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Axe attack by teenager not terror act, say police

This content was published on Oct 23, 2017 According to a statementExternal link by the St Gallen police, the teenager carried out the attacks near the town’s post office shortly after 8pm on Sunday. He attacked a couple in their thirties who were with their eight-month-old baby as well as two bystanders who tried to intervene. He then fled the scene using a stolen…

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‘People need to understand that normality doesn’t exist’

This content was published on Oct 23, 2017 To feel like a woman and be accepted as one – this is the battle 68-year-old Stella Glitter has fought all her life.

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An Art Nouveau pioneer, remembered

This content was published on Oct 23, 2017 The artist who had a decisive influence on Art Nouveau, Eugène Grasset, died 100 years ago today.

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Stories making the Swiss Sunday papers

This content was published on Oct 22, 2017 The bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics has seriously underestimated the cost of security for the event, according to some observers. The SonntagsZeitung has quoted experts calling the CHF300 million ($305 million) budget “unrealistic”. On Wednesday, the Swiss government threw its weight behind the Sion Olympic bid by pledging CHF1 billion towards the venture. But…

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Gurlitt art collection ‘opportunity for Switzerland’

This content was published on Oct 22, 2017 In an interview with the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper, museum vice-president Marcel Brülhart calls on the Federal Office of Culture to set up an independent centre for checking the provenance – or history of ownership – of art suspected of being looted by the Nazis. Instead, the ministry opposed the museum taking over the art collection…

Erwin Sperisen with red beard and glasses

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Jailed ex-Guatemala police chief to sue

This content was published on Oct 22, 2017 The Swiss-Guatemalan dual citizen was jailed for life in 2014 for involvement in the deaths of ten prison inmates in Guatemala between 2005-2006. But earlier this year judges ordered a retrial because his defence was compromised by irregularities in the original hearing. “We will be seeking damages of more than a million francs from canton…

Education

University bullying case brings ‘professor power’ into question

This content was published on Oct 22, 2017 The alleged bullying ranges back more than ten years, raising concerns that professors might enjoy too much power at Swiss universities. The allegations centre on an unnamed female professor who set up the university’s Institute for Astronomy with her husband in 2002. She is accused of subjecting numerous students to late-night badgering on minor issues,…

Culture

Nina Bader: ‘Life is much more relaxed in Vancouver’

This content was published on Oct 22, 2017 The 27-year-old got to know Vancouver during her studies and later found love and work there.

An asylum seeker sits a table at a civil defence facility in St Gallen

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Asylum procedures can threaten mental health of migrants

This content was published on Oct 21, 2017 Even after obtaining refugee status in Switzerland, stressful conditions can aggravate mental health problems in asylum-seekers.

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Culture

Legends and their artistic marketing

This content was published on Oct 21, 2017 Halberds, torches and knights’ helmets meet stuffed chamois mountain goats, fake beards and state-of-the-art lighting technology: Friedrich Schiller’s drama “Wilhelm TellExternal link” is performed annually from June to mid-September in Interlaken in the open air. In 1912 a teacher staged Tell’s play with his class for the first time. Since then, with an interruption during…

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