüpbach

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Niggli finds her way again to victory

This content was published on Aug 13, 2010 The three-time Swiss sportswoman of the year finished more than two minutes ahead of local athlete, Marianne Andersen, at the competition in Trondheim, Norway. Emma Claesson of Sweden won the bronze. “I won the race so you can call it a perfect race,” Niggli said after her performance. “It is special to win the long…

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More Swiss money for Pakistan flood victims

This content was published on Aug 12, 2010 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is to receive SFr2 million of this, to add to the SFr1 million it has already received. The other SFr500,000 will go to the Pakistan emergency fund of the United Nations World Food Programme, doubling the Swiss contribution, ministry spokesman Georg Farago said. On Wednesday the UN…

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