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ART: Art 41 Basel

This content was published on Jun 16, 2010 The world’s premier international art show for Modern and contemporary works, Art Basel features nearly 300 leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa and representing over 2’500 artists.

Move to change adoption law for gay couples

This content was published on Jun 15, 2010 The petition says gay couples should have the same rights as heterosexual married couples. It states that the current system, in which couples in a civil partnership cannot adopt, prejudices the child. The law does not allow people in same-sex civil partnerships to adopt their partner’s child even if a parental relationship has already been…

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Diccon Bewes

This content was published on Jun 15, 2010

Greetings to the homeland

This content was published on Jun 15, 2010 This year the internet portal swissinfo.ch is marking its 75th anniversary. The Swiss shortwave service was set up in 1935 and was renamed Swiss Radio International (SRI) in 1978. Listeners from all over the world were very motivated to write in, as a look in our archive reveals. (Christoph Balsiger, swissinfo.ch)

Rights bodies warn over Kyrgyzstan “brutality”

This content was published on Jun 14, 2010 Navi Pillay said on Monday that the interethnic clashes appeared to be “orchestrated, targeted and well planned”. “It seems indiscriminate killings, including of children, and rapes have been taking place on the basis of ethnicity,” she said. She demanded that security forces be given “strict instructions to avoid unnecessary force”, and called on the neighbouring…

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Alexandre Nussbaum Acoustic Trio: Jungle City

This content was published on Jun 14, 2010 Pas de jazz à table Alexandre Nussbaum Trio

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Frei and Behrami to miss Spain match

This content was published on Jun 14, 2010 Both players will miss Wednesday’s group match in Durban, South Africa, because they have failed to recover in time from injuries, according to Switzerland’s coach Ottmar Hitzfeld on Monday. Frei, who plays for FC Basel, sprained his ankle a week ago, and Behrami, from English club West Ham, has been struggling with a thigh muscle…

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Released hostage “tired but happy”

This content was published on Jun 14, 2010 “This is a very moving moment for me,” he told journalists in Bern, with a slight quiver in his voice. He said he had been the victim of a conflict for which he was not responsible and thanked all those who had worked for his release. He added that he would need time to get…

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Learning English at the foot of Table Mountain

This content was published on Jun 14, 2010 swissinfo.ch met the three students at their school in the centre of Cape Town as the country is getting ready for the football World Cup. Marco Eberhard chose the Cape because he was keen on a new cultural experience. “I wanted to learn about a new culture. Most people go to Britain, the United States,…

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Geneva denies compensating Gaddafi

This content was published on Jun 14, 2010 The confusion arises from the publication in a Geneva newspaper of police photos of Hannibal Gaddafi, the son of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, which a Swiss court ruled in April to have been illegal. Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa said on Sunday that the Swiss justice authorities had decided that the family should receive nearly…

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