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Davos stride ahead

This content was published on Apr 4, 2002 The side from canton Graubunden are now just one win away from their first Swiss league title in 17 years. Lions’ head coach Pekka Rautakallio now faces an uphill task before the fourth match at Zurich’s Hallenstadion on Saturday. His team got off to a bad start, when Vjeran Ivankovic missed a chance in the…

Basel clear at top of league

This content was published on Apr 4, 2002 Christian Gross’s team are now seven points clear at the top of the league table at the halfway stage of the championship round, ahead of Grasshoppers who have 33 points. Lugano are in third position, eight points behind Basel. St Gallen opened the match with a goal by Franco Di Jorio in the first half,…

UN agency criticises Italian legal system

This content was published on Apr 4, 2002 Param Cumaraswamy, the special expert on the independence of judges and lawyers for the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, said he found “reasonable cause” for members of the Italian judiciary to feel their independence was being threatened by senior members of the government. Cumaraswamy cited a case against Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, saying…

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Mothers urged to act as peace messengers

This content was published on Apr 4, 2002 The initiative comes amid growing worldwide frustration at the escalating Middle East conflict. Bernese ex-parliamentarian François Loeb last week called on mothers from both sides to work together as a circuit breaker to the conflict. “The situation in the Middle East appears at the moment to be without hope,” Loeb told swissinfo. “A new way…

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Borodin bond to be repaid to Russia

This content was published on Apr 4, 2002 Borodin, who was found guilty last month of corruption, was fined SFr300,000 by a judge in Geneva ending two years of legal proceedings. He was found guilty of receiving SFr38 million in kickbacks from Swiss companies in exchange for lucrative contracts to renovate the Kremlin and the Russian presidential plane. Geneva prosecutor Bernard Bertossa said…

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Schnyder through to Sarasota Open quarter-finals

This content was published on Apr 4, 2002 The win appears to confirm that the Basel-based Swiss has shaken off the disappointment of her first round defeat in Key Biscayne last month, and is now gunning for the semi-finals of the clay court tournament. The 23-year-old will face the tournament’s top seed, Yugoslav Jelena Dokic, in the semi-final. Sarasota will be Schnyder’s third…

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Swimmers flounder

This content was published on Apr 4, 2002 Dominique Diezi swam below her personal best in both the women’s 100m freestyle and 50m butterfly, placing 24th and 20th in respective heats. Christoph Bühler and Karel Novy missed the quarterfinals of the men’s 50 m freestyle sprint, while the Swiss men’s 4 by 200m Relay team came in ninth during heats, missing a place…

Climbers set ambitious summit goals

This content was published on Apr 4, 2002 The two 30-year-old alpinists, Emil Inauen and Walter von Ballmoos, will need to climb between two and 12 peaks a day between now and October if they are to reach their goal. Inauen reckons that to conquer all 460 peaks they will have to overcome at least 600,000 metres in altitude on foot, skis or…

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Museum becomes time traveller

This content was published on Apr 4, 2002 The exhibition, entitled “Time Machine”, was inspired by the novel by H.G. Wells. Its curator Ralf Beil told swissinfo: “There’s an important scene in the book, although not the film version, in which the time traveller enters a dilapidated museum in 1895. “He takes objects from the museum’s cupboards which help him to fight the…

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Switzerland to reassess relations with Israel

This content was published on Apr 3, 2002 Economic and military relations were the areas most likely to be affected, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. “We have to consider the impact of the situation on the ground in the light of our relationship with Israel,” Muriel Berset Kohen, a spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry, told swissinfo. “We’ve had very friendly relations with…

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