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Tour de Suisse begins eastern trek

This content was published on Jun 11, 2005 Fabian Cancellera and Alexandre Moos are Switzerland’s best hopes in the country’s premier cycling race, which is following a route that largely bypasses western and southern areas. The International Cycling Union (UCI) has made big changes to the rules governing international cycling. From now on the 20 best teams are obliged to take part in…

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Gonzalez triumphs at Tour de Suisse

This content was published on Jun 11, 2005 In a nail-biting finish, the Euskaltel team rider held off the chasing group to take the final stage and ensure overall victory. Switzerland’s most prestigious cycling race ended in Ulrichen in the southern canton of Valais with a mountainous 113-km final stage. Rogers came in second overall, 22 seconds behind Gonzalez, while Germany’s Jan Ullrich…

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Expedition seeks answers on Chinese mountain

This content was published on Jun 11, 2005 The team of scientists and climbers will spend nearly three weeks perched on a Chinese peak to improve understanding of how the body and brain fight against the lack of oxygen at higher altitude. The first group of volunteers, which left on Sunday, should take seven days to reach Muztagh Ata (“Father of Ice Mountains”)…

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Senderos keeps his eye on the ball

This content was published on Jun 11, 2005 In the past six months he has picked up an FA Cup winners’ medal, helped his club to second place in the Premier League, made his Champions League debut and broken into the national team. And right now he is out in the Netherlands captaining the Swiss under-20s at the World Youth Championship, which Switzerland…

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Armenian question overshadows Turkish visit

This content was published on Jun 10, 2005 Newspaper reports in Turkey on Friday said planned visits by ministers from both countries had been cancelled, in response to the launch of a criminal investigation against a Turkish historian. Turkish newspapers, Radikal and Milliyet, reported that the Turkish trade minister, Kürsad Tüzmen, had cancelled a visit to Zurich, planned for June 22-24. Tüzmen had…

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Handel. Portraits of Mezzo-Soprano Heroines. Maria Riccarda Wesseling.

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Adamov gains first point in extradition battle

This content was published on Jun 9, 2005 But he is to remain in custody until the Federal Court rules on a pending appeal by the Swiss justice ministry. Justice ministry spokesman Folco Galli confirmed that Adamov would remain behind bars until Switzerland’s Federal Court rules on that appeal. “The federal supreme court hasn’t responded yet, but at the moment he’s still in…

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Swiss corporate reformers mean business

This content was published on Jun 9, 2005 The Senate voted on Wednesday to oblige large blue-chip companies to disclose individual salary details for all board members, as well as their top executive (CEO). But it rejected proposals by the centre-left Social Democrats to extend the obligation to all individual members of senior management – as in the United Kingdom and the United…

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War of words breaks out in government

This content was published on Jun 9, 2005 Supporters say it is crucial that top jobs in the federal administration are shared out proportionally in a multilingual society. The latest controversy over whether speakers of the minority languages – French, Italian and Romansh – are discriminated against came after the appointment of two members of the majority German-speaking population to high-ranking posts in…

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Senate opposes swissinfo cutbacks

This content was published on Jun 9, 2005 The vote could force the government to oppose plans to dismantle the Swiss news portal. By 19 votes to 16, the parliamentary chamber backed a motion put forward by Filippo Lombardi. Lombardi, a Christian Democrat parliamentarian, argued that swissinfo is Switzerland’s best multimedia portal and the planned cutbacks are unacceptable. On March 21 the Swiss…

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