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Art thieves target more homes than museums

This content was published on Jun 30, 2009 But a Zurich conference has heard that valuable works are far safer on public view than in private homes despite the biggest heist in Swiss history, at the Bührle Collection, which took place in February last year. Statistics reveal that only 11 out of 846 stolen art works were taken from museums in Switzerland in…

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Planned shredding of nuclear papers “illegal”

This content was published on Jun 30, 2009 The committee called on the government to seek an acceptable solution with justice authorities for about 100 pages of evidence linked to an investigation of three Swiss engineers suspected of smuggling nuclear weapons technology. “There is no international obligation to destroy the documents,” said Hansruedi Stadler, a Christian Democratic senator, on Tuesday. The committee said…

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Online pornography cases fall

This content was published on Jun 30, 2009 The Swiss Cybercrime Coordination Unit said serious pornography cases dropped from 2,085 in 2007 to 1,047 in 2008. Officials said better filters could be behind the decrease. But there was an increase in fake commercial offers and so-called “phishing” spam in the last year, according the service’s annual report published on Tuesday. Phishing is the…

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Papers see Madoff sentence as just the beginning

This content was published on Jun 30, 2009 The country’s major newspapers mostly expounded on the symbolic nature of the enormous sentence that US District Judge Denny Chin handed to financial criminal Bernard Madoff for swindling $13 billion from more than 13,000 clients since 1995. Total investments in his Ponzi scheme are estimated at $64.8 billion. Indeed, even Chin himself said the sentence…

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Wawrinka falls to Murray at Wimbledon

This content was published on Jun 30, 2009 Murray won with a score of 2-6, 6-3, 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 in what was the first match played under the new translucent roof on Monday evening. “I tried everything but it was not enough,” Wawrinka said of the almost four-hour game. “It was very special, a nice atmosphere. It was very nice to play with…

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Authorities issue H1N1 checks for travellers

This content was published on Jun 29, 2009 People entering Switzerland can be medically examined if necessary, authorities said on Monday. Airlines and other companies that facilitate cross-border passenger transport will be required to release passenger data if authorities suspect somebody is carrying the virus. Passengers will be given a questionnaire about their health and the tests will be non-invasive. Authorities are also…

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Interior minister to sport new title

This content was published on Jun 29, 2009 Couchepin will represent La Francophonie, the 56-member international organisation of countries that are connected to the French language or to French culture. He retires from Swiss politics in October. Couchepin replaces Jean-Pierre Raffarin, the former prime minister of France, who represented the group in Beijing, in 2008. The decision was announced on Monday after Couchepin…

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On form Federer reaches Wimbledon quarterfinal

This content was published on Jun 29, 2009 Söderling, who lost to Federer in the French Open final in early June, was outclassed by the second seed, who won 6-4 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (7-5). “I think today was just a serving contest, not too many rallies,” Federer said afterwards. “Today was hard to get through. Robin served great, thank god he served a…

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Breakaway Catholic society inducts priests

This content was published on Jun 29, 2009 The order, based in canton Valais, has been marginalised for challenging the decisions of the Vatican II Council that sought to modernise the Catholic Church. Despite Vatican objections, the order still ordains priests each year on June 29. In a solemn ceremony attended by 2,500 faithful, Bishop Bernard Fellay said he was “astonished at the…

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ART: Salon, Séances, Secessions

This content was published on Jun 29, 2009 Works by Albert von Keller (1844–1920), a Munich artist with Swiss roots who was a co-founder of the Munich Secession. Keller’s art constitutes a detailed account of the Wilhelmian and Belle Époque society with its elegant polite ladies as well as lending visual form to a range of occult phenomena.

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