Swiss Identity

Tourism prizewinner is no mystery

This content was published on Oct 28, 2003 Based on the extraterrestrial theories of the best-selling Swiss author, Erich von Däniken, the park has exceeded expectations since it opened earlier this year. At a ceremony in Bern on Tuesday, the Milestone jury honoured the “courage” of the Mystery Park’s founders to press on with the project despite reluctance on the part of banks…

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S’ sch mr alles 1 Ding. VOX vocal Quartet.

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Skarra Mucci & Ganglords

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Basel band have still got the bug

This content was published on Oct 28, 2003 Close to breaking up in 2001, the Basel band bounced back to release their third top ten album and recently warmed up for the Rolling Stones in Zurich. “We were prepared for the worst actually,” grins lead vocalist Adrian Sieber as he recalls singing in front of 42,000 people. “We’d heard that the Stones’ audiences…

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ICRC considers pulling out of Iraq

This content was published on Oct 27, 2003 The head of the ICRC’s operations in Iraq told German television that it would begin withdrawing its foreign staff as of Tuesday. “We will begin on Tuesday to evacuate our international staff and then see how we can continue to work with our Iraqi colleagues,” Pierre Gassmann told ARD television. However, the world headquarters of…

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ICRC to reassess role in Iraq after bombing

This content was published on Oct 27, 2003 The bomb explosion at the ICRC buildings killed two of the organisation’s employees, along with an estimated ten other people. “The ICRC condemns this attack in the strongest terms and expresses its heartfelt sympathy to the victims and their families,” the organisation said in a statement. “All deliberate attacks causing death or injury among civilians…

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Bernard Léchot: Passage

This content was published on Oct 27, 2003

Swiss investigate alleged case of Turkish espionage

This content was published on Oct 26, 2003 Turkish spies allegedly recorded a meeting earlier this year between Calmy-Rey and a representative of a Kurdish organisation banned in Turkey. According to a report in the German-language newspaper “Tages-Anzeiger”, Turkish authorities informed Ruth Metzler’s justice ministry about the meeting, which allegedly took place in Lausanne, on the shores of Lake Geneva. The information was…

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Photographer uncovers secrets of “Glass Island”

This content was published on Oct 26, 2003 A Swiss photographer managed to earn their trust, and an exhibition of his pictures has now gone on show at the Image House Gallery in Zurich. Jürg Waldmeier, a 40-year-old professional photographer from Zug, spent three years observing the glassblowers of Murano and capturing their work. But Waldmeier says taking photographs was not always easy…

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New cardinal says Pope has faith in Switzerland

This content was published on Oct 26, 2003 Cottier, who is only the eighth Swiss to have been made a cardinal, spoke to swissinfo about relations between the Swiss Catholic Church and the Vatican. A number of controversies have dogged the Catholic Church in Switzerland in recent decades. In the 1970s a schismatic French archbishop, Marcel Lefèbvre, founded a seminary in Fribourg and…

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