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Associated Press BERN, Switzerland -- Swiss tax authorities said Tuesday they have notified the first 500 clients of Swiss bank UBS AG whose names they want to hand over to the U.S. for alleged tax cheating. The taxpayers who...
KCBS Iran Hikers' Families Won't Give Up KCBS SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS/AP) -- The families of three hikers, arrested over the summer while hiking in Iran, are not giving up hope. They've created a new video message to go along with...
» 1 hr 37 ago: Nude photo of Polanski, Tate to be auctioned in NY « This story is ranked # 1,119 of 2,627 Related Topics: NEW YORK (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File) FILE -- This is a Jan. 15, 2009 file photo, of film director Roman...
Thursday 26th November, 06:48 AM JST GENEVA — Roman Polanski was granted $4.5 million bail Wednesday, clearing the way for the fugitive director to move within days from a Swiss jail to house arrest and electronic monitoring at...
Spero News 25 November 2009 By Martin Barillas In Switzerland, voters go to the polls to decide whether to allow minarets. In Spain, a go-slow policy appears to emerge. While France and Italy appear poised to prohibit...
From correspondents in Hamburg, Germany, 04:03 PM IST Switzerland, who have been solid but unspectacular at tournaments in recent years, could be a more serious threat under veteran coach Ottmar Hitzfeld at the World Cup. The...
A ban on the construction of minarets would breach Switzerland’s obligations to uphold freedom of religion, Amnesty International said ahead of a referendum on Sunday 29 November 2009 on a constitutional amendment.
NYON, Switzerland–Top soccer officials from nine countries embroiled in a match-fixing scandal will meet with the sport's European governing body on Wednesday. UEFA spokesman Rob Faulkner said national associations and leagues...
Despite hearing quite a few nice speeches about the Kremlin's commitment to fighting corruption, 2009 was most definitely a boom year for graft in Russia.Earlier this month Transparency International released its Corruption...
Switzerland's UBS AG said to turn over accounts held by U.S. residents to IRS as U.S. gov't screens bank clients for tax fraud Urs Ursprung, director of the Swiss Federal Tax Department, gestures while speaking at a news...
