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Mike Horn named extreme sportsman of 2001

This content was published on May 22, 2001 The South African received the award following his successful “Latitude 0°” expedition last year. Horn became the first man to traverse the globe along the equator without using any form of automated transport. He circumnavigated the globe by walking, canoeing, sailing and cycling in an expedition lasting 17 months and covering 40,000 kilometres. Horn’s trip…

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Bastl last survivor at French Open qualifying

This content was published on May 22, 2001 The Swiss number four overcame Brazil’s Francisco Costa in straight sets (6-4, 7-5) during Tuesday’s first round qualifying match to set up a meeting with Frenchman Florent Serra in round two. Bastl is hoping to reach the first round proper of the Grand Slam event for the second successive year. Twelve months ago, the Chicago-born…

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Senior politician to face charge

This content was published on May 22, 2001 Hess is being charged with failing to provide a trade register statement of one of the companies where he was a board member. He faces a fine of up to SFr100,000 or a reprimand. The self-regulatory organisation of canton Zug, where his firms were registered, said there was no suspicion of money laundering in the…

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“Super” bacteria pose new threat to human health

This content was published on May 22, 2001 The research team at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich said the bacteria had proved resistant to 12 different antibiotics. They said the germs had developed resistance genes, and that these could be transferred to several different types of bacteria, significantly increasing the danger to humans. Commenting on the danger, Institute food hygienist, Franziska…

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Swiss artist blurs the border between life and art

This content was published on May 22, 2001 Daniel Spoerri was born Daniel Feinstein in 1930 in Romania, and in 1942 fled to Switzerland with his mother, whose maiden name he now uses. He came to art indirectly; his first creative work being in the fields of poetry and dance, but they already pointed the way to his pictorial work of the future.…

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Migration organisation to distribute money to Holocaust survivors

This content was published on May 22, 2001 The IOM is one of three organisations so far charged with distributing money from the settlement, which is designed to compensate former slave labourers and other groups of victims of the Nazi regime in Germany. The director of the IOM’s Holocaust Victim Assets Programme, Dirk De Winter, told swissinfo the IOM was well placed to…

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Aebischer’s Avalanche roll into Stanley Cup final

This content was published on May 22, 2001 Despite the team’s success this season, Aebischer himself has needed plenty of patience in his role as reserve goalkeeper behind one of the sport’s living legends. First choice goalie Patrick Roy holds the NHL record for most playoff appearances, most career minutes, wins and shutouts. This year the 35-year-old star has also been holding Aebischer…

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Call to put female genital mutilation on political agenda

This content was published on May 22, 2001 The survey, conducted among almost 1,200 gynaecologists, is the first of its kind in Switzerland. The results were presented at a conference in Bern and organised by the Swiss committee of the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) on the issue of female genital mutilation. Of the 450 doctors who sent back Unicef’s questionnaire, just over…

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Palestinians seek Swiss support against Israeli settlement building

This content was published on May 22, 2001 The request came during a visit to Bern by the Palestinian planning minister, Nabil Shaath. The Swiss foreign minister, Joseph Deiss, reassured Shaath that Switzerland, as repository of the convention, was determined to hold an international conference and that preparations were in progress. But Deiss said it was important that the conference be held at…

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Schnyder loses out in Strasbourg

This content was published on May 21, 2001 Victory was sweet revenge for Lamade, who suffered a straight sets defeat against her Swiss training partner at the German Open in Berlin a fortnight ago. Schnyder, who started the month by reaching the quarter-finals in Hamburg, has now notched up five first round defeats since the beginning of the year. swissinfo with agencies

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