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Further calls to blacklist paedophile priests

This content was published on Mar 28, 2010 Her statement came as a sexual abuse scandal sweeps the Catholic Church worldwide, with Swiss police too investigating allegations that children were harmed by priests. “Whether perpetrators come from the civil or clerical world makes no difference. Both are subject to Swiss criminal law, with no ifs or buts,” Leuthard told the SonntagsZeitung and Le…

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Armed gang raids Swiss casino

This content was published on Mar 28, 2010 The prosecutor’s office said about ten masked men dressed in black arrived in two cars early Sunday and stormed the casino while 600 guests were inside. One man smashed the front door with a sledgehammer while the others ran inside with machine guns and pistols, according to officials. The men spoke French and ordered the…

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Federer advances in Miami

This content was published on Mar 28, 2010 The Swiss star breezed past Nicolas Lapentti 6-3, 6-3 in little more than an hour on Saturday, using ten aces and winning 87 per cent of his first serve points. “I’m relieved I’m through the first match,” said Federer won the tournament in 2005 and 2006. Defending champion Andy Murray was eliminated by American Mardy…

Sign of solidarity with Muslims

This content was published on Mar 27, 2010 The Association for a Tolerant and Open-minded Switzerland said the petition was a sign of solidarity with Muslims in Switzerland. The signatures, collected mainly via the internet, were handed over to a Muslim youth organisation, Ummah, in Zurich on Saturday. Nearly 58 per cent of voters in November approved a proposal by the rightwing and…

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Alinghi and Oracle end dispute

This content was published on Mar 26, 2010 The agreement comes a month and a half after the Oracle trimaran, owned by American software tycoon Larry Ellison, routed defending champion Alinghi of Switzerland in Valencia, Spain. In the settlement announced on Friday, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Yacht Club, which backs BMW Oracle Racing, said it would drop its breach of fiduciary duty claim…

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Spain says end to Swiss-Libyan crisis near

This content was published on Mar 26, 2010 Zapatero, speaking on the sidelines of a European Union summit in Brussels, said Spain’s foreign minister, Miguel Angel Maratinos, would travel to Libya on Saturday. Zapatero said Spain, which currently holds the EU presidency, was working hard on a solution. He added that he was pleased Switzerland on Thursday lifted visa restrictions on leading members…

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Bern seeks to smooth biometric passport concerns

This content was published on Mar 26, 2010 Such documents became law at the beginning of March following voters’ approval last year. But some Swiss living abroad have said the process of registering their data when applying for biometric passports is inefficient and complicated. Certain Swiss diplomatic representations are not yet geared up for taking the digital photographs and fingerprints now included in…

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5 x Carlo Brunner

This content was published on Mar 26, 2010 Ribary-Musig. Schottisch. (Erinnerung an Jost Ribary sen.) Carlo Brunner

Magic Mountains

This content was published on Mar 26, 2010 In earlier times, Switzerland was a mecca for health. On offer were therapies using the healing properties of the sun, pure Swiss air and raw food. An exhibition at the Swiss National Museum has documented this sometimes forgotten part of the country’s history.

UN council targets Swiss anti-minaret vote

This content was published on Mar 25, 2010 The Geneva-based Human Rights Council on Thursday narrowly passed a resolution condemning defamation of religion, which included reference to “Islamophobic” bans on building new minarets on mosques. In a tight vote, a coalition of 17 mostly western nations, including the United States and the Netherlands, opposed the resolution, but 20 states, including China, Cuba and…

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