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Cabinet allocates funds for road and rail

This content was published on Nov 11, 2009 The funds for two separate projects are to be staggered over several phases and remain subject to approval by parliament, Transport Minister Moritz Leuenberger told journalists on Wednesday. The Zurich and Lausanne regions stand to benefit from efforts to reduce congestion on motorways, while more than 20 towns and cities across the country, including Basel,…

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Teenage footballers extend African dream

This content was published on Nov 11, 2009 This is a crowning achievement for Hansruedi Hasler, who has been responsible for nurturing young Swiss players for 15 years and is retiring at the end of the year. While the “big boys” have booked their tickets for next year’s World Cup in South Africa, the U17 team is already sampling African hospitality. On Thursday…

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Alberto Giacometti in Geneva

This content was published on Nov 11, 2009 This is the first important retrospective of his work in French-speaking Switzerland and comprises over 70 sculptures, 20 paintings, as well as objects, drawings, notebooks and photographs. Two rooms are devoted to his Geneva period.

Giacometti and his Geneva crisis

This content was published on Nov 11, 2009 A major retrospective, with a special focus on his little-known Geneva period (1941-1946), is on show at Geneva’s Rath Museum. The exhibition, which spans his entire career, puts the spotlight on the 1935-1946 transitional period from his Surrealist objects to the slender, elongated figures he produced after the war. At the time Giacometti underwent one…

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G.F. Händel: Six Concerti Grossi Op. 3. Kammerorchester Basel, Julia Schröder, dir

This content was published on Nov 10, 2009 Kammerorch. Basel; J. Schröder, dir

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Alinghi settles on Valencia for America’s Cup

This content was published on Nov 10, 2009 Geneva-based Alinghi released a statement on Tuesday saying it had written to a New York judge confirming the venue for sailing’s most prestigious race. The last America’s Cup in 2007 was also held in Valencia. But Alinghi left the door open to challenger BMW Oracle Racing, saying the California-based team could take up the offer…

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Is frog delicacy on its last legs?

This content was published on Nov 10, 2009 Every year the Swiss nibble away at 120 tons of frogs’ legs – 90 per cent of which are imported from Indonesia. After fur coats and foie gras, the Vaud Society for the Protection of Animals (SVPA) this month launched a new campaign across canton Vaud urging foodies in the French-speaking region to boycott the…

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ICRC worker abducted in Chad

This content was published on Nov 10, 2009 Laurent Maurice, an agronomist evaluating the recent harvest in the area, was abducted from the village of Kawa, near the border with Sudan. It was the second kidnapping of ICRC staff in the region in the past month. The Geneva-based humanitarian body on Tuesday said it had no indication of who the abductors might be…

Swiss aid lacks coherence, OECD says

This content was published on Nov 10, 2009 The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recommends that Switzerland should aim for 0.5 per cent of its Gross National Income (GNI) for aid despite financial constraints. Eckhard Deutscher of the OECD Assistance Committee, who presented the findings of the report in Bern on Monday, listed six positive aspects and six critical points. Switzerland…

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