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White powder sent to US embassy was not anthrax

This content was published on Dec 17, 2008 The substance was proven harmless in initial tests, US authorities said, but a spokeswoman for the embassy in the Swiss capital said the outcome of further tests was still pending. Suspicious envelopes were mailed to US embassies including those in Brussels, Berlin, Rome, Bucharest, Rome, Dublin, Oslo and Riga, the Latvian capital. Officials in Madrid…

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Disabled air passengers to get more rights

This content was published on Dec 17, 2008 The accord between the EU’s aviation committee and the Federal Aviation Office was announced on Wednesday. Airports will have until November 2009 to implement necessary changes. The Swiss delegation reiterated calls for a further liberalisation of the commercial aviation market allowing Swiss carriers to fly point-to-point routes within a EU country. The Federal Aviation Office…

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Think tanks confirm economic slowdown

This content was published on Dec 17, 2008 The KOF Swiss Economic Institute at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich on Wednesday predicted negative economic growth of 0.5 per cent, in line with government calls of a recession. The Créa Institute of Applied Macroeconomics at Lausanne University, while lowering its forecast to the lowest level since the third quarter of 2005, said…

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Designing the future of alpine tourism

This content was published on Dec 17, 2008 The designs range from a lowly, authentic village hotel to a restaurant tower that would increase the height of one Swiss peak. Eleven of the projects have been featured in an exhibition at the Swiss Alpine Museum in Bern and are either in the works or already welcoming visitors. “There are a lot of different…

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Warrant issued for former Credit Suisse CEO

This content was published on Dec 17, 2008 Mühlemann headed the Banco General de Negocios (BGN) with William Harrison, a former head of JP Morgan Chase, and Bernd Fahrholz, the ex-head of Dresdner Bank. Justice authorities in Buenos Aires said the three bankers failed to appear at a hearing where they were due to testify about the charges. BGN was closed by Argentina’s…

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Value of UN Genocide Convention questioned

This content was published on Dec 16, 2008 “Never again!” said the world after the atrocities committed by the Nazis, as a result of which the United Nations General Assembly adopted the UN Genocide Convention on December 9, 1948. To mark the occasion, experts from around the world gathered in the Swiss capital on Monday to assess the possibilities and limits of this…

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Swiss missing comprehensive laws on looted art

This content was published on Dec 16, 2008 European states that were directly involved in the plunder of cultural objects, Germany in particular, have adopted broader strategies to recover goods objects taken from Jewish families during the Second World War. The issue was the theme of a two-day conference in Berlin. “We know that cultural property had been systematically taken away from Jewish…

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SNB banker supports leverage “safety valve”

This content was published on Dec 16, 2008 In a speech at the London School of Economics on Monday evening, Philipp Hildebrand of the Swiss National Bank (SNB) said that stricter leverage ratios should be in place for the country’s financial institutions. Leverage ratio refers to the amount of money a bank borrows to supplement existing invested funds. Leverage increases returns on positive…

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