Dyslexic, a student fights to join the University of Bern

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The Federal Court meets on Tuesday morning in public hearing to determine whether a dyslexic student is entitled to additional time during veterinary medicine exams. The University of Bern refused his request during the July 2021 session. (illustrative image)

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JUSTICE: The Federal Court will decide in a public hearing on Tuesday whether a student suffering from dyslexia is entitled to additional time during the admission exam for veterinary medicine studies. The University of Bern refused her request and the candidate appealed with the support of the Inclusion Handicap association.

DIPLOMACY: The President of the Confederation Viola Amherd completes a several-day visit to Italy and the Vatican. After Italian President Sergio Mattarella, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Pope Francis, she meets again Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosett.

MUSIC: Music fans will be able to attend the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, Sweden, on Tuesday evening. Switzerland will have to wait until the second semi-final on Thursday evening to know the fate that will be reserved for the Biel candidate Nemo, tipped as a possible winner.

SOCCER: The Champions League semi-finals take place this week. Tuesday evening, PSG welcomes Dortmund from 9 p.m. at the Parc des Princes with a goal to make up. Winner 1-0 on home soil last Wednesday, Borussia can expect to suffer against a Parisian attack led by Kylian Mbappé. A second clean sheet from Swiss international goalkeeper Gregor Kobel would secure a place in the final for BVB.

Seen in the press

VATICAN: Women could be members of the Swiss Guard at the Vatican from 2030. The Guard and Barracks Foundations want to act in this direction, declared the president of the Guard Foundation Jean-Pierre Roth in the group’s German-speaking titles CH Media. The construction of new accommodation for future recruits could start within two years and the inauguration take place in 2030. The final decision, however, rests with the Pope, who would be in favor of such an opening.

MIDDLE EAST: The Federal Council will have to decide on the financing of UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. Consulted on Monday, the Foreign Policy Commission of the Council of States abstains from any recommendation on this point, indicates Le Temps. She thus passes the ball back to the government, which could possibly decide this Wednesday.

The seven ministers are divided and Ignazio Cassis risks having to play referee, writes the newspaper. While most Western donor countries have resumed their funding of the UN agency, Swiss funds are still blocked. Payments were suspended following accusations of terrorist involvement by Israel.

RUSSIA: The Russian company specializing in facial recognition Toloka set up shop in Lucerne last year. “We chose Switzerland because there is case law here which allows this type of business,” indicated a spokesperson for the German-speaking titles of the Tamedia group.

Russian companies that help the security apparatus in Moscow to recognize the faces of opponents are not sanctioned in Switzerland, write the Tamedia newspapers. On the other hand, they are in the European Union. Toloka is reportedly distancing itself from its parent company, the Russian search engine Yandex, accused of serving Kremlin propaganda. The two companies currently share the office in Lucerne.

BANKS: The Zurich establishment TradeXBank is no longer under American sanctions and can therefore once again carry out transactions in dollars. The United States on Monday removed the former Swiss subsidiary of the Russian banking group Sberbank from its list of entities close to Russian power, indicate Le Temps and the NZZ.

The bank, bought in 2022 by Geneva entrepreneur Abdallah Chatila, had been the subject of American sanctions since 2014, during the invasion of Ukraine. Specializing in the financing of raw materials, it suffered from its inability to use the dollar, the king currency in this area.

MOVIE THEATER: One of the producers of the series “Winter Palace”, co-produced by RTS and Netflix, was dismissed following a report made by a young woman employed on the set. Several sources mention “inappropriate behavior”, indicate the French-speaking titles of the Tamedia group, which returned to information published Sunday on the French-speaking site l’Impertinent.

The incident which occurred on October 10 was not the subject of a legal complaint and the producer involved voluntarily withdrew from filming, which lasted from October 2023 to March 2024. He refuses to comment.

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Birthdays and jubilees

– 20 years ago (2004): Turkey abolishes the death penalty.

– 30 years ago (1994): Norwegian police found the painting “The Scream” by Edvard Munch in a hotel. The painting had been stolen on February 12 from the National Gallery in Oslo.

– 70 years ago (1954): Fall of the French entrenched camp of Dien Bien Phu in Indonchina.

– 70 years ago (1954): Birth of American director Amy Heckerling (“Hello mom, here baby”, “Clueless”).

– 70 years ago (1954): Birth of the Belgian artist Philippe Geluck, the “father” of “Chat”.

– 85 years ago (1939): Birth of Venezuelan musician José Antonio Abreu, founder of the national network of children’s orchestras “El Sistema”. He received the Alternative Nobel Prize in 2002. He died on March 24, 2018.

– 200 years ago (1824): First performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s 9th symphony, with its “Ode to Joy”.