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Colombia accuses Swiss of funding rebels

This content was published on Apr 22, 2006 The foreign ministry refused to comment, while a non-governmental group rejected the accusations as unfounded. Vice-president Francisco Santos told a news conference in Bogotá on Friday that the Swiss foreign ministry’s Agency for Development for Cooperation (SDC) funded an aggressive campaign against the Colombian authorities. Officials added the two Swiss church charities, Lenten Fund and…

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Hellvetic Rock II

This content was published on Apr 22, 2006

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Expert damns Church response to Judas gospel

This content was published on Apr 22, 2006 Both the Catholic and Anglican Churches have been quick to dismiss the text, which depicts Judas as one of Jesus’s favoured disciples and not the reviled figure of the New Testament. In his Easter Day sermon, the Archbishop of Canterbury belittled the Gospel of Judas as similar to other works from the “more eccentric fringes”…

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Swiss bagpipe undergoes modest revival

This content was published on Apr 22, 2006 “The folk music that is popular in [the southern Italian-speaking canton of] Ticino is not authentic. It’s only played for tourists,” Garbani explains. “That’s why I decided to begin my research into Ticino musical traditions 25 years ago.” “I interviewed elderly people, and came upon many traditional songs. And people told me that the old…

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How long can Tamiflu hold out against bird flu?

This content was published on Apr 21, 2006 The mathematical model used by researchers at Zurich’s Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) to plot the likely course of an outbreak showed that resistance is more likely if drugs are used as prophylactics. The study, commissioned by the respected journal, Science, used data from previous influenza outbreaks combined with recent information about bird flu and…

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Poultry ban could be lifted “within weeks”

This content was published on Apr 21, 2006 The news came as the authorities in Geneva announced an end to bird flu surveillance zones around Lake Geneva, but similar measures remain in place around Lake Constance in the north of the country. “We expect a decision from the government at the end of April or the start of May,” Federal Veterinary Office spokesman…

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Swiss target Spanish tourists

This content was published on Apr 21, 2006 Switzerland Tourism is opening an office in Barcelona to turn this surge in interest – the biggest shown by any European country – into trips and overnight stays. At present the tourist office has four priority markets: China, India, Russia and the United Arab Emirates. “In the first semester of 2005 our call centre received…

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Ukraine

This content was published on Apr 21, 2006 Following in the footsteps of Swiss aid officials in Ukraine, swissinfo travelled through a nation trying hard to leave the past behind. (Pictures: Luigi Jorio, swissinfo)

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George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band: Tiger By The Tail

This content was published on Apr 20, 2006

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