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Camenzind leading in Zurich six-day

This content was published on Nov 30, 2000 The all-Swiss trio of Bruno Risi, Kurt Betschart and Markus Zberg were second with 124. The indoor event began on Monday and ends on Saturday. Enthusiasts are hoping the excitement on the track will help revive the fortunes of one of cycling’s lesser-known events. As recently as the 1997/98 season there were 17 races in…

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Haltmayer wins World Cup race

This content was published on Nov 30, 2000 It was Haltmayer’s first World Cup victory on Thursday. The downhill race covered a distance of 2.6 kilometres at the Canadian ski resort of Lake Louise in Alberta. Italy’s Isolde Kostner was just 10 seconds behind Haltmayer when she powered over the finishing line. However, pundits were tipping Kostner as the hot favourite before the…

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Finance ministry unveils measures to tackle money laundering crisis

This content was published on Nov 29, 2000 The ministry said on Wednesday it planned to upgrade the status of the Money Laundering Control Authority and significantly boost its staff. The director of the federal finance administration, Peter Siegenthaler, said it would also take steps to help the Authority cope with a huge backlog of cases. The measures come three weeks after four…

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Srebrenica women seek Swiss help

This content was published on Nov 29, 2000 The fall of mainly Muslim Srebrenica in 1995 was one of the final acts of the war. After slowly cutting off the town, Bosnian Serb soldiers rounded up the entire population of the besieged enclave, which was in theory under the protection of the United Nations. As part of their campaign of “ethnic cleansing” the…

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Fourth Harry Potter book comes out in French

This content was published on Nov 29, 2000 Twenty thousand copies of “Harry Potter et la Coupe de Feu (“Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”) were delivered to bookstores across French-speaking Switzerland on Wednesday. The French translation hit the shelves one month after the eagerly awaited German version arrived in Switzerland. Fans impatient to get hold of their copy overwhelmed bookstores when…

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Austrian film legend dies aged 105

This content was published on Nov 29, 2000 Born in Vienna in 1895, Haid trained as a dancer before switching to cinema, which was then in its infancy. Between 1915 and 1942 she starred in 90 films, the earliest of which were silent. But it wasn’t until 1921 that her career really took off, when she was cast as the lead in the…

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Switzerland not immune from global rise in Aids cases

This content was published on Nov 29, 2000 According to the government, close to 25,000 people in Switzerland have contracted Aids since its outbreak nearly 20 years ago. Since January, 27 people have died as a result of the illness. The Geneva-based United Nations Programme on Aids (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have also issued a joint report, showing that worldwide,…

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Borodin demands legal action against Swiss prosecutors

This content was published on Nov 29, 2000 Borodin, who has been implicated in the investigation, has accused Geneva’s state prosecutor, Bernard Bertossa, and an investigating magistrate, Daniel Devaud, of revealing details of the investigation to the media. Bertossa confirmed that Borodin had called on Switzerland to take action against himself and Devaud, but dismissed the move as “not very serious”. “The aim…

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Styger crashes out at Lake Louise

This content was published on Nov 29, 2000 The 21 year-old hurt her left knee in a fall on the course at Lake Louise in Canada. Doctors said she had damaged her meniscus, but were unable to be more precise. Further investigations will be carried out in Switzerland to determine whether the ligaments are damaged. It is Styger’s third serious knee injury in…

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Swiss sail into stormy waters over America’s Cup

This content was published on Nov 29, 2000 The president of Switzerland’s sailing federation, Bernhard Stegmeier, waded into the fray after Switzerland’s skipper, Russell Coutts, accused the present cup holders, New Zealand, of dragging their feet over accepting the Swiss challenge. Stegmeier said the Swiss had “scrupulously observed all the criteria for acceptance of the challengers” and should be allowed to compete in…

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