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Swiss pilots take skydivers to new heights

This content was published on Oct 10, 2008 Since October 2 Ruedi Isenschmid and Henri Schurch have been transporting skydivers up 8,990m in their tiny plane. But jumps were suspended on Wednesday as a mark of respect to 18 people killed when a plane crashed at the nearby Lukla airport. Before the fatal crash, swissinfo caught up with Isenschmid at the dropzone. He…

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Nachkriegsklänge. Schweiz – Postwar Sounds. Switzerland. Works of Rolf Liebermann, Richard Strauss, Arthur Honegger. Lübeck Philharmonic. Roman Brogli-Sacher, conductor.

This content was published on Oct 9, 2008

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Vaud debates assisted suicide in nursing homes

This content was published on Oct 9, 2008 The assisted suicide organisation Exit, which already helps terminally ill patients in a number of nursing homes, has launched a people’s initiative to force a local debate on the issue – a Swiss first. Swiss law tolerates assisted suicide when patients commit the act themselves and helpers have no direct interest in their death. Switzerland…

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Corin Curschellas: Grischunit

This content was published on Oct 9, 2008 Olma Da Vali Corin Curschellas

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Swiss abstain in UN Kosovo vote

This content was published on Oct 9, 2008 However, Switzerland, like most of the 27 European Union states, withheld its vote on Wednesday, fearing a drawn-out legal investigation would slow Kosovo’s integration into the world community. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague is expected to take one to two years to issue its verdict. After the vote – 77 votes…

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Road deaths show sharp decline

This content was published on Oct 9, 2008 The Touring Club of Switzerland said only the Netherlands had a higher reduction in deaths between 1971 and 2006. Fatalities have been on the decline across western Europe, it said. Lowering the allowed blood-alcohol level to 0.5 parts per million combined with more testing of drivers could be the reason for the drop in deaths…

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Swiss countryside succumbs to urban sprawl

This content was published on Oct 8, 2008 The Swiss National Science Foundation study released on Wednesday revealed that since 1935 urban development has claimed as much of the Swiss landscape as it did during the previous 2,000 years. Geographers also found that the modern level of sprawl – inefficient, low-density development – in places like the Rhone Valley was proportionately identical to…

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Countryside succumbs to urban sprawl

This content was published on Oct 8, 2008 The Swiss National Science Foundation reports that regions including the southern part of canton Ticino and the southwestern canton of Valais are being increasingly affected by development. The study, which used new techniques to map human settlement in the country, was carried out by researchers at the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology at the Federal Institute…

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Bündner Trümpf.

This content was published on Oct 8, 2008

Court rejects ambulance sirens for animals

This content was published on Oct 8, 2008 The Court rejected the appeal of a veterinary practice that wanted to equip its all-terrain vehicles with blue lights and warning sirens. The judges ruled that animals should not be put on the same footing as humans, even if they also experienced suffering. Road safety had precedence over the speedy transport of creatures, they said.…

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