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Racism body criticises anti-Germany feeling

This content was published on Mar 27, 2009 The body said on Friday it was particularly concerned with the reaction in some Swiss quarters to recent criticism of the country’s banking secrecy laws by Germany’s finance minister, Peer Steinbrück. After Steinbrück compared the Swiss to Indians running scared from the cavalry, parliamentarian Thomas Müller of the centre-right Christian Democratic Party said the finance…

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Hockey history

This content was published on Mar 27, 2009 For several decades in the 1900s the tournament, which now includes 16 teams, was incorporated into the Winter Olympic Games. During Switzerland’s glory years, the country won nine medals but never a gold. It has not finished on the podium since 1953.

Formula One rookie gears up for success

This content was published on Mar 27, 2009 Buemi has come a long way since whizzing round go-karting circuits and now finds himself on the same starting grid – at glamourous locations around the world – as Fernando Alonso, Kimi Räikkönen and defending world champion Lewis Hamilton. “I’m looking forward to a great season, but we have to stay realistic since it promises…

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Europe hungers after Swiss singer

This content was published on Mar 27, 2009 The 25-year-old singer-songwriter gave swissinfo this email interview ahead of her concert at the Cully Jazz Festival near Lausanne, which runs from Friday until April 4. From her humble beginnings on her lo-fi album “Sketches on Sea” in 2006 to Switzerland’s best-kept secret to entering the Swiss charts at number one with “Monday’s Ghost” in…

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Ritschi: Probier mi doch mal us

This content was published on Mar 27, 2009

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Soul-searching in the Americas

This content was published on Mar 27, 2009 Henri de Buren turned his back on life in 19th century Switzerland to experience the Americas first-hand. His travels are to be retold in The Grand Tour, a documentary being filmed by his great-great-grandson Jean-François de Buren. Jessica Dacey reports. (Photos: J-F. de Buren)

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Eiger claims two more victims

This content was published on Mar 27, 2009 It was the first tragedy this year on the 3,970 metre high Eiger – a mountain regarded as one of Switzerland’s most dangerous and whose name, some people think, means “ogre”. Poor weather thwarted the recovery of the body of the other man, who had attempted with his friend to scale the peak’s notorious north…

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Rush hour trains grind to a halt

This content was published on Mar 26, 2009 Workers laboured through the night to fix the problem and restore service on Friday morning. Commuters may still experience some delays, the Swiss Federal Railways said. In total, about 1,700 trains were affected, including the main line services between Zurich and Bern and Zurich and Basel, which had to be diverted. The incident happened just…

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25 Characters – FUMETTO 2009

This content was published on Mar 26, 2009 350 CharactersIn den folgenden Jahren ist Fumetto kontinuierlich gewachsen. Weitere Schauplätze und Austragungsorte wurden gefunden, die Festival-Palette wurde erweitert und Fumetto suchte die Schnittstellen zu comic-verwandten Ausdrucksformen wie Grafik, Literatur und Journalismus. Aus dem Lokalen heraus wurde das Festival national und international ausgerichtet und aus Luzerner Comix-Festival ist seit 2003 das Internationale Comix-Festival Luzern geworden.…

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Sir Colin: The Album

This content was published on Mar 26, 2009

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