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Switzerland to increase Kosovo rebuilding aid

This content was published on Jul 10, 2008 The statement from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) came one day ahead of a meeting to fund the former Serbian province, organised by the European Commission and to be held in Brussels on Friday. The Swiss commitment is part of an initiative for development and debt relief that newly independent Kosovo hopes…

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Voters to decide on new Vaud arts museum

This content was published on Jul 10, 2008 On Wednesday opponents of the SFr68 million ($65.8 million) new museum, planned to be built on the shores of Lake Geneva, handed in almost 18,000 signatures to force a local ballot on November 30. The current cantonal fine arts museum is housed alongside other cultural institutions in the cramped Renaissance-style Palais de Rumine building in…

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BAE corruption probe widens

This content was published on Jul 10, 2008 Three criminal investigations are now underway into possible money laundering linked to the firm, Jeannette Balmer of the federal prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday. Prosecutors launched an initial probe in 2007 over allegations that BAE used Swiss bank accounts to pay £60 million (SFr121.8 million) in bribes to officials from Saudi Arabia in return for…

Colombia puts a hold on Swiss Farc mediation

This content was published on Jul 10, 2008 The Colombian ambassador to Bern, Claudia Jimenez, made the announcement on Thursday in the Swiss capital after officially informing Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey. The decision comes a week after the Colombian government engineered the successful release of 15 hostages including Ingrid Betancourt, a former presidential candidate in that country. Colombia did leave the door open…

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Ski resort decision opens chink in property rules

This content was published on Jul 10, 2008 The justice ministry has approved most of a SFr100 million ($92.7 million) project, where suites and apartments can be sold to non-resident foreigners without special authorisation. Champéry, which is part of the Portes du Soleil ski area, suffers like many Swiss resorts from a proliferation of luxury holiday chalets, which are rarely rented out and…

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Gstaad stage fright for Wawrinka

This content was published on Jul 9, 2008 The Swiss number two beat on Wednesday compatriot, doubles partner and Davis Cup teammate Stéphane Bohli in two hours and 46 minutes and three hard-fought sets 7-6, 5-7, 7-6, to advance to the quarterfinals. He will now face Argentina’s Guillermo Cañas. Wawrinka, currently tenth in the ATP ranking, lost in a fourth-round match against Marat…

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Police conduct international drug sweep

This content was published on Jul 9, 2008 Bavarian state investigators, who coordinated the international operation, said on Wednesday the raids followed months of investigations launched after police became suspicious of online orders for GBL, a chemical found in industrial cleaners. The legal chemical can be used to manufacture GHB, a potent depressant sometimes called the date-rape drug. The GBL orders were placed…

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Donor sex may influence transplant success

This content was published on Jul 9, 2008 The findings, published in the British medical journal The Lancet, indicate that male recipients of female grafts have an increased risk of graft-versus-host disease. “Consideration of sex should be integrated into future prospective analyses and decisions on organ allocation,” the study’s authors wrote. Male recipients could probably profit from male kidneys, which contain higher nephron…

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Football fans get in the party mood

This content was published on Jul 9, 2008 Football fans get in the party mood.

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Short films about football

This content was published on Jul 9, 2008 Short films about football.

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