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Roche on track despite falling Tamiflu sales

This content was published on Oct 16, 2007 The Basel-based pharmaceuticals and diagnostics company reported nine-month sales of SFr33.95 billion ($28.77 billion). This is an increase of 12 per cent over the comparable period last year – twice the global market average. Revenues from Tamiflu for the year to date at SFr1.57 billion have gone down by only two per cent. “Revenue growth…

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Zu Fuss nach Santiago de Compostela. Original film music by Wädi Gysi.

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Del Ponte slams Serbia over war criminals

This content was published on Oct 15, 2007 The Swiss head of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia said Belgrade’s cooperation in efforts to hand over suspected war criminals remained insufficient. “I confirm the situation today is better than it was a year ago. However, it is still too slow and not yet sufficient,” Del Ponte told EU foreign ministers in…

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Rightwing claims success with “black sheep”

This content was published on Oct 15, 2007 The proposal has caused controversy at home and abroad in particular for its accompanying “black sheep” poster campaign, which has been accused of racism, depicting three white sheep kicking a black sheep out of the country. The initiative calls for any foreigner condemned of murder, rape, robbery, drug trafficking, burglary, human trafficking or social security…

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Tennis tournament opens without two stars

This content was published on Oct 15, 2007 Sharapova withdrew on Sunday – the eve of the tournament – with a lingering shoulder injury, while Hingis pulled out with a recurring hip problem that has ended her season. World number one Justine Henin from Belgium is top seed at the event, which is Europe’s most important indoor women’s tournament with prize money of…

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Swiss family drowns in Thai cave

This content was published on Oct 14, 2007 The victims were determined by Thai police on Sunday to be a Swiss couple and their two daughters, a British man and a ten-year-old German boy. The Swiss foreign ministry confirmed on Sunday evening that four Swiss had died. The group had been trekking through the Khao Sok National Park in Surathani province, 650km south…

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Swiss beat Austrians in “Euro host derby”

This content was published on Oct 13, 2007 The two teams played the friendly, which ended 3-1, in front of 22,500 fans at the Letzigrund stadium in Zurich, one of four arenas in Switzerland hosting the championship. With 237 days to go until the competition kicks off in Basel’s St Jakob’s Park on June 7, Switzerland – who like Austria have automatically qualified…

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Swiss image under scrutiny of foreign media

This content was published on Oct 13, 2007 The foreign ministry, which organised special election events for foreign correspondents in Switzerland, says occasional negative headlines are not likely to damage the positive perception of the country. A week ago police clashed with several hundred leftwing militants who stopped a march of supporters of the rightwing Swiss People’s Party. The People’s Party had been…

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Hosts on the ball over Euro 2008 security

This content was published on Oct 12, 2007 Speaking on Friday, security chiefs dismissed concerns that police handling of last Saturday’s violence in the Swiss capital, Bern, could cast a shadow over the tournament preparations. Representatives from the eight host cities for the event, which is being jointly held by Switzerland and Austria next June, have been meeting in Zurich for a two-day…

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Ländlerkönig Joseph Bachmann. Gemmer morn ufs Stanserhorn.

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Roche on track despite falling Tamiflu sales

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Zu Fuss nach Santiago de Compostela. Original film music by Wädi Gysi.

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Del Ponte slams Serbia over war criminals

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