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Montreux festival welcomes jazzed up results

This content was published on Jul 15, 2006 Organisers say that not only are visitor numbers up, but the festival’s finances are in better shape as well. Speaking on Friday, the penultimate day of the festival, the president and director of the festival, Claude Nobs and François Carrard, said the results for this year were “very positive”. The number of tickets sold has…

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Football clubs show hooligans red card

This content was published on Jul 14, 2006 The package will come into force on Wednesday, in time for the start of the new football season, and has been approved by the country’s top clubs. “We realised that it was particularly some visiting fans who were creating security problems,” said the football league’s security chief Thomas Helbling. Clubs will now be more responsible…

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Middle East faces new chapter of violence

This content was published on Jul 13, 2006 Arnold Hottinger, a Swiss expert on Middle East affairs, tells swissinfo that the violence is unlikely to end soon, and says the international community is partly to blame for failing to recognise Hamas as the democratically elected government of the Palestinian territories. On Thursday Israeli troops and aircraft pounded targets in southern Lebanon for a…

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Critics slam mild sentence for trafficker

This content was published on Jul 13, 2006 Women’s campaign group Fiz said the meagre punishment sent out the wrong message as all six members of a trafficking ring walked free from a Zurich court on Wednesday. The prosecution proved five out of 74 alleged counts of human trafficking, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, and 25 counts of…

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Malcolm Braff Trio

This content was published on Jul 13, 2006

Chanson Moderne: Nimm mir die Zeit

This content was published on Jul 13, 2006

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Switzerland and US step up anti-terror fight

This content was published on Jul 12, 2006 Swiss Justice Minister Christoph Blocher and US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales signed the accord in Washington on Wednesday. The accord, which was approved by the Swiss cabinet at the beginning of May, covers combating terrorism and its financing. It is designed to replace a secret treaty signed in 2002 which focused on judicial aid for…

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US “u-turn” on detainees wins guarded welcome

This content was published on Jul 12, 2006 But Andrew Clapham, a professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, warns that other issues regarding their legal situation remain unresolved. On Tuesday the Pentagon announced that all detainees in US military custody around the world were entitled to protection under Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions of 1949. The article…

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Holle whisky is just the spirit

This content was published on Jul 12, 2006 Bader was the first Swiss to distil whisky when new alcohol laws came into force in 1999 and little could he suspect then that his whisky would make a name for itself way outside the borders of Switzerland. Holle used to be a dairy farm, which also produced fruit – mainly cherries – from its…

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Daniel Woodtli Trio and Lisette Spinnler: Djunsha

This content was published on Jul 12, 2006

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