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The No-Longer-So-Secret Swiss Bank Account
Wall Street's Bad Old Days Could Be Back If the Banks Win this Lawsuit
One Man's Lonely Quest to Close the Door on Northern Ireland's Troubles
How a CIA Officer Wanted for Kidnapping in Italy Ended Up Arrested in Panama
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The No-Longer-So-Secret Swiss Bank Account
Bankers from Credit Suisse, one of the world's largest financial institutions, courted wealthy Americans in airports, at family weddings and on golf courses from Florida to the Bahamas with a simple pitch: We'll help you hide your money. The bankers...
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Wed, Feb 02 2014 1:41 PM
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Wall Street's Bad Old Days Could Be Back If the Banks Win this Lawsuit
It's Wall Street's latest counterstrike against Washington and its attempts to rein in the financial industry after the crisis that plunged the U.S. economy into recession in 2008. And if the legal attack is successful, it could leave an opening...
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Wed, Dec 12 2013 4:03 PM
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One Man's Lonely Quest to Close the Door on Northern Ireland's Troubles
If John Larkin, Northern Ireland's Attorney General, has his way, crimes perpetrated before the end of the country's three-decade conflict between mainly Catholic Irish nationalists and Protestant loyalists will no longer be prosecuted. That conflict...
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Thu, Nov 11 2013 4:27 PM
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How a CIA Officer Wanted for Kidnapping in Italy Ended Up Arrested in Panama
On Wednesday, the story of Robert Seldon Lady, a former CIA station chief in Milan, Italy, took another improbable turn when he was arrested in Panama near the Costa Rican border. Lady has been living quietly in the United States since fleeing an Italian...
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Thu, Jul 07 2013 4:00 PM
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Accused Nazi war criminal arrested
Early this morning , Hungarian law enforcement detained accused Nazi war criminal Laszlo Csatary. The judge in the case ordered him placed under house arrest. Csatary was a commander for the Royal Hungarian police force in Kassa, in modern-day Slovakia...
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Wed, Jul 07 2012 12:21 PM
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After Lubanga, who's next on the ICC's docket?
The International Criminal Court handed down its first sentence on Tuesday to Congolese war criminal Thomas Lubanga for the use of child soldiers. After over three years at trial , and following his conviction in March of this year, the court issued a...
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Wed, Jul 07 2012 7:07 AM
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Dutch slaughter ban sparks Jewish and Muslim outrage
Just one week after the acquittal of fiery far-right politican Geert Wilders , the Dutch parliament struck another blow against multiculturalism in the Netherlands yesterday with the passage of a bill banning ritual animal slaughter . The bill requires...
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Wed, Jun 06 2011 11:46 AM
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British schools to bring back the rod?
If you think a day in the life of a British school kid is all about matching knee socks, "smart" ties, and a good dose of old-fashioned law and order (just think Professor McGonogall and those no-nonsense glasses) -- think again. Last year alone...
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Wed, Jul 07 2010 11:26 AM
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French fare-dodgers get organized
The Parisians who flooded the streets of France's capital city this morning -- part of country-wide push-back against President Nicolas Sarkozy's proposed austerity plan (which includes, among other simply intolerable measures, a new retirement...
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Thu, Jun 06 2010 10:15 AM
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Argentine courts to give Spain a taste of its own medicine
Spanish investigative judge Baltasar Garzon has made a name for himself by prosecuting human rights abusers around the world -- including former Chilean leader Augusto Pinochet -- using universal jurisdiction to get around national amnesties. But Garzon...
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Wed, Apr 04 2010 10:41 AM
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No lawyers for Swiss animals
A setback for animal-rights activists in Switzerland: Voters in Switzerland have rejected a proposal to introduce a nationwide system of state-funded lawyers to represent animals in court. Animal rights groups had proposed the move, saying that without...
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Mon, Mar 03 2010 9:26 AM
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Seven arrested in Italian-Iranian smuggling sting
Though Iranian-Italian relations don't often make the headlines, trade between the two countries is estimated to be in the neighborhood of $9 billion . That makes Italy Iran's largest trading partner in the EU. But perhaps the $9 billion figure...
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Wed, Mar 03 2010 10:23 AM
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Vote in your pajamas in sunny Catalunya
For the past few months, a cynical observer might think, Washington has carried out a long piece of performance art detailing the many ways in which passing legislation is hard, even with the White House and Congress in one party's hands. There are...
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Tue, Feb 02 2010 3:10 PM
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Reprieve for Berlusconi
Reuters reports that an Italian judge has delayed the resumption of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's tax fraud trial until January, at least. Why? "Pressing state business" -- that is, presiding over a U.N. summit on hunger in Rome. But...
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Mon, Nov 11 2009 9:25 AM
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Marijuana policy controversy continues in UK
"Some people get the giggles after using cannabis -- you may laugh at the most random things" cautions "FRANK," the UK's anti-drug website. Despite declining drug use in the country, in January the British government changed marijuana's...
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Wed, Nov 11 2009 12:34 PM
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