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US and Finland take opening games

This content was published on Apr 25, 2009 Finland dominated Norway 5-0 in Zurich while the US faced a more difficult match-up against Latvia in the capital, Bern, claiming victory with a score of 4-2. Latvia, ranked 11th, opened scoring early in the first period against the US when Herberts Vasiljevs beat goalie Robert Esche. Jack Johnson of the sixth-ranked US squad was…

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Anti-EU group warns of “creeping” integration

This content was published on Apr 25, 2009 The Campaign for an Independent and Neutral Switzerland held its annual meeting in Bern on Saturday, calling on the government to defend the country’s interests. The group, connected to the rightwing Swiss People’s Party, is claiming a “creeping EU accession of Switzerland”. It wants Switzerland to cancel bilateral treaties with the 27-nation political union. The…

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Malaria battle needs joint action

This content was published on Apr 25, 2009 More than a century has passed since scientists figured out what causes the disease, but malaria is far from being eradicated, infecting around 250 million people every year and killing one million, mainly children. To coincide with World Malaria Day on Saturday, the Swiss Malaria Group (SMG) has called on all agencies involved in malaria…

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Switzerland vs France liveblog

This content was published on Apr 24, 2009 To participate in our next liveblog, message @swiss_slapshot. Your tweets will appear on our hockey dossier.

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Switzerland edge France 1-0 in hockey opener

This content was published on Apr 24, 2009 Despite the victory, the French squad held the Swiss team, playing before a crowd of 11,417 people in Europe’s largest arena, to a surprisingly close game on Friday evening. A raucous crowd of flag-waving Swiss failed to embolden their jittery national squad against the 19th-ranked French, who ought to thank goalie Fabrice Lhenry for keeping…

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Anti-racism summit ends with a small miracle

This content was published on Apr 24, 2009 The carefully drafted anti-racism declaration shows it is still possible to secure international consensus over such an extremely sensitive issue, they claim. The week-long Durban Review Conference, dubbed Durban II, started on a sour note on Monday when Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israel a “totally racist regime” and accused the West of using the…

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Russia and Canada take first games

This content was published on Apr 24, 2009 Russia defeated Germany on Friday afternoon with a score of 5-0. Canada overcame Belarus by a score of 6-1. Oleg Saprykin, Ilya Kovalchuk, Sergei Zinoviev, Anton Kuryanov, and Danis Zaripov scored for Russia. The team finished the game with 40 shots on goal while goalie Ilya Bryzgalov stopped 20 attempts at the PostFinance Arena in…

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Identity of abandoned woman is determined

This content was published on Apr 24, 2009 Police inquiries discovered that the woman, suffering from cancer, had been living illegally for some time at an acquaintance’s home in the nearby town of Kreuzlingen. Authorities at Münsterlingen Hospital, where she was found emaciated and wrapped in a blanket, say the woman’s condition remains serious but stable. It is still unclear how the woman…

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Minaret initiative divides opinion

This content was published on Apr 24, 2009 Around 37 per cent of respondents said they agreed with the ban, while nearly 50 per cent came out against the proposal, according to a survey published on Friday. A further 14 per cent of those interviewed said they were undecided. The poll was carried out among 1,000 people in the German and French-speaking regions…

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This content was published on Apr 24, 2009

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