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Ruben case highlights child-kidnapping plight

This content was published on Nov 5, 2007 Each year the Swiss authorities deal with cases of international child abduction, which are mostly carried out by the mother following disputes over child custody. Former Swiss cycling champion Lucille Hunkeler is currently in jail in Rome accused of abducting Ruben four years ago after an Italian court denied her custody of the boy. Hunkeler,…

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English radio goes on the air nationwide

This content was published on Nov 5, 2007 Both WRS and a German-language news station – which was also launched on Monday – are part of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation’s strategy to promote Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB). WRS takes over from the commercial station, WRG, and is now fully integrated as a unit of the SBC, swissinfo’s parent company. The English station and…

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Religions aim for a closer relationship

This content was published on Nov 4, 2007 The first annual event promoting interreligious dialogue and trust runs until November 10. Over the past few weeks and months Switzerland’s Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, Jews, Bahá’ís and others have been preparing invitations for their neighbours. “The week’s programme is pretty much the usual one for each of the different religious communities but with a special…

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Rethinking the Celts

This content was published on Nov 2, 2007 An exhibition on Celtic religion, which has opened at the Laténium Museum in Neuchâtel in western Switzerland, draws on recent archaeological discoveries to cast light on what the Celts’ religious practices and beliefs really were. The exhibits on show date from around 450 BC, the start of the most famous Swiss Celtic site of all,…

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Swiss composer Hans Huber (1852-1921). Aura Quartett. Hans Joerg Fink, piano.

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Hingis retires amid cocaine allegations

This content was published on Nov 1, 2007 The Swiss tennis star, a five-times grand slam champion and former Wimbledon winner, denied using cocaine. “I have tested positive but I have never taken drugs and I feel one hundred per cent innocent,” she said at a news conference in Zurich. Hingis lost in the third round at Wimbledon this year to Laura Granville,…

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Campaigners want public access to all waterways

This content was published on Nov 1, 2007 Rives Publiques is battling to make Switzerland’s lakeshores and riverbanks accessible to the public. After a recent victory on Lake Zurich, it issued a nationwide ultimatum earlier this week to local authorities and lakeside landowners. The group has given them two years to return the waterfronts to the general public who, it claims, are entitled…

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Swiss funerals

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