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Out into the cold – Davos’ fresh air cure

This content was published on Jan 17, 2016 Meet a man who was treated in one of Davos’ sanatoriums as a teenager, and go behind the doors of an ex-luxury sanatorium, located high above the town, where patients would eat 13-course lunches and spend hours every day soaking up the sun’s rays. (Photo: Jo Fahy/swissinfo.ch) Like what you hear? Want to know more?…

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Childhood – two centuries of snapshots

This content was published on Jan 16, 2016 Lots of experiences are totally new for children, and have to be recorded to be remembered. “Photos of children are often imbued with a deep longing for the time that once was and will never be again. A longing for a world in which you actually got what you wanted if you wished hard enough.…

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China and Switzerland to step up anti-graft cooperation

This content was published on Jan 15, 2016 “We have decided to strengthen our cooperation in terms of repatriating corrupt individuals and funds,” Yi told reporters at a press conference in Beijing, accompanied by his Swiss counterpart Didier BurkhalterExternal link, who is visiting. In 2014, the Chinese authorities launched a huge offensive against corruption – “Operation Fox Hunt” – to track down and…

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Switzerland returns stolen Etruscan treasures to Italy

This content was published on Jan 15, 2016 Rare Etruscan artefacts stolen during illegal excavations and hidden away for more than 15 years at Geneva’s free port, have been handed back to Italy, the Geneva prosecutor’s office announced on Thursday.

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More work needed on Gurlitt art trove, says task force

This content was published on Jan 14, 2016 A special task force that has been checking Gurlitt’s trove – more than 1,200 works found at his Munich apartment, plus around 250 from his property in Salzburg, Austria – submitted its final report on Thursday after two years’ work. Gurlitt died in 2014, months after German authorities said they had seized the works in…

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Travel agents look forward to a good 2016

This content was published on Jan 14, 2016 Travel group TUI Suisse said it was expecting a boom in reservations for Spanish beaches, especially the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands. In a statement released on Thursday by the Swiss Travel Association, TUI Suisse said these destinations were benefiting from the collapse in reservations in Egypt and Tunisia, rocked by political uncertainty. Hotelplan…

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‘William Tell’ actor Conrad Phillips dead at 90

This content was published on Jan 14, 2016 Phillips played the role of Tell in a series that ran on British channel ITV from 1958-1959. The swashbuckling actor did many of his own stunts. He published an autobiography about his time playing Tell in 2013, after which he told swissinfo.ch, “I’ve had quite a bouncy life. Some of the childhood stuff was kind of…

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FIFA ethics panel wants longer bans for Blatter and Platini

This content was published on Jan 12, 2016 The bans against Platini and Blatter,” investigatory panel spokesman Andreas Bantel told reporters in Zurich, where FIFA has its headquarters on Tuesday. The panel’s investigatory arm had initially demanded lifetime bans. It now argues that the eight-year bans are too lenient. The former FIFA president and Platini, head of European football’s ruling body UEFA, were…

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Paris police attacker requested asylum in Switzerland

This content was published on Jan 12, 2016 The man who attacked a Paris police station on the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo terror attacks asked for asylum in Switzerland in 2013, according to the federal police.

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Scientists launch app to document English dialects

This content was published on Jan 11, 2016 A team of researchers from England and Switzerland has developed a smartphone app in English that identifies regional accents based on the pronunciation of words and phrases. It follows hugely successful similar crowdsourcing linguistics apps in German and Swiss-German.

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