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Personal contacts remain lifeblood of espionage

This content was published on Jun 27, 2013 This spy story in Geneva is said to have unfolded as follows: CIA operatives allegedly get a banker drunk and encourage him to drive his car. Then, after his arrest by the police, the agents supposedly help extricate him from a potentially sticky situation, establishing a bond that subsequently led to the banker’s successful recruitment.…

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Biševo – untouched, unspoiled and far from Europe

This content was published on Jun 26, 2013 After the Second World War the island became a military zone and foreigners were forbidden to enter. Most of the remaining population then moved to the mainland or even emigrated abroad, notably to the United States. The decades of forced isolation also had a beneficial effect on the island’s environment. Biševo is pristine, and one…

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Croatia: land of scarred beauty

This content was published on Jun 26, 2013 Situated between the green and turquoise waters of the Dalmatian coast, at the tip of a rocky promontory jutting into the sea, the Pearl of the Adriatic certainly deserves its name. “If you want to see heaven on earth, come to Dubrovnik”, wrote George Bernard Shaw in 1929. This is a heaven carved in stone,…

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Swiss rapporteur denounces Magnitsky ‘cover-up’

This content was published on Jun 25, 2013 In the first comprehensive independent report into the case, Gross concluded: “Corrupt officials must not be allowed to plunder State property whilst brutally silencing those standing in their way, with impunity.” The cover-up surrounding Magnitsky’s death in custody in November 2009 and the crimes he was attempting to expose must be reversed and the true…

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A trip through Croatia

This content was published on Jun 25, 2013

Foreign minister applauds Red Cross

This content was published on Jun 24, 2013 “Today’s warfare does not restrict itself to limited terrain where generals line their troops up in battle order,” he said. “War now takes many forms. The fighting extends to public places, to streets; marketplaces become battlefields. Schools, which should be sanctuaries for the innocent, holding out the promise of the future, now find themselves in…

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Charity hands over human rights petition to FIFA

This content was published on Jun 24, 2013 Solidar Switzerland collected 28,000 signatures and personally handed them to FIFA President Sepp Blatter, the charity said in a statement on its website. In his talk with the charity Blatter promised to campaign for fair working conditions with the Brazilian government, according to Solidar. He will meet again with the Swiss charity in the autumn…

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‘In my dreams I spoke other languages’

This content was published on Jun 23, 2013 The Bern city council meeting has been under way for half an hour when Cristina Mansour arrives. Wearing a red plastic raincoat, red high heels and an enormous black backpack, she crosses the room in the 600-year-old town hall and takes her assigned seat in front of a row of stained glass windows. She follows…

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Government announces pension plans

This content was published on Jun 21, 2013 Under the plan, the retirement age for women will be raised by one year to match that of men, at 65. Early retirement will not be possible before 62, four years later than at present. In order to keep pensions at their current level, everyone will have to pay more into the pension schemes as…

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Credit Suisse to hand bank staff names to US

This content was published on Jun 21, 2013 The name transfer, which will be made on Monday, was revealed by the Swiss Handelszeitung newspaper and confirmed by the bank to the Swiss News Agency. The decision comes after the Swiss parliament on Wednesday refused to approve a bill, strongly supported by the government, that would have allowed banks to sidestep laws on banking…

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