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Child custody plan to ease bitter divorce battle

This content was published on Nov 18, 2011 However, the controversial issue of child support payments has been excluded and will be dealt with next year. It is now up to parliament to discuss the necessary legal amendments as part of an overhaul of the civil code. “A first important step has been taken,” said Kathie Wiederkehr of the Foundation for the Protection…

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Red Cross steps back from Holocaust search

This content was published on Nov 18, 2011 The Geneva-based organisation has a long history of helping reunite families separated by war and identifying the remains of people killed in conflict. It was tasked in 1955 with leading the International Tracing Service (ITS) that was established in Bad Arolsen, Germany, to find victims of Nazi persecution. The ICRC said on Friday it would…

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EU wants renegotiation of Swiss tax treaty

This content was published on Nov 18, 2011 If they refuse to do so, the commission said it would open infringement proceedings against Berlin and London by the end of the year. The texts have already been drafted. The so-called Rubik agreements provide for the introduction in Switzerland of a withholding tax in full discharge of all tax obligations on the assets placed…

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Ex-UBS banker given suspended sentence

This content was published on Nov 18, 2011 A federal judge in Miami agreed on Friday that the 45-year-old man deserved leniency. He was sentenced to five years’ probation. He pleaded guilty in 2010 to tax fraud conspiracy and since then has been helping US prosecutors build cases against former colleagues and customers who had secret Swiss bank accounts. The case was part…

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London protesters occupy UBS-owned building

This content was published on Nov 18, 2011 Occupy London said on its website on Friday that the group had taken over the abandoned office block in the neighbourhood of Hackney, northeast London, in an overnight “public repossession”. More than 200 tents have been pitched outside St Paul’s since October 15 in a protest against capitalist excess inspired by New York’s Occupy Wall…

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Swiss toughen sanctions against Iran

This content was published on Nov 18, 2011 The move came as the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), met in Vienna on Thursday and Friday to formulate a response to the agency’s most recent report which was critical of Iran’s nuclear programme. Included in the new Swiss sanctions are Iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi and four current…

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Swiss president to open Geneva Initiative talks

This content was published on Nov 18, 2011 The Geneva Initiative was drafted jointly by Israelis and Palestinians from civil society with the aim of resolving the conflict between the two peoples peacefully and on the basis of fair negotiations. In a statement on Friday, the foreign ministry said the conference would “review the achievements of the Geneva Initiative launched in 2003 and…

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Finance minister discusses euro crisis in Paris

This content was published on Nov 17, 2011 Widmer-Schlumpf told Baroin she had been “surprised” when French President Nicolas Sarkozy had included Switzerland in a list of tax haven countries that should be “excluded” from the international community. Sarkozy made the remarks at the closing of the G20 summit in Cannes last month, prompting the Swiss government to summon the French ambassador to…

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Shooting deaths reignite army guns debate

This content was published on Nov 17, 2011 In both cases the victims, aged 21 and 23, were killed using army-issue weapons. In the first case, the gunman had prior convictions for issuing threats and damaging property, while in the second the shooter was unaware he was handling a real – and loaded – gun when he pointed it at his friend’s chest…

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German authorities consider new tax CD

This content was published on Nov 17, 2011 According to the newspaper, the data concerns around 1,000 German clients of a private bank based in Zurich. A spokeswoman for the North Rhine-Westphalia finance ministry told the Germany Press Agency DPA: “it is part of our ongoing business to check CDs that have been offered”, but would not say whether this was currently the…

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