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Red Cross launches Afghan prisoner videochats

This content was published on Jan 14, 2008 The Swiss-run International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced on Monday that together with the US military it had launched a system for video-teleconference calls. Before the video chats began on January 6, prisoners at Bagram Air Base were unable to talk to anyone outside the detention facility. The Red Cross is still urging…

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Albert Moeschinger (1897-1985)

This content was published on Jan 14, 2008 Albert Moeschinger Albert Moeschinger is considered one of the most gifted Swiss composers of the 20th century. His hometown Basel, where he was born, regards itself as melting-pot of various cultural influences due to sharing borders with Germany and France. This geographical position between different cultures may help to explain Moeschineger’s life-long odyssey through the…

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Federer has no worries about Australian Open

This content was published on Jan 13, 2008 Aiming for his 13th grand slam title, the Swiss tennis world number one opens against Argentina’s Diego Hartfield on Monday. In Friday’s draw for the year’s first grand slam title, Federer landed in the same half as No. 3 Novak Djokovic and four former Australian Open finalists. James Blake and Tomas Berdych are also in…

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Couchepin promotes health project in Egypt

This content was published on Jan 13, 2008 Switzerland is to donate SFr10 million ($9.1 million) over the next three years to provide X-ray equipment for 102 Egyptian hospitals. In a first phase that ended in 2006, Switzerland had invested SFr7 million to equip about 80 other hospitals and train staff. “If we did not have the Swiss aid, we would not be…

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Miller pips Cuche to defend Lauberhorn title

This content was published on Jan 13, 2008 Manuel Osborne-Paradis of Canada finished third on Sunday in an event carried out in perfect weather and skiing conditions. Miller finished the longest downhill run in the world (4.48 km) in a time of two minutes, 30.4 seconds and, as last year, Cuche finished runner-up, 0.65 of a second behind. It’s the second downhill victory…

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Wrestler floors them all in national TV show

This content was published on Jan 13, 2008 Abderhalden, aged 28, took 20.38 per cent of the telephone votes, ahead of the director of the new James Bond film, Marc Forster, and Ernesto Bertarelli, head of the yachting team Alinghi, which successfully defended the America’s Cup in 2007. “Alpine wrestling is popular, tradition is in,” commented the victor of last year’s federal wrestling…

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Grange pulls off a rare double in Wengen

This content was published on Jan 12, 2008 The best-placed Swiss was Daniel Albrecht who finished in seventh place, while his compatriots Marc Gini came 15th and Marc Berthod 24th. Grange, who won the super combination event on Friday, became the first skier since Frenchman Jean-Claude Killy in 1967 to win both events in Wengen. The 23-year-old Grange led after the first leg…

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Ski lift accident raises safety questions

This content was published on Jan 12, 2008 The Federal Transport Office has warned that 400 cableways could have to take supplementary measures to ensure their safety. Preliminary investigations indicate that the accident on the Fallboden lift in the Jungfrau area earlier this month was triggered by strong winds. A cable seems to have jumped off a guidewheel on one of the support…

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A blot on the scientific landscape

This content was published on Jan 11, 2008 Despite the test being little more scientific than palm reading, the display, which marks the 50th anniversary of the university’s Rorschach archive, offers a fascinating insight into the psychiatrist’s life and work as well as an influential chapter in the history of psychology. “Rorschach was a fascinating personality because he was enormously open towards everything.…

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Airport security given good marks

This content was published on Jan 11, 2008 But experts from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) called for clarifications on security standards in basic documents of the Federal Civil Aviation Office. The office pledged to implement the suggestions by the United Nations body which defines security norms around the world. ICAO experts visited Switzerland in October to check the application of the…

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