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Zünter: Abnormaunormau

This content was published on Jul 4, 2006

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Consuelo Giulianelli: Saeya – Saeya. Folk Songs and Harp Recital.

This content was published on Jul 4, 2006

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Swiss urge Israel to respect humanitarian law

This content was published on Jul 4, 2006 A foreign ministry statement said Bern was “deeply concerned” about Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip. Israel has used tanks, troops, gunboats and aircraft to attack the Gaza area over the past week to press militants to free a captured Israeli soldier. When it launched its first large-scale military action in Gaza since withdrawing from…

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Eiger danger

This content was published on Jul 3, 2006

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Festival is seriously fantastic

This content was published on Jul 2, 2006 Festival president Olivier Müller tells swissinfo how an event that started off slowly can now attract directors such George A. Romero of zombie fame and John Landis of the Blues Brothers. Starting a fantastic film festival in relatively quiet city such as Neuchâtel was probably not taking the easy road. Yet despite the initial handicaps,…

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They came, they saw, they recommended

This content was published on Jul 2, 2006 Like other English travellers they were drawn to the Alps but, unlike the others, they stayed to make a living: extolling the virtues of Switzerland in their guidebooks. An exhibition in the village of Bulle in canton Fribourg is showcasing, through the perspectives of Jean and Ernest Agard Evans, the passion English people had for…

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Memorial unveiled for air crash victims

This content was published on Jul 1, 2006 Seventy-one people died, 45 of them Russian children, when two jets collided over Swiss-controlled airspace. Two years later a distraught father murdered the air traffic controller on sole duty at the time. The 2004 killing and compensation claims from families of the victims have ensured the disaster has not faded from the public memory. A…

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Swiss encouraged by new human rights body

This content was published on Jun 30, 2006 However, the Swiss believe a lot remains to be done for the body to become completely operational – the greatest challenge being how to carry out human rights reviews of all 191 UN member states. “The Council has passed its first test, but it’s still a work in progress,” said Blaise Godet, Switzerland’s ambassador to…

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Montreux celebrates 40 years of all that jazz

This content was published on Jun 30, 2006 Featuring a stylistic mix of sounds – pop, jazz, avant-garde and rock – the festival, as always, bears the imprint of its charismatic founder, Claude Nobs. The 70-year-old Nobs has lined up a number of musical legends for this year’s concert series, including B.B. King, Al Jarreau, Van Morrison, Deep Purple, Sting and Bryan Adams.…

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