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Switzerland asks Israel to leave West Bank towns

This content was published on Jan 23, 2002 During a meeting with the Israeli finance minister, Silvan Shalom, the Swiss president, Kaspar Villiger, said Switzerland condemned the violent acts in the Middle East, which have cost hundreds of lives so far. Villiger also appealed to Israel to show more restraint as, in his view, the Palestinian president, Yasser Arafat, was currently not in…

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Servette to face Valencia sooner

This content was published on Jan 23, 2002 The match, which pits Switzerland’s last representatives in European competition, against a side which has reached the last two Champions League finals, will now take place on February 19 – two days earlier than originally scheduled. The second leg, due to be played in Geneva at the already sold-out Charmilles stadium, is set to go…

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Imboden secures ticket to Salt Lake City

This content was published on Jan 23, 2002 Miller was literally in the limelight in the night slalom race in Schladming by marking his third victory this season. By finishing with a time of one minute, 44.60 seconds, the American was 66 hundredth of a second faster than Jean-Pierre Vidal from France, who came second. The Croatian Ivica Kostelic finished in third place.…

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Bern still not qualified

This content was published on Jan 22, 2002 After a 4-1 defeat against Rapperswil-Jona the Bernese players are not yet through to the ice hockey play-offs and are only three points ahead of Langnau, who are below the line with 37 points. Fribourg celebrated their first victory this season by crushing league leaders Davos 3-1, which leaves the Romand team in third position.…

Ammann soars to third place

This content was published on Jan 22, 2002 The 20-year-old from St Gallen reinforced his reputation as one of the world’s best by finishing behind Germany’s Sven Hannawald, the eventual winner, and Austria’s Martin Höllwarth. The result was Amman’s fourth podium finish of the season and left him in seventh place in the World Cup standings. Yet despite achieving jumps of 119 metres…

Hingis through to Australian semi-finals

This content was published on Jan 22, 2002 Hingis, who defeated Zanetti 6-2, 6-3, will now face America’s former world number one Monica Seles, who on Tuesday managed to upset her compatriot and number two seed Venus Williams in a three set (6-7, 6-2, 6-3) thriller. The Swiss number one player met Zanetti for the second time in Melbourne. “I played against her…

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Agency moves to block Binladin fashion label

This content was published on Jan 22, 2002 Yeslam Binladin, who has lived in Geneva for the past 20 years, was granted a trademark by the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property prior to the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington. But the institute has now decided that a “Binladin” clothing line would be insensitive and it has launched proceedings to…

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Menem linked to $10 million in Swiss accounts

This content was published on Jan 22, 2002 The Swiss authorities froze Menem’s money when they opened a criminal case into his accounts following requests from judicial authorities in Argentina. They sought help in their probe into suspected illegal arms sales to Croatia and Ecuador in the early 1990s. A Geneva investigating judge said last October he had blocked the two bank accounts,…

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Swiss wins German literature prize

This content was published on Jan 22, 2002 The book describes a mother’s struggle to find her daughter, who has vanished. It follows the tradition of the 20th century French novelist Georges Simenon. The 64-year-old Heimann also won the literary distinction five years ago with his previous detective novel, “Dezemberföhn”, or “December Foehn” – the foehn being a warm southerly wind. Heimann gained…

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Sixth century Chinese Buddhas go on show in Zurich

This content was published on Jan 22, 2002 The exhibition, “The return of Buddha”, shows some 30 sculptures dating back to the sixth century, from the Qinzhou region of East China. The sculptures are part of a collection of 300 art pieces discovered in 1996 by construction workers in China. The works had been hidden and buried in a funeral parlour during the…

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