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Football hooligans riot in Basel

This content was published on Sep 18, 2009 Local authorities said 11 people were arrested on Thursday and three police officers were slightly injured. Nine were apprehended before the game. Police had prepared for violence outside the St Jakob stadium with a “massive” presence, they said. Officers from cantons Basel City, Basel Country, Aargau and Bern had been brought in, according to the…

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Ländlertrio Wilti-Gruess: Zum Zää-jährigä

This content was published on Sep 17, 2009

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Parliament endorses calls for cabinet reform

This content was published on Sep 17, 2009 The House on Thursday unanimously approved a Senate motion aimed at boosting the efficiency of the cabinet to focus on strategic issues and improve cooperation between the seven ministries. Federal Chancellor Corina Casanova assured parliament that the cabinet would present its reform plans in the first half of next year. The motion, the brainchild of…

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NGOs call for tougher climate action

This content was published on Sep 17, 2009 A joint study published on Thursday by the Swiss Catholic Lenten Fund and Bread for All says Switzerland should go beyond its “modest” current target of reducing emissions by 20 per cent – the European average. The organisations said the bar for rich countries had to be higher than the norm. Their study says Switzerland…

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Middle East experts detail two-state future

This content was published on Sep 17, 2009 The Swiss-backed Geneva Initiative, an umbrella group of Israelis and Palestinians, presented its detailed “recipe” for resolving the conflict in Tel Aviv on Tuesday in a manual more than 400 pages long. Created by teams of experts, former negotiators and officials, the issues include water rights, security arrangements, the fate of Israeli settlements in the…

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Federer to play in Davis Cup

This content was published on Sep 16, 2009 “I never had any doubt about coming,” said Federer, wearing the red jacket of the Swiss team after arriving in Genoa, Italy on Wednesday. “The doubts were created by others. It certainly wasn’t me.” The Swiss team had left Federer the option to decide on his plans until after the US Open. Winning the Davis…

Radicals hold on to second cabinet seat

This content was published on Sep 16, 2009 The embattled centre-right Radical in the end succeeded comfortably in fending off a challenge by the rival Christian Democrats for a second seat in the seven-member government. It took four rounds of voting in a joint session of the House of Representatives and the Senate before the senator from the French-speaking canton of Neuchâtel won…

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Anti-pirate mission thrown into doubt

This content was published on Sep 16, 2009 On Wednesday the House turned down government plans to send up to 30 troops to take part in the European Union’s Atalanta operation in the Gulf of Aden. An alliance of the rightwing Swiss People’s Party, the Greens and some members of the centre-left Social Democrats voted against. The troops would help protect ships flying…

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ART: From Dürer to Gober

This content was published on Sep 16, 2009 The 101 master drawings from the Kupferstichkabinett Basel present works dating from 1400 to the present and include drawings by Holbein, Warhol, Beuys, Marden, Léger and Clement.

No surprises in cabinet election

This content was published on Sep 16, 2009 Burkhalter was elected in the fourth round of voting in parliament, gaining the support of 129 out of 245 members. Burkhalter comes from the French-speaking canton of Neuchâtel, which he has represented in the Senate since 2007. He sat in the House of Representatives from 2003 to 2007, and was a member of the Neuchâtel…

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