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Making time for the timeless

This content was published on Nov 16, 2015 It’s a sunny Saturday afternoon, and Aarau’s Old Town is filled with tents and stands and platforms. Flags hang over narrow streets filled with pedestrians. People in traditional costumes sit together at tables in restaurants, drinking beer and eating sausages. Spectators form half-circles around quartets of musicians. Small children sit on the ground in the…

Tradition as a form of integration

This content was published on Nov 16, 2015 By day, American expatriate Kali Tal helps epidemiologists write better research papers. At night she relaxes by weaving scarves. Weaving – a Swiss tradition – offers her an opportunity to be part of the Swiss community. swissinfo.ch: Why do you weave? Kali Tal: I do it because most of my work is so intellectual, and the…

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‘Swiss need border controls after Paris attacks’

This content was published on Nov 15, 2015 Switzerland needs to improve its border controls in the wake of the attacks in Paris that killed 129 people, Defence Minister Ueli Maurer has told the SonntagsBlick newspaper.

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Traditions, job cuts and climate cash

This content was published on Nov 15, 2015 Here are the top stories we’re following the week of November 16.

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Terrorism in Paris: ‘politicians should learn from 9/11’

This content was published on Nov 15, 2015 “The year is ending as it began: with terror in Paris,” noted the editor of the SonntagsZeitung, referring to attacks on the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a kosher supermarket in January. “Yet this time everything is different. Just 24 hours after the attacks the dominant emotion isn’t grief but anger. One thing is sure: this is…

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Paris attacks: ‘France has never seemed so close’

This content was published on Nov 15, 2015 “Such attacks are attacks on the fundamental values of our society,” she said on Saturday. “What is needed now is solidarity with those who have lost friends and family and cooperation with the French authorities. In such moments people have to stand together.” Four gunmen systematically slaughtered at least 87 young people at a rock…

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Behind the scenes in the Swiss air ambulance

This content was published on Nov 14, 2015 Accidents on the road, in businesses, on remote farms or in the mountains – whenever injured people need to be brought to the hospital straightaway, Rega aircraft arrive quickly through the air. Very quickly, in fact: the helicopter launches five minutes after a telephone arrives from private citizens or the local police. It can be…

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Federer wants more doping tests in tennis

This content was published on Nov 13, 2015 “It’s very important. Players need to feel that they’re going to be tested,” the 17-time Grand Slam winner said at a London press conference on Friday. “So they will shy away from any silly thought they might have.” “I’m always surprised when I walk off court after a final and I’m like ‘where is anti-doping?’”…

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Ethiopian plane hijacker deemed mentally unsound

This content was published on Nov 13, 2015 Although the man planned the hijacking beforehand, he was not competent to judge the situation at the time and experienced paranoia, according to the Attorney General’s office. The co-pilot will stand trial before the Federal Criminal Court, which will decide on the therapeutic measures to be prescribed to him. For now, he remains in a…

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Three more FIFA officials are sanctioned

This content was published on Nov 13, 2015 FIFA hands out sanctions to three more football officials, including two bans.

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