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Locarno pays tribute to American actor Reilly

This content was published on Aug 9, 2010 Locarno showed the European premiere of his new film Cyrus on the Piazza Grande on Saturday night and is hosting a tribute to him throughout the week. “What I find really impressive is that you can assemble 8,000 people in the Piazza for a film,” Reilly told a news conference in the Ticino town a…

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“It’s great to see each other again”

This content was published on Aug 9, 2010 The group of 14 to 19 year olds attending the camp in La Punt come from all over the world: South Africa, Ghana, Mexico, Hong Kong, Britain, France, the United States and New Zealand. Some already know each other from previous camps. Lidia and Sabrina went to school together in South Africa. “But Sabrina now…

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Nid zem lose: Apero im Conti

This content was published on Aug 9, 2010 Dr Walti in der Bibliothek, Schottisch Nid zem lose

Calmy-Rey urges dialogue over National Stud

This content was published on Aug 8, 2010 Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey spoke to the nearly 60,000 people attending the festival in the western town of Saignelégier about the government’s plans to cut funding for the national breeding centre, the National Stud in Avenches. Calmy-Rey called on breeders to present solutions to save the centre, considered vital if the Franches-Montagnes horse is to…

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Swiss pioneers’ barns honoured in US

This content was published on Aug 7, 2010 These monuments to a vanished, rural way of life will be accessible to visitors through guided tours, both in reality and through the web, in a unique, international project. From canton Graubünden to Tennessee in the United States, via Virginia and Ontario – and not forgetting Bird-in-Hand, in the middle of Amish country in Pennsylvania…

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Murdered medical workers from Geneva organisation

This content was published on Aug 7, 2010 IAM said the team members had been working in Nuristan province at an eye camp, and were returning to Kabul when they were murdered. Taliban has claimed responsibility. The organisation told the AFP news agency that the dead included at least six American doctors, one Briton, a German and two Afghans. Their bodies were found…

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Jews and Arabs break ice on Mont Blanc

This content was published on Aug 6, 2010 The group, which reached the summit on Wednesday, was brought together by the Lausanne-based organisation Coexistences, which works to encourage and support dialogue and mutual understanding between the two communities. “I think this region of the world doesn’t need political militantism,” Massimo Sandri, president of Coexistences, told swissinfo.ch. “In fact I think that kind of…

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“Everything is broken and lost”

This content was published on Aug 5, 2010 Sher Zaman, a Pakistani who works for the Basel-based fair trade label, Step, has travelled through the region and spoke to swissinfo.ch about the need for international help. The Swiss foreign ministry said on Thursday it was considering increasing aid to the ravaged nation where 1,500 people have died. Thousands are homeless; tens of thousands…

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Pakistan’s flood

This content was published on Aug 5, 2010 Massive damage to streets, railways, homes and bridges. Drinking water is contaminated, threatening the health of many people, particularly the old and the young. More than three million people are believed to be affected by the flooding in northwestern Pakistan.

Google Street View hits the road again

This content was published on Aug 5, 2010 Federal data protection commissioner Hanspeter Thür has taken Google to court in a dispute over privacy protection in Google’s Street View picture map. An interim agreement between the two means that no pictures will be added to Street View or other applications until the Federal Administrative Court has given its decision. In May Thür explained…

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