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Swiss teams make winning start to UEFA Cup

This content was published on Sep 22, 2001 Swiss champions Grasshoppers Zurich are now well placed to qualify for the second round of the UEFA Cup after they won their first leg match on Thursday against Romanian side Dinamo Bucharest. The away match in Bucharest could hardly have gone better for the Grasshoppers. They defeated their first round foes 3-1. Stéphane Chapuisat opened…

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Lugano hold fast at top of Ice Hockey table

This content was published on Sep 22, 2001 Elsewhere Davos stormed to victory against Zug with a 5:1 win securing their sixth place position in the overall league table, with Zug trailing behind in seventh place. Fribourg thrashed Langnau 4:0 putting the French speaking side in fifth place and their opponent’s in eighth place. Ambri beat Rapperswil-Jona in a closely fought match 3:2…

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Young Boys miss out on topping football league table

This content was published on Sep 22, 2001 Lugano were left struggling when Olivier Biaggi was red carded in the 73rd minute closely followed by Joël Magnin in the 86th. The Ticinese team were also without Rjiad Shala and Raphaël Darbellay, who are injuried Saturday’s result puts Lugano in fourth place behind Geneva-based side Servette who have a game in hand and are…

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Kratochvil through to Shanghai finals

This content was published on Sep 22, 2001 It took the Bernese player less than one-and-a-half hours to beat his 260-ranked Danish opponent, who has recently returned to the tennis circuit after a one year break. Switzerland’s 22-year-old Davis Cup player broke the Dane’s serve no less than four times before securing his convincing win. Carlsen was ranked 41 eight years ago but…

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Shopping centre evacuated after bomb threats

This content was published on Sep 22, 2001 Bern’s police force received a call just before 11am warning that a bomb had been planted in the Migros food store. Following the warning hundreds of people were evacuated from the centre and surrounding buildings. The police later searched the premises and found no evidence of a bomb and people were allowed back into the…

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Lions fail to turn around miserable start to season

This content was published on Sep 22, 2001 The Lions failed to draw strength from the home crowd and lost to Zug 3-5. They opened the evening’s scoring, with a goal from Patric Della Rossa and Edgar Salis. Peter Jaks’s goal soon after gave the Lions a comfortable lead. Todd Elik scored Zug’s first goal in the 18th minute, but seven minutes later,…

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Bush says US economy still “fundamentally strong” after terrorist attacks

This content was published on Sep 22, 2001 “The terrorists who attacked the United States on September 11 targeted our economy as well as our people,” Bush said in his weekly radio address. “They brought down a symbol of American prosperity, but they could not touch its source.” Blue-chip stocks registered the worst weekly loss since the Great Depression in 1933, because of…

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Switzerland cautions against escalating violence after attacks

This content was published on Sep 22, 2001 Bern stressed the important role to be played by the United Nations as the US builds up its military presence in the Gulf region. To effectively fight terrorism, there has to be a lasting understanding between people and a reduction of economic disparities, said a government spokesman, Achille Casanova. Despite Washington’s determination to retaliate for…

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EU rallies behind US as Taliban accuses Washington of sabotaging peace attempts

This content was published on Sep 22, 2001 A spokesman for the leader of the Taliban, Mullah Mohammad Omar, said the US had rejected peace initiatives proposed by Afghanistan. These include the proposal for the prime suspect, Osama bin Laden, to leave the country voluntarily. Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmed Mutawakil once again called on the US not to attack Afghanistan. He complained that…

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Kratochvil through to Shanghai semi-finals

This content was published on Sep 21, 2001 The first two sets of the match were closely fought as each went to a tie break. The Swiss, who is ranked number three in the $400,000 tournament, lost the first set 6-7 (4-7) but managed to equalise the score by winning the next. The second set also went to a tie break, which Kratochvil…

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