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New-look hockey team take to the ice in Riga

This content was published on May 5, 2006 Nearly half of the squad that battled it out in the Turin Olympics in February have said they would not be taking part in Riga, claiming injury or exhaustion. Switzerland will face Italy in their first match of the tournament on Saturday. They are also up against Sweden and Ukraine in the group stage of…

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Valérie Winteler: La Flûte et le Silence

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Novartis wins $220 million US flu contract

This content was published on May 5, 2006 It is the first major order for Novartis since it took over California-based Chiron, the world’s fifth-biggest vaccine maker, last month. The order for a cell culture-derived vaccine was part of $1 billion handed out in research contracts to drugmakers. The US government is trying to encourage development of quicker and more efficient modes of…

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Visa scandal unlikely to harm Swiss-Pakistani relations

This content was published on May 5, 2006 Fauzia Abbas told swissinfo that both countries were working together to find out to what extent shady dealings were going on in the embassy’s visa section. Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey is currently in Pakistan to celebrate 40 years of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation’s (SDC) presence. The minister’s agenda includes visiting areas stricken…

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Publisher challenges Fifa book ban

This content was published on May 4, 2006 Last week a cantonal court issued a provisional ruling preventing the publication and distribution of “Foul! The Secret World of Fifa: Bribes, Vote Rigging and Ticket Scandals”. The book, written by British investigative journalist Andrew Jennings, has gone on sale worldwide – but not in Switzerland. Zurich-based Fifa sought and obtained a temporary injunction last…

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The first Swiss on the top of the world

This content was published on May 4, 2006 The Swiss team achieved the first ascent of the Lhotse peak and the second of Everest. The 11-man expedition broke three mountaineering records: on May 23 Ernst Schmied and Jürg Marmet became the second-ever team and the first Europeans to climb Everest (8,848 metres); one day later Hans Rudolf von Gunten and Dölf Reist were…

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Voie Sensible: Pensées

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Rey-Bellet’s husband is found dead

This content was published on May 3, 2006 The body of the 34-year-old man, who was the subject of national and international arrest warrants, was discovered on Wednesday evening near Ollon by a local person. Police told a news conference on Thursday that he had killed himself. A gun was found next to the body. Police stepped up their hunt for the private…

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Bern presents new treaty with US against terror

This content was published on May 3, 2006 The accord, which the government announced on Wednesday, is intended to replace a secret treaty signed in 2002 between the two countries. The cabinet had then approved a judicial aid agreement, known as the “Operative Working Arrangement”, after the terror attacks of September 2001 in the US. Judged in some quarters as too favourable to…

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Former Swiss Vatican Guards arrive in Rome

This content was published on May 3, 2006 Their arrival marks the start of the events celebrating the 500th anniversary of the founding of the “smallest army in the world”. Some 70 former guardsmen, from 25 to 76 years of age, covered the same arduous 720-kilometre route from Bellinzona to the Vatican City. The march – which took 28 days – followed the…

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