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Experts warn Bondo landslide danger may not be over

Village of Bondo in canton Graubünden in southeast Switzerland

This content was published on Aug 28, 2017 Geologists say the Piz Cengalo mountain on the Swiss-Italian border, which collapsed last week resulting in a huge landslide, remains unstable.

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Switzerland doing little about radical preachers, says progressive critic

This content was published on Aug 27, 2017 In an interview with the paper NZZ am Sonntag on Sunday, the founder and president of The Forum for a Progressive Islam called radical preachers “fire accelerators” as they provide the spiritual justification for the use of violence. She said that the majority of Swiss mosques are conservative and their imams Islamist because of foreign…

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Stories making the Swiss Sunday papers

This content was published on Aug 27, 2017 Reflecting on Bondo According to the SonntagsZeitung paper, landslides like the one in Bondo that claimed eight lives, could occur in other parts of the Swiss Alps. Around 100 rock faces and slippery slopes are monitored round-the-clock by sensors. There are also dozens of structures in the water bodies in the Alps and Pre-Alps, which…

Mud rushes towards the village after another eruption, in Bondo, Graubuenden in South Switzerland, on Friday, August 25, 2017.

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Search for Bondo landslide victims abandoned

This content was published on Aug 27, 2017 Another landslide on Friday afternoon reached Bondo, the village hit by a huge landslide on Wednesday. Nobody was hurt.

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Self-powered gym opens in Switzerland

This content was published on Aug 26, 2017 The Solar Fitness and Wellness Unit, as the new building is officially known, has been in operation since Thursday at EMPA’s campus in Dübendorf, near Zurich. The building contains two saunas and a steam bath, workout equipment and locker rooms that will be used by staff from EMPA and fellow research institute Eawag (the Swiss…

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Escaping the heat of summer

This content was published on Aug 26, 2017 Dogs, dinosaurs, elephants and people - all could use a dip to cool down when the thermometer rises.

Parents of murdered au pair get compensation

This content was published on Aug 25, 2017 Parents of a 16-year-old au pair murdered in canton Aargau eight years ago have received compensation from the canton in an out-of-court settlement.

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Biel to open anti-extremism centre

This content was published on Aug 25, 2017 Biel will open a contact centre for preventing extremism and violence.

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Have you heard of Unspunnen?

This content was published on Aug 25, 2017 Every dozen years or so, crowds flock to the Unspunnen Festival to see among other things who can throw an 83.5kg stone the furthest.

Funds released to renovate shamed steel plant

This content was published on Aug 25, 2017 The Federal Supreme Court announced on Friday that it has cleared the transfer of the funds, that once belonged to the Riva family, to the Italian authorities. This reversed a 2015 decision by the criminal court in Bellinzona to keep the UBS account frozen. The Ilva steelworks, located in Taranto, southern Italy, was linked by…

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