Libya to put Swiss businessmen on trial Middle East Online TRIPOLI - Two Swiss businessmen barred from leaving Libya since July 2008 amid a diplomatic row with Bern are to go on trial later this year for tax evasion and over immigration laws, a senior official said on Thursday. | "The two Swiss citizens will be tried before the end of the year," Khaled Kaim...
Lifting the lid on climate change talks The Guardian | Rich countries bullying poorer ones, mud-slinging and back-stabbing - environmental summits can be vicious | Illustration: Gillian Blease | At 8am on Wednesday 7 October, a smartly dressed fiftysomething Filipino woman took the escalator to the first floor of the UN building in Bangkok and merged ...
Swiss privacy watchdog to sue Google over Street View LA Daily News | By Frank Jordans | Associated PressUpdated: 11/13/2009 10:12:28 AM PST | GENEVA — Google's unstoppable drive to map and photograph the world has run into an immovable object — Switzerland's strict tradition of personal privacy. | T...
Swiss privacy watchdog to sue Google Street View Newsday | November 13, 2009 FRANK JORDANS (Associated Press Writer) Quick Summary | Swiss privacy watchdog to take Google to court over Street View service | GENEVA - GENEVA (AP) — .'s unstoppable drive to map and photograph the world has run into an...
Swiss privacy watchdog to sue Google Street View Seattle Times GENEVA - | Google Inc.'s unstoppable drive to map and photograph the world has run into an immovable object - Switzerland's strict tradition of personal privacy. | The country's privacy watchdog announced Friday that he plans to haul the search engin...
Swiss privacy watchdog to sue Google Street View Asbury Park Press Next Page 1 | 2 Previous Page | GENEVA - Google Inc.'s unstoppable drive to map and photograph the world has run into an immovable object — Switzerland's strict tradition of personal privacy. | The country's privacy watchdog announced Friday that he ...
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Egypt offers India exclusive zone along Suez Canal The Hindu | Sujay Mehdudia | CAIRO: In recognition of India's growing role as an industrial and economic power, Egypt on Thursday offered to allow India to set up an "India Zone" along the S...
UNCC compensates Kuwait with $610m China Daily | GENEVA: The United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) paid Kuwait $610 million on Thursday in compensation for losses and damages resulting from Iraq's 1990-1991 invasion and...
"Cheers" star Danson wants WTO to save fisheries Philadelphia Daily News | BRADLEY S. KLAPPER | The Associated Press | GENEVA - Actor Ted Danson called Thursday for tough limits on subsidies that are promoting overfishing around the globe. | In an inter...
MNCs working against Indian drug firms, Anand Sharma tells WIPO chief The Times Of India NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday complained to the UN intellectual property rights body, WIPO, that some multinational firms have launched campaign against country's pharmaceutical industry, which has broken their "cartel" in the generic drugs. | "We kn...
Cutting Edge Wall Street Journal By DAVID BAIN | On the northern shore of Lake Geneva a luxury residential block is being built. Located about an hour's drive from Geneva, Du Parc Kempinski boasts twoand three-bedroom apartments on sale for between €4 million ($6 million) and ...
Lifting the lid on climate change talks The Guardian | Rich countries bullying poorer ones, mud-slinging and back-stabbing - environmental summits can be vicious | Illustration: Gillian Blease | At 8am on Wednesday 7 October, a smartly dressed fiftysomething Filipino woman took the escalator to the fir...
Is frog delicacy on its last legs? Swissinfo English Killing a frog to eat only its thighs is as absurd as butchering an elephant for its ivory, claims a Swiss animal rights organisation. | Every year the Swiss nibble away at 120 tons of frogs' legs – 90 per cent of which are imported from Indonesia. | After fur coats and foie gras, the Vaud Society for the Protection of Animals (SVPA) this month l...
"Cheers" star Danson wants WTO to save fisheries Philadelphia Daily News | BRADLEY S. KLAPPER | The Associated Press | GENEVA - Actor Ted Danson called Thursday for tough limits on subsidies that are promoting overfishing around the globe. | In an interview with The Associated Press, the actor said the World Trade Organization needed to address the problem of boats fishing on the high seas longer and farther away from p...
