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• FIFA Announces World Cup Seeds; Karma Announces French Retribution.

  
  World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 — Authority: 540
  The seedings for the World Cup draw were announced today and there were a couple of surprises . Namely the news that the great Fabio Capello has effectively wiped Euro 2008 from statistical history and that France will need a small miracle not to be drawn into a Group of Death. Going into today’s meeting it was ...
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• Libya convicts Swiss pair in apparent revenge for arrest of Gaddafis son

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Businessmen sentenced to 16 months for fraud take shelter in Tripoli embassy Libya has struck a new blow in its long-running spat with Switzerland by sentencing two Swiss businessmen convicted of visa and tax offences to jail in apparent retaliation for the arrest in Geneva of Muammar Gaddafis son. Rachid Hamdani ...
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• Fifa says no to Irish, publishes World Cup “pots”

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 553
  Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The world football federation Wednesday 2 December approved the Final Draw procedure, publishing the “pots” of teams. The draw takes place in South Africa Friday 4 and will determine who plays whom, when. The Irish will not play in South Africa in the 2010 World Cup: that is ...
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• Is The Fed Facing Margin Calls From European Banks?

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  by Marla Singer and Geoffrey Batt Buried in the depths of page 26 of the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program’s (SIGTARP’s) November 17, 2009 report “Factors Affecting Efforts to Limit Payments to AIG Counterparties” hidden in footnotes 33 and 34 is something of a ...
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• Women take top 3 Swiss gov’t jobs

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 553
  Doris Leuthard, Swiss president in 2010 Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Doris Leuthard becomes president of Switzerland in 2010. The 46-year-old PDC (Christian Democrat) member was elected comfortably (153 of 187 votes) by parliament for the top job, a one-year post that is rotated among the seven cabinet ...
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• IAEA Finishes International Safety Review

  
  Nuclear Power Industry News — Authority: 484
  International Nuclear Safety Experts Conclude IAEA Peer Review of the Regulatory System of the Russian Federation  - By April Murelio - An international team of nuclear and radiation safety experts today completed a two-week IAEA review of the regulatory framework of the Russian Federation. The team identified ...
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• Swiss hotel mini-bars labeled energy hogs

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 553
  Discreet Swiss hotel windows are sometimes a good minibar substitute Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The 55,000 mini-bars in Swiss hotels consume far more energy than the average home refrigerator for a family of four, some 24 million kW hours in a year. The heart of the problem is the sad news for hotel ...
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• Swiss Peoples Party Looking Toward More Restrictions On Muslims

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 531
  Religion Clause Blog : "According to Islam Online yesterday, SVP member of Parliament Adrian Amstutz says: Forced marriages, female circumcision, special dispensation from swimming lessons and the burka are top of the list."
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• Art: Dan Stafford, Illustrator, London

  
  Paperholic — Authority: 130
  My work discusses and confronts ideas of duplicity and identity in a culture lacking a vision of the real , writes Stafford. He has just opened an online shop where you can buy his prints (limited edition Giclées , signed, on Hahnemuhle German Etching paper). On offer (among others): Miss Iran (2009) for £ ...
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• It’s tough in the slammer…

  
  Oddly Enough — Authority: 536
  Blog Guy, you wrote about the Swiss chalet where director Roman Polanski may stay under house arrest while he fights extradition over a case of unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl. The farmer in the driveway was a nice touch, but… What else did you want to see? It’s in Gstaad, in the Swiss Alps! Could ...
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• Swiss voters ban minarets

  
  American Freethought — Authority: 121
  Voters in Switzerland have passed a referendum–with a healthy margin–to ban the construction of new minarets in the country.  Switzerland currently has a grand total of FOUR minarets.There are ways to oppose the encroachment of extremist Islam, but this isn’t one of them.
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• Goal.com Know Your Rivals Special: Dream And Nightmare Draws – Europe Pot 2

  
  Goal.com — Authority: 713
  The World Cup draw is only days away, and fans of the 32 teams will be hoping for a favourable draw, or at least to avoid some of the favourites…
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• After Swiss Referendum on Minarets: Who is Radicalizing Whom?

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 605
  On Sunday, 57 percent of Swiss people who took part in a referendum voted in favour of a ban on the construction of minarets. The proposal had been put forward by the Swiss People’s Party (SVP), the largest party in parliament. Reaction to the Swiss people’s decision was immediate, with criticisms appearing in ...
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• Tetra Pak opts for sugar-based plastic packaging

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 553
  Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Lausanne-based Tetra Pak, the world’s largest food packaging company, has signed a contract with Brazilian company Braksem for plastic packaging that will be made from sugar cane. Tetra Pak says “the agreement represents the first move toward using green polyethylene in ...
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• Arab League Condemns Decision By Switzerland to Ban Minaret Construction

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 450
  The League of Arab States has condemned the decision to ban the construction of mosque minarets in Switzerland, that came under a referendum approved by 57% of the Swiss people. The Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Amr Moussa told reporters in Cairo on Tuesday that “this act affects the rights of ...
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• FACTBOX-Measures to fight H1N1 swine flu in Europe

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 709
  Source: Reuters Dec 2 (Reuters) - Here are some details about measures taken to fight H1N1, swine flu, which has killed almost 8,750 people globally, according to the latest European Centre for Disease prevention and ...
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• My compatriots’ vote to ban minarets is fuelled by fear

  
  Pak Tea House — Authority: 434
  The Swiss have voted not against towers, but Muslims. Across Europe, we must stand up to the flame-fanning populistsBy Tariq Ramadan    guardian.co.uk, Sunday 29 November 2009It wasn’t meant to go this way. For months we had been told that the efforts to ban the construction of minarets in Switzerland were ...
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• A New Website to Meet the Needs of Cyclists: Radlreifen.de by Delticom

  
  Your Story — Authority: 591
  HANOVER, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Delticom AG (GER:DEX), the largest online tyre seller in Europe, is expanding its product family by adding an online shop for bicycle tyres. www
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• Swiss ban mosque minarets

  
  Notes from underground — Authority: 121
  Swiss ban mosque minarets in surprise vote : Swiss voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional ban on minarets on Sunday, barring construction of the iconic mosque towers in a surprise vote that put Switzerland at the forefront of a European backlash against a growing Muslim population. Muslim groups in ...
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• Sein

  
  colectiva — Authority: 533
  Sein is a Swiss graphic and design duo founded in 2004 by Thomas Walde and Alain Schibli, producing some great work partly inspired by urban art, streetwear, and furniture design. In particular, we like these two projects for their irreverence and solid sense of humor: Gingerbread Ghetto- Sigsagsug ...
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