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Today’s highlights
THE JUMPERS COMPETING IN INNSBRUCK: The third stage of the 4 springboards tour takes place this afternoon in Innsbruck. Lucerne’s Gregor Deschwanden hopes to shine once again, three days after his fine 2nd place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The Swiss ranks 4th on the tour behind three Austrians.
GENEVA-SERVETTE IN EMMENTAL: Four National League ice hockey matches are on the program this evening. Genève-Servette travels to Langnau and hopes to score a second success in a row after its change of coach. Biel welcomes Rapperswil. The other parties will pit Kloten and Bern on the one hand and Zug and Davos on the other.
UNITED STATES: The nation’s tribute to former President of the United States Jimmy Carter, who died on December 29 at the age of 100, opens Saturday in his small hometown of Plains, Georgia. In front of the family farm where he grew up, the bell will ring 39 times, in tribute to the 39th American head of state that he was. A ceremonial ballet is planned until the national day of mourning on January 9.
SOUTH KOREA: Thousands of South Koreans are expected to take to the streets of Seoul on Saturday in an increasingly chaotic political context following a failed attempt to arrest ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol. The latter is accused of “rebellion” for having attempted to impose martial law in early December.
TODAY IS…: Like every January 4, today is World Braille Day. According to the UN, this day serves to highlight the importance of Braille in the full realization of the fundamental rights of blind and visually impaired people. Through this tactile writing system in which each letter, each number and even each musical, mathematical and scientific symbol is represented by means of a combination of six points, blind and visually impaired people have access to the same books and magazines as those intended for visual reading. All the information on the UN website: https://www.un.org/fr/observances/braille-day
Seen in the press
SLIDE: The recent landslide at Pointe Dufour – the images of which are “spectacular” – is not surprising, professor at the Institute of Geology at the University of Bern Flavio Anselmetti declared in the NZZ on Saturday. Many of these events go unnoticed or we only learn of their existence days or even weeks later.
A major landslide took place on the night of December 26 on the Italian side of the highest Swiss peak, Walliser Bote recently reported. In the pages of the newspaper, glaciologist Jan Beutel estimated that between 150,000 and 300,000 m3 of rocks had broken away, causing a tremor measuring 2.1 on the Richter scale.
CACAO: The boss of Kägi, Cédric El-Idrissi, is concerned about the rise in cocoa prices which should continue in 2025, he declared on Saturday in an interview with the German-speaking weekly Schweiz am Wochenende. He said that a partial relocation of production abroad, where prices are more advantageous, is not possible for Kägi.
The company generates more than half of its turnover in Switzerland. “We cannot alienate this market,” Mr. El-Idrissi said. “Swiss customers want Swiss chocolate, even if it is a little more expensive.”
Switzerland weather flash
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Birthdays and jubilees
– 10 years ago (2015): Italian singer Pino Daniele died of a heart attack at the age of 59. This guitarist with a high voice has mixed jazz, rock and blues sounds with the Neapolitan musical tradition.
– 50 years ago (1975): Death of the Italian writer Carlo Levi (“Christ Stood at Eboli”, “The Truce”). He was born in 1902 in Turin.
– 75 years ago (1950): Israel declares Jerusalem as its capital, contrary to a UN decision.
– 125 years ago (1900): Birth of the American ornithologist James Bond, from whom the writer Ian Fleming borrowed the name of the future agent 007. He died in 1989.
Saying of the day
From Sainte-Pharailde the heat, It is the anger and our misfortune
