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‘Professional tennis in Switzerland is expensive’

This content was published on Jul 7, 2016 Alessandro Greco, director of team performance at Swiss Tennis, tells swissinfo.ch about the challenges of finding and developing young talent.

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Moving money out of purgatory

This content was published on Jul 6, 2016 Aaron Bornstein arrived in Kazakhstan in February 2009 with $84m and a daunting assignment. His job was to hand out millions of dollars to impoverished families, non-governmental agencies and students who wanted to pursue secondary education. The catch was that he could not have any dealings with the Kazakh government, which was not exactly happy…

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Government to resume drug pricing controls

This content was published on Jul 6, 2016 Interior Minister Alain Berset said on Wednesday that new savings of CHF180 million could be expected in the three years after price comparisons resume in 2017. In December, the Federal Court found partially in favour of a complaint from a pharmaceutical company that the price controls were unfair. In future, the Federal Health Office must…

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Alberto Giacometti’s atelier opens

This content was published on Jul 6, 2016 Alberto Giacometti was one of the major sculptors of the 20th century. He regularly spent time in his native village of Stampa in the Bregaglia Valley in canton Graubünden, and now his studio has now been opened to the general public. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)

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Free movement of EU workers has worked for Switzerland – so far

This content was published on Jul 5, 2016 Switzerland’s free-movement accords with the European Union offers the UK a potential glimpse of life after Brexit.

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A foreign view of Switzerland

This content was published on Jul 5, 2016 From the 19th century to the end of the 20th, visitors to the country came mostly from western Europe and North America. The exception were the Japanese. Now, Chinese and Indian tourists outnumber the Japanese, and they have been joined by large groups from the Gulf states. These new ‘outsiders’ have become in many ways…

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Swiss F/A 18s intercept Israeli airliner

This content was published on Jul 5, 2016 Two Swiss F/A-18 fighter jets have intercepted an Israeli El Al airliner near Schaffhausen due to a bomb threat, authorities said.

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Muslim chaplaincy for asylum-seekers launched

This content was published on Jul 4, 2016 As of July 1, the federal asylum centre in Zurich began offering religious services to Muslims through a collaboration between the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) and the Zurich-based Association of Islamic Organisations (VIOZ). Three Muslim religious advisers –two men and one woman – have been appointed based on the recommendations of VIOZ. They will…

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Task force: Prevention key to disarm threat within

This content was published on Jul 4, 2016 A special task force says the Swiss government should consider establishing a national body to monitor and prevent Islamic radicalisation in the nation’s midst.

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Episode 4: London’s Swiss heart

This content was published on Jul 2, 2016 This week Diccon follows the traces the Swiss have left in London. (Diccon Bewes for swissinfo.ch)

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