Swiss Identity

Search underway for “missing” Swiss in US

This content was published on Sep 12, 2001 Foreign ministry spokesman, Walter Thurnherr, told swissinfo that it had identified about 700 Swiss who were in the US, and that it was trying to find out which of them may have been affected by the terrorist attacks. “We’re trying to establish contacts with the authorities in New York and with the hospitals to find…

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Strong field confirmed for Kloten

This content was published on Sep 12, 2001 Current world number one and defending Kloten champion Martina Hingis is once again due to play at her home contest, along with five other players from the world’s top ten. Among them will be American world number two Jennifer Capriati, who could yet overtake Hingis at the top of the WTA rankings before the tournament’s…

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Tourists to peer into 220 million years of history

This content was published on Sep 12, 2001 Raimund Hipp, a scientist promoting Swiss “geoparks”, believes the Alps have, up until now, been undersold. “The Alps are a huge “geopark”, he said. Tourists, he lamented, “use the mountains for skiing but very few ever think about how the Alps were formed.” Following the popular success of geoparks in neighbouring Austria and Germany, Switzerland…

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Football matches cancelled

This content was published on Sep 12, 2001 Eight European Champions League games and five UEFA Cup matches went ahead as scheduled on Tuesday, but on Wednesday UEFA said it would be cancelling the rest of this week’s programme in both competitions. “The scale of this tragedy and the pain and sorrow which it brings should cause us all to reflect,” said UEFA…

Swiss ice hockey holds minute of silence

This content was published on Sep 12, 2001 The Swiss-based European football association, UEFA, also decided to go ahead with the opening round of its Champions League programme on Tuesday. However it is not yet clear if Wednesday’s matches will be allowed to go ahead. The German ice hockey league chose to abandon Tuesday’s scheduled match between the Nuremberg Ice Tigers and the…

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Swiss press unites in condemnation of American terrorist attacks

This content was published on Sep 12, 2001 The French-speaking “Tribune de Genève” leads its coverage of the dramatic events with the headline “War against the United States”, while the front page of the German-speaking “Neue Zürcher Zeitung” describes the attacks as “barbaric terrorism against the nerve centres of the United States”. The mass-circulation daily, “Blick”, follows the “Tribune de Genève” in its…

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Thousands feared dead in US terrorist attacks

This content was published on Sep 12, 2001 No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks, in which terrorists crashed two hijacked planes into the World Trade Center, destroying the 110-storey twin towers. A third aircraft was crashed into the Pentagon in Washington DC, causing a massive explosion, and demolishing one side of the building. A fourth plane travelling from New Jersey to…

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Switzerland expresses shock over terrorist attacks in the US

This content was published on Sep 11, 2001 President Moritz Leuenberger said he was deeply shocked. “I cannot find the right words to describe this political and human catastrophe of such an apocalyptic scale. Fundamental achievements such as peace, liberal societies and tolerance have suffered a severe setback by this gigantic act of hatred.” “However, these values must be kept alive as hatred…

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Swiss nurse confesses to 27 mercy killings

This content was published on Sep 11, 2001 The 32-year-old man, who has not been named, told investigators that he had put his victims -mostly elderly women – out of their misery by injecting them with drug overdoses or smothering them with plastic bags and towels. The investigating magistrate, Orvo Nieminen, said in the statement that the man had drugged the patients first,…

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FC Sion wins case over licence lapse

This content was published on Sep 10, 2001 After having already lost three points for fielding too many foreign players in a match against St Gallen two weeks ago, the club was faced with a possible loss of another seven points. However, the case was dropped after a four-hour session, as the disciplinary commission of Switzerland’s national football league does not have the…

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