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Rightwingers want nationwide vote on minarets

This content was published on May 3, 2007 The country’s Muslim community says it is stunned by what it sees as an “Islamophobic” move, which it warns will undermine already fragile relations. Those behind a people’s initiative, who include members of the county’s biggest political party, the Swiss People’s Party, have until November 2008 to raise the 100,000 signatures required to force a…

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Federer loses “battle of the surfaces”

This content was published on May 2, 2007 Two-time French Open winner Nadal defeated four-time Wimbledon champion Federer 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 on Wednesday in an absorbing match on the Spanish island where Nadal was born. The 20-year-old Spaniard, on a 72-match unbeaten streak on clay after notching up titles at Monte Carlo and Barcelona last month, adjusted better to the mixed surface in…

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Swiss attempts new route on Annapurna I

This content was published on May 2, 2007 This is Steck’s second biggest project this year after having set a new speed record on the infamous Eiger North Face in February, scaling the Swiss peak in three hours and 54 minutes. swissinfo’s Billi Bierling hooked up with Steck in the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, after he had come back from an acclimatisation trip in…

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Frühlingsboten. Jägerchörli Niedersimmental. Bläser Quintett Diana.

This content was published on May 2, 2007

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Russia takes centre stage at Geneva book fair

This content was published on May 2, 2007 This year’s fair, which runs until May 6, has attracted around 500 exhibitors and numerous activities are planned, including an exhibition dedicated to French artist Fernand Léger. The main spotlight will be on Russia, whose resurgent publishing industry issued more than 100,000 new titles in 2006 – a record year – of which one in…

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Boston exhibition faces up to human rights

This content was published on May 1, 2007 “The Face of Human Rights,” which has already been shown in over 30 cities around the world, is intended to make the viewer reflect on the necessity of these rights for all people. A year after the constitution of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council (HRC), the public will be able to view the exhibition…

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Ländlertrio Oeberhöckeler Schwarzenberg: Es donneret!

This content was published on May 1, 2007

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Capella Bernensis.

This content was published on May 1, 2007

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New Orleans footsteps

This content was published on May 1, 2007 On a recent visit to New Orleans, I learned from a memorial plaque in the lovely garden of the Beauregard-Keyes House that Anaïs Merle, née Philippon, wife of the Swiss consul to that city, had passed away there in 1847. Her husband, John A. Merle, from a Genevan Huguenot family, had been appointed to his…

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