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Minors can be held in custody in Switzerland

This content was published on Nov 11, 2016 Children aged 10-15 can be held in custody under exceptional circumstances, the Federal Court has ruled. Switzerland’s highest court has confirmed an earlier ruling by a Geneva court against a 12-year-old Romanian boy, who had been arrested on suspicion of taking part in a burglary and held in custody. The young boy, who did not…

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Zermatt voted best Alpine ski resort

This content was published on Nov 11, 2016 The Best Ski Resort prize, awarded every two years, is based on the results of a surveyExternal link of 49,000 winter sports fans carried out by Mountain Management Consulting and the University of Innsbruck in Austria. It claims to be the largest online survey in the Alps. In all, 54 mountain resorts were examined according…

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‘So Long, Leonard’: Cohen’s Montreux concerts

This content was published on Nov 11, 2016 The Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, who has died at the age of 82, performed five times at the Montreux Jazz festival. A retrospective.

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Montreux Jazz Festival opens concert ‘time capsule’

This content was published on Nov 11, 2016 “Daah, daah, daaaaaah… daah, daah, da, daaaaaah...’ The iconic riff of Deep Purple’s ‘Smoke on the Water’ can now be experienced ‘live’ on a Swiss university campus.

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Malaysia says no to Swiss 1MDB enquiries – again

This content was published on Nov 11, 2016 Malaysia has again rejected a Swiss request for legal assistance into a 1MDB investigation into corruption allegations.

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Final cost for Bern rises

This content was published on Nov 10, 2016 The final tab for the canton of Bern came to CHF2.5 million ($2.53 million), almost 50% more than was approved, the cantonal government said on Thursday. In March, the cantonal parliament approved CHF1.74 million to host the race between the 18th and 20th of July. Officials said the cost overruns mainly were due to the…

Restored Belle Époque steamer returns to Lake Geneva

This content was published on Nov 10, 2016 The “Italie”, a 108-year-old Belle Époque paddle steamer, has been restored and relaunched on Lake Geneva.

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FIFA world football museum battling debt

This content was published on Nov 10, 2016 A report in German-language Swiss newspaper the Tages-Anzeiger on Wednesday claimed that the museum was CHF30 million ($30.3 million) in debt. The figure was confirmed on Thursday by FIFA spokeswoman, Delia Fischer. She told the newspaper it was open as to whether the museum will stay in its current physical form or not. This come…

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Paralysed monkeys walk again with wireless ‘brain-spine interface’

This content was published on Nov 9, 2016 The scientists, who treated the monkeys with a neuroprosthetic interface that acted as a wireless bridge between the brain and spine, say they have started small feasibility studies in humans to test some components. “The link between the decoding of the brain and the stimulation of the spinal cord – to make this communication exist…

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International Geneva is nervous over Trump win

This content was published on Nov 9, 2016 Staff working at so-called International Geneva, the 30-plus international organisations, United Nations agencies and 250 NGOs based in the western Swiss city, seem to be uneasy about Donald Trump as president. “They are worried and very nervous,” said Daniel Warner, Assistant Director for International Relations at DCAF, the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control…

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