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Norway in shock after “national tragedy”

This content was published on Jul 23, 2011 Police have charged a 32-year-old Norwegian man over both attacks. The man dressed as a police officer was arrested on Utoeya island after an hour-long shooting spree. The search for other possible victims continues. The Oslo bombing killed at least seven. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told reporters on Saturday morning that the attacks were “a…

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Eco-terrorists jailed over foiled IBM attack

This content was published on Jul 22, 2011 A 26-year-old Swiss-Italian from Ticino and an Italian couple aged 29 and 34 were found guilty by the Federal Criminal Court of conspiring to destroy the IBM centre in Rüschlikon, near Zurich, while it was under construction. They were also found guilty of importing explosives into Switzerland, then illegally hiding and transporting them. The court in…

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Eco-terrorists jailed for foiled IBM attack

This content was published on Jul 22, 2011 The Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona sentenced the trio to terms ranging from just over three years to three years and eight months in the trial which ended on Friday. A Swiss-Italian and two Italians were found guilty of conspiring to destroy the IBM centre in Rüschlikon, near Zurich, as it neared completion. They were also found…

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Online “wanted” photos trigger mixed feelings

This content was published on Jul 22, 2011 The move has been widely welcomed, but Zurich lawyer Markus Bischoff tells swissinfo.ch why he is concerned about people being pilloried online before they have been convicted of anything. Bischoff sits in Zurich cantonal parliament as a member of the leftwing “Alternative List” party. swissinfo.ch: The police’s latest method of hunting criminals is clearly successful…

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ICRC visits Gbagbo in Ivory Coast

This content was published on Jul 22, 2011 The ICRC had previously struggled to get access to Gbagbo, under house arrest, his family and his collaborators. The meeting with Gbagbo took place from July 18-21 during a series of visits to people in detention or under house arrest in the north of the country. ICRC’s head of delegation in Abidjan, Dominique Liengme, said…

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Zurich-based financial advisor indicted in US

This content was published on Jul 21, 2011 In a statement on Thursday, the Department of Justice (DoJ) said the Zurich-based man, 57, had conspired to help more than 60 US clients conceal assets from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) between 1998 and 2009. According to the charges filed in a New York court, the man created sham foundations and corporations in third-country…

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Libyan rebels use Swiss ammunition

This content was published on Jul 21, 2011 The Rundschau programme claimed the ammunition, which conforms to Nato standards, came from the state-owned arms manufacturer Ruag and was exported to Qatar by the FGS Frex company in Oberägeri, canton Zug. FGS Frex confirmed the report, which also said the deal had been approved in 2009 by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco)…

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Swiss public opinion “keeps tabloids in line”

This content was published on Jul 21, 2011 In Switzerland, where media houses Tamedia and Ringier own the lion’s share of the country’s press titles, there is general consensus that politics and the media must operate on separate playing fields. In an interview with swissinfo.ch, Peter Studer, a former editor of the Zurich daily Tages-Anzeiger and of Swiss public television station SF, says…

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Del Ponte welcomes Hadzic arrest

This content was published on Jul 20, 2011 Carla Del Ponte, who was at the ICTY from 1999-2007, was quoted by news agencies as saying that the arrest was a great success for the Belgrade authorities, which would help Serbia’s path towards the European Union. For its part, the ICTY said on Wednesday that it looked forward to the “expeditious” transfer of Hadzic…

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Canton Geneva to pay damages over G8 incident

This content was published on Jul 20, 2011 On Wednesday the Federal Court ruled that the use of the stun grenade was unlawful in this situation. The amount of the damages has not yet been fixed. The photographer became caught up in protests in Geneva against the G8 group of nations, meeting in June 2003 in the French town of Evian-les-Bains on Lake…

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