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Swiss taken to task over prisons affair

This content was published on Jan 31, 2006 At the opening of its Zurich office, HRW accused the Swiss authorities of failing to support a Council of Europe investigation into the existence of the camps. The Council of Europe investigation, headed by Swiss senator Dick Marty, focuses on reports that the US has established secret prison camps in countries including Poland and Romania…

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Cabinet “was not aware” of CIA flights

This content was published on Jan 31, 2006 Presenting its findings on Tuesday, the committee added that the government had no evidence of illegal flights or the existence of CIA detention centres in Europe. Only in one case was there any reason for suspicion, said Hans Hofmann, head of the sub-committee. This involved a plane which flew across Switzerland twice on the same…

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Claude Debussy, Dominique Hunziker, Maurice Ravel. Danses et souvenirs pour flûtes et harpe. Ensemble ‘les joueurs de flûte’.

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Hujässler: Schräägi Tüppä.

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Joining forces to find missing children

This content was published on Jan 31, 2006 Although runaways can very quickly become vulnerable to exploitation, it is still extremely rare for children to be abducted and harmed by strangers, police say. In November 2005, three children from one family, aged nine, seven and six, were unlawfully taken by their father from their home in Switzerland. The children – two boys and…

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Ramadan goes on the offensive against visa ban

This content was published on Jan 30, 2006 Tariq Ramadan is supporting a suit by a leading US civil liberties group, which argues the government is using anti-terrorism laws as “instruments of censorship”. Ramadan accepted a post at Indiana’s Notre Dame University in 2004, but soon afterwards had his visa revoked by the US authorities, which meant he had to resign the post.…

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Decline in HIV and Aids cases

This content was published on Jan 30, 2006 Cause for alarm, according to the Federal Health Office, was the rise in the number of homosexuals diagnosed with Aids. The office said of the declared cases in 2005, there were more than twice as many men (163) as women (71). In total, 298 cases of Aids were reported to the authorities in 2005 –…

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Federer clinches his seventh grand slam title

This content was published on Jan 29, 2006 The world number one beat unseeded Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus in four sets – to claim his seventh grand slam title on Sunday. Top seed Federer rebounded from a nervous start when he dropped the first set with a string of unforced errors. He even trailed 2-0 in the second set, before running away with…

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UN tells Swiss to get tough on war criminals

This content was published on Jan 28, 2006 The Geneva-based UN Committee on the Rights of the Child said on Friday that the Swiss also needed to do deal more sensitively with traumatised child refugees. Switzerland has come under fire over an amendment to the Military Penal Code, which states that suspected war criminals must have a “close link” to the country in…

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Orphaned Hollywood figures find Swiss refuge

This content was published on Jan 27, 2006 His 5,000-piece collection stashed away in a basement includes life-size aliens, Star Wars characters, Indiana Jones’s whip and Forrest Gump’s sneakers. “People travel to America to see movie sets and props but you can’t find much there – besides a couple of houses at Universal Studios,” says Roman Guettinger. I have obviously come to the…

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