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Switzerland proposes deal for banks to resolve U.S. tax dispute
Switzerland has proposed a bill that it says paves the way for the country's banks, including Credit Suisse Group and Julius Baer Group, to resolve a tax-evasion dispute with the U.S. The bill authorizes Swiss banks to cooperate with U.S. authorities and...Tags: Bern (Swiss Confederation), Swiss Confederation, HSBC Holdings plc, Parliament, Prosecution
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Ai Weiwei at work on a heavy-metal rock album and movie project
Ai Weiwei isn't able to leave Beijing because of his ongoing legal battles with the Chinese government, but the world comes to him. The artist is keeping busy with projects that include a planned heavy-metal album and a new movie. Ai's debut album...
Tags: Chen Guangcheng, Human Rights, Arts and Culture, Movies, Entertainment
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Bentley reveals all-new Flying Spur sedan ahead of Geneva debut
Though the Geneva Motor Show is still weeks away, Bentley got a head start on the world debuts expected in Switzerland by unveiling its all-new Flying Spur sedan Tuesday. Whereas the previous Flying Spur was based largely on the Continental GT coupe,...
Tags: Passenger Cars, SUVs and Crossovers, Luxury Vehicles, Bentley, Ferrari
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Bentley teases all-new Flying Spur ahead of Geneva debut
We knew it was coming. Now we know when. Bentley will use the Feb. 20 Geneva Motor Show in Switzerland to unveil its all-new Flying Spur sedan, the company announced Monday. Until then, we have a short teaser video to whet our appetite. Based largely on...
Tags: Lexus, Passenger Cars, Bentley, Luxury Vehicles, Ferrari
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Big deal, little fanfare over global pact on mercury controls
It’s a highly toxic element that travels the world in mysterious ways, respects neither manmade nor natural boundaries and rapidly accumulates in people and the food they eat. Mercury’s risks for human and environmental health have slowly...
Tags: Asia, Harvard University, Heavy Engineering, Environmental Pollution, Ecosystems
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Homicides down after tougher gun laws adopted abroad
Twelve days after the worst mass murder in Australian history, when 35 people were shot to death at Tasmania state’s Port Arthur tourist mecca in 1996, the government issued sweeping reforms of the country’s gun laws. There hasn’t...
Tags: Computer Crime, Swiss Confederation, Firearms, Parliament, United Kingdom
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Swiss freeze $1 billion tied to leaders targeted in Arab Spring
World NowSwitzerland has frozen more than $1 billion connected to leaders who were toppled or are still being battled in Arab Spring uprisings, Swiss official Valentin Zellweger told reporters.... -
Suu Kyi falls ill on first day of European tour [Video]
World NowOn the first day of a whirlwind trip through Europe, famed Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi fell ill, throwing up in the middle of a news conference in Switzerland.... -
Syria hits back on diplomats, but allows humanitarian access
World NowSyria retaliated Tuesday for last week’s coordinated expulsion of its diplomats from the United States, Europe, Turkey and elsewhere, labeling as “unwelcome” a series of ambassadors and other foreign envoys from 11 nations, including the... -
Syria cease-fire 'on track,' envoy Kofi Annan says
World NowKofi Annan, the architect of a six-point peace plan battered by persistent bloodshed in Syria, says his phased blueprint is "on track" for silencing the guns and ending 14 months of fighting some see as sliding into civil war.... -
Unpredictable to the end, Moammar Kadafi ruled Libya for decades
In the modern pantheon of the world's dictators, Moammar Kadafi stood apart. Far apart.
Erratic and mercurial, he fancied himself a political philosopher, practiced an unorthodox and deadly diplomacy, and cut a sometimes cartoonish figure in flowing...Tags: Television, International Court or Tribunal, International Law, Music, Religion and Belief
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Victorinox to open first West Coast store at Beverly Center Saturday
All The RageVictorinox to open first West Coast store at Beverly Center Saturday...
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