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Swiss join in call for action against Aids

This content was published on Aug 13, 2006 The slogan of this year’s meeting, “Time to deliver” underscores a widely felt sense of urgency and frustration with present efforts to tackle the disease. In all, 24,000 experts, health workers, activists, politicians and people living with HIV/Aids have gathered in Toronto for the six-day 16th International Aids Conference, which started on Sunday. “It’s the…

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Locarno put squarely on world film map

This content was published on Aug 13, 2006 The weather behaved, the artistic director collapsed, a jury member co-wrote the winning film – it will be a tough act to follow next year. The festival started in style, if not substance, with Miami Vice – not Miami Vic as some of the foreign news reports had it – although it was a shame…

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Swiss marathon man wins silver

This content was published on Aug 13, 2006 The other big Swiss hopeful – Alexander Martinez in the men’s triple jump – failed to live up to expectations. Röthlin completed the race in 2 hours 11 minutes and 50 seconds, 18 seconds behind Italy’s Stefano Baldini. Julio Rey of Spain came third (2:12:37). It was the best result in Röthlin’s career so far.…

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Top diplomat to US champions open diplomacy

This content was published on Aug 13, 2006 In an interview with swissinfo, Urs Ziswiler talks about his experience of bilateral relations since being appointed to the US post three months ago. The ambassador is not only in charge of ensuring diplomatic ties between Washington and Bern but also represents the interests of Iran and Cuba towards the US. Ziswiler’s previous diplomatic postings…

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Das Fräulein picks up the Golden Leopard

This content was published on Aug 12, 2006 But the choice of the German/Swiss co-production, which looks at three generations of women from the former Yugoslavia living in Switzerland, was not without controversy. It emerged on Wednesday that Barbara Albert, one of the jury, had co-written Das Fräulein with Staka and hadn’t considered it necessary to alert anyone to the fact. Albert stepped…

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Switzerland welcomes UN resolution on Lebanon

This content was published on Aug 12, 2006 The resolution, adopted unanimously, authorizes 15,000 UN peacekeepers to help Lebanese troops take control of south Lebanon. A ceasefire is expected to come into effect on Monday. The attacks by “both sides must be stopped and a resumption of hostilities prevented in order to put an end to the suffering of the civilian population,” the…

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Rain fails to dampen Zurich Street Parade

This content was published on Aug 12, 2006 Even though it was about 200,000 fewer than last year, the turnout is better than organisers had expected. “We never thought so many people would come when we saw the weather forecast,” said festival spokesman, Stefan Epli. At the start of the parade, temperatures reached only 16 degrees. Around 30 “Love Mobiles” playing house and…

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Swiss abstain from human rights vote on Lebanon

This content was published on Aug 12, 2006 It came ahead of a resolution adopted by the UN Security Council seeking a “full cessation” of violence between Israel and Hezbollah. A majority of 27-11 came out in support of the Human Rights Council’s resolution, proposed by Islamic states, which made no mention of Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel. Speaking to swissinfo after the vote,…

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Lucerne Festival

This content was published on Aug 11, 2006

Locarno gets its own da Vinci mystery

This content was published on Aug 11, 2006 Research by Italian historian Marino Viganò has convinced Carlo Pedretti, director of the Los Angeles-based Armand Hammer Center for Leonardo Studies, that da Vinci created the castle’s bastion. “There is a 95 per cent probability that the ravelin [a defensive outwork, or bastion] of Locarno is a brainchild of Leonardo,” Pedretti told a news conference…

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