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Swiss mediator says Sudan should hold together

This content was published on Aug 3, 2005 At least 80 people have been killed and hundreds injured in fighting since Monday in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, following the death John Garang, who was recently appointed Sudan’s first vice-president. Julian Hottinger took part in peace talks in Kenya which finally ended 21 years of civil war between the predominantly Christian south and the Islamic…

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Geneva joins world in mourning King Fahd

This content was published on Aug 3, 2005 Swiss President Samuel Schmid was in the capital Riyadh on Wednesday to offer condolences for the death of the 84-year-old monarch. King Fahd, who owned a sumptuous palatial complex in the exclusive suburb of Collonge-Bellerive, had a lifelong love affair with Geneva. He last visited the city in the summer of 2002 when he set…

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Dalai Lama applauds Swiss for Tibet support

This content was published on Aug 2, 2005 At a news conference in Zurich on Tuesday, the Tibetan spiritual leader said he had a threefold commitment to promote human values, religious harmony and the rights of the Tibetan people. Switzerland was the first European country to accept Tibetan refugees after the Dalai Lama was forced into exile in 1959. There is now a…

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Militants cause National Day uproar

This content was published on Aug 2, 2005 About 700 militants – twice as many as in 2004 – heckled Samuel Schmid during his speech on the Rütli meadow, known as the cradle of Switzerland. Rightwing groups accounted for more than a third of all those in attendance at the Swiss National Day celebrations on the meadow and dominated proceedings by booing Schmid,…

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This content was published on Aug 2, 2005 Sport The Bridge started its project in Addis Ababa at the end of 2004, targeting the city’s estimated 60,000-100,000 street children. The charity has the backing of Adolf Ogi, organiser of the United Nations-sponsored 2005 Year of Sport, and receives a large part of its project funding from the Swiss government. Children up to the…

Swiss stick to tradition over baby names

This content was published on Aug 2, 2005 Figures for 2004 also showed a significant increase in the number of births in the country for the first time in 15 years. Lea and Luca remained the most favoured names for girls and boys in the majority German-speaking part of Switzerland last year, said the Federal Statistics Office on Tuesday. Lea was chosen 301…

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Calmy-Rey clarifies Swiss position on Kosovo

This content was published on Aug 2, 2005 She described the current status of the United Nations-administered area as “unsatisfactory”, but warned against hasty conclusions. At the end of her four-day visit to the region, Calmy-Rey said the reintegration of Kosovo into Serbia and Montenegro was neither desirable nor realistic. She said the people in Kosovo needed perspectives for the future. However, she…

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Schwyzer-Musig. Urchig schöni Ländlermusig.

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Swiss sing few praises for national anthem

This content was published on Jul 31, 2005 Several attempts to introduce another hymn have failed over the past few years, and the wider public appears to be indifferent. If the surveys are to be believed, a third of the Swiss don’t know the national anthem. And only a very small percentage know the lyrics by heart. The Swiss media appear to leap…

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Perinçek once more denies Armenian genocide

This content was published on Jul 31, 2005 In a newspaper interview published on Sunday, Perinçek repeated his revisionist views and called for Swiss anti-racism legislation to be scrapped. The head of Turkey’s Workers’ Party told the SonntagsBlick that the legislation went against fundamental rights and the freedom of speech. He added that as a result, Switzerland was losing Turkish friendship and respect…

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