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Promoter of Klee paintings and Klee museum dies

Alexander Klee, aka Alyosha Ségard, posing in front of a painting

This content was published on Mar 6, 2021 Alexander Klee, one of the promoters of the renowned Paul Klee museum in the Swiss capital, Bern, has died aged 80.

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March ballots: some 1,200 physically and mentally disabled will vote for the first time

This content was published on Mar 6, 2021 In canton Geneva it’s the first time that people with severe mental and physical disabilities can vote.

Culture

Pia Zanetti – A retrospective of 6 decades

This content was published on Mar 5, 2021

Culture

Chappatte’s Covid cartoon wins top award

This content was published on Mar 5, 2021 Political cartoonist Patrick Chappatte has won the Swiss Cartoon of the Year 2020 for Planet Coronavirus.

Students in kitchen at Lausanne hotel school

Education

Swiss hospitality schools top global ranking

This content was published on Mar 4, 2021 Eight of the ten best hotel schools in the world are located in Switzerland, according to the annual QS university ranking by subject.

Culture

Swiss film wins grand jury prize at Berlin film festival

This content was published on Mar 4, 2021 The feature film La Mif (The fam) by Geneva-based director Frédéric Baillif has been awarded the top prize in the youth category.

Culture

Art on ice: Damien Hirst’s St Moritz lockdown project

This content was published on Mar 2, 2021 British artist Damien Hirst has organised an exhibition of more than 40 of his works in the exclusive ski resort of St Moritz in eastern Switzerland.

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Swiss abroad retain assisted suicide option

This content was published on Feb 28, 2021 In August last year, the group warned that legal hurdles to euthanasia in other countries were making it increasingly difficult to offer its services to people outside of Switzerland. At the time, some 2,600 EXIT members lived abroad. The organisation asked members if it should stop its services at Swiss borders. But according to the…

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Swiss Covid sniffer dogs being put to the test

This content was published on Feb 28, 2021 Dogs are also being trained this way in other countries. In Germany, tests have found that they can perform this task with a 94% success rate. This is because Covid-19 causes human body cells to change their odour. The Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) group has started its own trial programme, reports the Tages Anzeiger newspaperExternal link.…

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Children at work

This content was published on Feb 27, 2021

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