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Doctor sentenced over assisted suicides

This content was published on Jul 6, 2007 Peter Baumann was given a three-year prison sentence, two years of which are suspended, by Basel criminal court on Friday. Switzerland has one of the most relaxed laws on assisted suicide in Europe, but calls have been mounting for the practice to be subject to more supervision. Swiss law tolerates assisted suicide where the act…

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Assisted suicide makes waves here and abroad

This content was published on Jul 6, 2007 Domestically, there have been calls on the government to regulate assisted suicides and, abroad, a British pro-euthanasia group has raised doubts about the Swiss model. Since it was set up in 1998, the Dignitas foundation, based in Zurich, has helped 76 Britons commit suicide. It is the only organisation of its kind in Switzerland open…

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Police hunt gang in historical watch heist

This content was published on Jul 5, 2007 The robbery was carried out around 8.30am Thursday at the Girard-Perregaux Museum in La Chaux-de-Fonds in northwest Switzerland. Local police have described the theft as “an incalculable loss for Swiss watch heritage”. Two men posing as deliverymen overpowered, bound and gagged a woman who was cleaning the museum, which belongs to luxury watchmaker Girard-Perregaux, said…

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Alinghi to face bigger, faster challenge

This content was published on Jul 5, 2007 The Swiss champions also announced on Thursday that the entire team would travel to Geneva on Sunday to celebrate retaining yachting’s biggest prize. The “Homecoming Tour” will then continue to Zurich, Bern and Lugano. America’s Cup organisers ACM said that the new yachts would be 27.4 metres long, considerably longer than the 24-metre boats that…

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Heavenly weather

This content was published on Jul 5, 2007 Benedictine brother Konrad is following in the footsteps of the mediaeval meteorologists. (SF/swissinfo.ch)

Casinos aim to take the pain out of gambling

This content was published on Jul 5, 2007 Five years after the first Swiss casinos opened for business, almost 17,000 people have been banned from playing in the country’s 19 gambling houses, mostly for addiction reasons. Casinos have a legal obligation to work to prevent gambling addiction. swissinfo visited a casino on a midweek afternoon to see the everyday players the law aims…

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Ländlerfründe Walopsee: Aes motoret!

This content was published on Jul 5, 2007

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Napoleon love letter creates sparks at auction

This content was published on Jul 4, 2007 London auction house Christie’s said the total price bid for items from the collection of the late Albin Schram, a wealthy Austrian banker who lived in the Swiss city of Lausanne, was $7,730,128 – double the pre-sale estimate. The love letter is one of only three known to have survived from the French emperor’s passionate…

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swissinfo confirmed as voice abroad

This content was published on Jul 4, 2007 The cabinet said it would contribute more than SFr20 million ($16.5 million) for the next five years to swissinfo and to support agreements between the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) and international broadcasters TV5 and 3Sat. The “performance agreement” announced on Wednesday defines the international activities of the SBC and which of its services will receive…

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Alinghi puts wind in sails of Swiss press

This content was published on Jul 4, 2007 Alinghi’s successful defence of the Cup – and the fact that the boat represented a landlocked nation – was also cause for comment in the international press. The French-language Tribune de Genève filled its front page with a picture of a victorious Ernesto Bertarelli, the team’s billionaire owner, hoisting the Auld Mug and a single…

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