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The sounds of Easter ring out over Lake Geneva

This content was published on Apr 10, 2001 Free performances ranging from Swiss folk music to Latin American and Dixieland will be held at hotels and restaurants throughout Montreux from Good Friday (April 13) to Easter Monday (April 16). Visitors to Montreux can stroll between the venues along the scenic lakeshore promenade, lined with gardens and offering stunning views of the French Alps…

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Geneva prosecutor attacks Russian justice system

This content was published on Apr 9, 2001 Bertossa, who has brought charges against the ex-Kremlin aide, Pavel Borodin, launched his scathing attack in an interview on Monday in a Russian daily newspaper. He criticised the Russians for their failure to investigate the Borodin affair. He said he knew of cases, for example in Africa, where nothing was done; but this case, he…

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Government calls time on sports hooligans

This content was published on Apr 9, 2001 “I am concerned at the renewed increase in acts of hooliganism in Switzerland,” Schmid said after violence broke out at two major sporting occasions last weekend. As Saturday’s ice hockey final in Lugano ended in victory for the Zurich Lions, more than 800,000 television viewers saw the victorious side being pelted with missiles and being…

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Baumgartner returns to national handball team

This content was published on Apr 9, 2001 Baumgartner, 30, who currently plays for the top German side TBV Lemgo, pulled out of the national squad in June last year after its defeat by Ukraine in the World Championships play-offs. He is scheduled to return in time for the European Championship play-off against Hungary in June this year. Since leaving the national team,…

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Sherlock Holmes success no mystery in Meiringen

This content was published on Apr 9, 2001 Conan Doyle had been writing about two Holmes stories a year when in 1893 he and his wife set off on a tour of Switzerland. Frustrated with the character that had taken over his life, he came up with a plan to do away with him. “In 1893 he wrote in his diary, which still…

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Papers and paintings draw visitors to Neuchatel culture centre

This content was published on Apr 9, 2001 On four separate occasions four writers will study the day’s issue of the French-language Swiss newspaper Le Temps, and each will write a text based on one of its contents. “It might be a news report which inspires them, a photograph or even the weather forecast,” says Eugène Meiltz, who is organising the exercise. That…

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Bern’s Bellevue Hotel to get facelift

This content was published on Apr 9, 2001 The five-star Bellevue Hotel was built in 1912 and is located in the centre of the Swiss capital next to the parliament building. With its grand entrance and elaborate, stained glass ceilings, the Bellevue is very much a throwback to the “belle époque”. Its strategic location next to parliament makes it an ideal place for…

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Switzerland lose brave Davis Cup fight

This content was published on Apr 9, 2001 Apparently heading for an early exit after losing both Friday’s opening singles rubbers, the Swiss team rallied with victory in Saturday’s doubles. Then on Sunday, Roger Federer beat world number 10 Arnaud Clément to level the tie at 2-2. The deciding singles match between Swiss number four George Bastl and France’s Nicolas Escudé went to…

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Grasshoppers close in on St Gallen

This content was published on Apr 8, 2001 Deputy goalkeeper Peter Jehle, standing in for the injured Philippe Huber, enjoyed another clean sheet, while Swiss international Stéphane Chapuisat scored his first brace of the championship round, with goals in the 25th and 37th minutes. New Uruguayan signing Richard Nuñez grabbed his first goal for the Zurich club with substitute Andres Gerber scoring Grasshoppers’…

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Federer bags second Davis cup point for Swiss

This content was published on Apr 8, 2001 From the outset, Roger Federer, the underdog in this counter, made it clear he was going to fight to get Switzerland’s second Davis Cup point. Clément is four years older than Federer, and at 13th in the world, is ranked higher than the Swiss men’s number one. But the first set was tight, with each…

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