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Stephan Eicher: Ich Möchte Ein Eicher Sein

This content was published on Feb 24, 2005

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Liäbi (Love)

This content was published on Feb 24, 2005

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Swiss help restore Egyptian tomb

This content was published on Feb 23, 2005 The 4,500-year-old Osireion was a place of pilgrimage for the ancient Egyptians, who went there to worship King Osiris – the father of pharaonic culture- who they believed was buried there. Theo Abt, who lectures at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, says that despite the tomb’s importance, the site has been allowed to…

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Guilty sentences handed out in avalanche case

This content was published on Feb 23, 2005 The two were accused of not having taken the necessary safety precautions to prevent the tragedy in the alpine village of Evolène. The court handed out suspended sentences of three months to Pierre-Henri Pralong, the former head of Evolène’s village council, and two months to mountain guide André Georges, who was in charge of security…

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Swiss react to bird flu pandemic warning

This content was published on Feb 23, 2005 The WHO said on Wednesday that the international community should do more to control the spread of the disease, which has already killed 42 people in southeast Asia. Shigeru Omi, a senior health official at the WHO, told a bird flu conference in Vietnam that the world was “now in the gravest possible danger” of…

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List of Swiss tsunami victims revised

This content was published on Feb 22, 2005 The Federal Police Office confirmed software problems were slowing down the registration of missing people in Thailand. Nearly two months after the devastating undersea earthquake off the coast of Indonesia, the Swiss authorities said 16 Swiss citizens had died in the disaster and another 120 were still missing or their fate was unclear. A previous…

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Buddhist peace prize for Swiss theologian

This content was published on Feb 22, 2005 The laureate said he would use the prize, which is worth SFr224,000 ($192,275), for his Global Ethic Foundation. The award ceremony is to take place in Tokyo on May 11. The panel said the understanding and insight of the Catholic theologian were indispensable for peace in the world, notably in the Middle East, Iraq and…

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When a ski holiday ends in hospital

This content was published on Feb 22, 2005 As alarming as the statistics is the trend towards more serious injuries suffered on the slopes. A red and white helicopter of the Swiss Air Rescue service, Rega, lands at the hospital in Interlaken. It is carrying a woman whose face is smeared in blood. She is brought into the emergency ward where doctors get…

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Geneva registers its first “gay divorces”

This content was published on Feb 22, 2005 Some 215 gay and 54 heterosexual couples have taken advantage of the canton’s groundbreaking partnership law since it came into force in May 2001. But four years later, 19 of them, or around seven per cent, have decided to officially end their relationships. Seventeen of those were same-sex couples. “They’re splitting up for the same…

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