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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Switzerland

Switzerland stories: 112 news summaries

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Polanski Taunt Brought DA Down on Him

Director's lawyers said prosecutors weren't trying to catch him

Sep 29, 09 8:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Roman Polanski may have his own lawyers to thank for his current predicament. This summer, in an attempt to get the charges against the director dropped, they told an appellate court that prosecutors weren’t actually trying to catch him, because they were afraid to face old misconduct allegations. That... More »

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Switzerland • child molestation • prosecutorial misconduct • court • fugitive • prosecutors • Roman Polanski • appellate court

Roman Polanski Will Fight Extradition: Lawyer 

French, Polish ministers ask Clinton for leniency

Sep 28, 09 2:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Roman Polanski is “shocked and dumbfounded” by the Swiss government’s decision to arrest him but is “in fighting mood” and won't be extradited easily, his lawyer said today. Diplomatic wrangling continued over Polanski’s fate, as the French and Polish foreign ministers said they had written to... More »

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Poland • France • Switzerland • Harvey Weinstein • Roman Polanski • child rape • Monica Bellucci • Fanny Ardant

Treating Addicts With
Heroin Gains Steam

British study finds benefits in giving addicts their fix

Sep 28, 09 12:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Giving heroin to heroin addicts may not sound like a great idea, but it could soon become the preferred treatment for hardcore addicts. Switzerland and a handful of other countries already have clinics that administer small, supervised doses to addicts, and Britain could be next after completing a four-year trial... More »

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drug addiction • heroin • Switzerland • addiction • alternative treatment • Britain • methadone

 Polanski Victim: 'I'm Over It' 

Mom of three is sick and tired of sordid case

Sep 28, 09 5:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - The woman Roman Polanski had sex with when she was 13 never wants to hear about the case again. "I have survived, indeed prevailed, against whatever harm Mr. Polanski may have caused me as a child," Samantha Geimer, 45, said early this year after filing court papers to... More »

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crime • France • Switzerland • sex • Roman Polanski • 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired' • Samantha Geimer • statutory rape

 French, Swiss 
 Battle Over 
 Polanski 

Director's lawyer vows to fight extradition

Sep 28, 09 1:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - The French and Swiss government bickered angrily over Roman Polanski yesterday as the film director's arrest strained diplomatic relations. France's culture minister said he was “stupefied” by the arrest, while President Nicolas Sarkozy called for a “rapid solution”—presumably one that involved letting Polanski return to France.... More »

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film • Nicolas Sarkozy • France • Switzerland • extradition • Roman Polanski

Swiss Politicians Battle 'Suicide Tourism'

As Britain eases rules, Switzerland fears rush of ill bent on killing themselves

Sep 21, 09 5:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Swiss politicians have stepped up efforts to battle "suicide tourism" as British officials prepare to announce new rules expected to make it easier for citizens to cross borders to die, reports the Independent. Some 115 Britons have died at assisted suicide operations run by Dignitas in Switzerland. Assisted suicide... More »

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suicide • assisted suicide • Switzerland • Dignitas • multiple sclerosis • Britain • clinic

 Corpse 
 Sex Show 
 Stirs Up Swiss 

Exhibit ignites outrage in Europe

Sep 16, 09 3:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - German anatomist Gunther von Hagens just opened his traveling corpse sex show in Zurich and is steeled for controversy, reports Gawker. Von Hagens discovered a way to plasticize human bodies and has exhibited corpses stripped of their skin all over the world doing various activities. His latest show revealing bodies... More »

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Europe • Switzerland • sex • Zurich • Grateful Dead • Gunther von Hagens • cadaver • Life Cycles

US OPEN MEN'S FINAL

 Del Potro Dethrones Federer 

Argentine, 20, ends Swiss star's run at five

Sep 14, 09 8:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Juan Martin del Potro dethroned five-time defending US Open champ Roger Federer today, the New York Times reports, earning his first Grand Slam title with a 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4, 7-6 (4), 6-2 victory. Del Potro, a 20-year-old from Argentina, had never beaten Federer, the 28-year-old Swiss who has won... More »

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Roger Federer • Switzerland • Argentina • Grand Slam • US Open Tennis • Juan Martin del Potro

 Jewish Engineer Designed 
 Beetle: Historian 

Hitler ordered Porsche to replicated Josef Ganz's prototype

Sep 14, 09 5:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Adolf Hitler took the original design for the Volkswagen Beetle from the brainchild of a Jewish engineer, the Jerusalem Post reports. Historian Paul Schilperoord claims in his forthcoming book The True History of the Beetle that a prototype Josef Ganz designed in the late '20s had many of the Beetle’... More »

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Germany • Jews • Switzerland • Adolf Hitler • Nazi • World War II • Volkswagen • beetle • Josef Ganz • Ferdinand Porsche

OPINION

Liberals Ought to Ditch the Public Option

An incentivized private market can cover everyone, at lower cost

Sep 8, 09 11:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Liberals need to abandon the notion that no health care reform is acceptable without a public option, former Clinton aide and health industry consultant Matt Miller writes in the Washington Post. Progressives’ top priority should be to make sure every American can access group coverage outside an employment... More »

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Switzerland • Netherlands • health care industry • Clinton administration • health care reform • public option

 Gadhafi to 
 Urge UN 
 to Abolish 
 Switzerland 

Libyan leader seeks revenge for son's arrest, wants nation busted up

Sep 4, 09 3:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Moammar Gadhafi plans to urge the United Nations to wipe Switzerland off the map when he visits New York later this month, the New York Daily News reports. The Libyan leader—as part of a vendetta against the Alpine nation that began when his son Hannibal was busted for beating... More »

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United Nations • Switzerland • Libya • Moammar Gadhafi • Hannibal Qaddafi

(AP) - A Swiss government official is demanding that Google immediately remove any image of Switzerland from its "Street View Maps," and the company said today it would discuss the matter with the privacy rights regulator. Switzerland's federal data protection commissioner says Google's pictures violate the country's strict privacy laws... More »

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Google • privacy • Switzerland • Internet privacy • Google Street View

(Newser) - UBS will hand over the names of 4,450 of its American account holders as part of a tax evasion settlement, the Wall Street Journal reports, and another 5,000 names will be produced under a special IRS amnesty program. UBS won’t pay a monetary fine. Those being... More »

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Switzerland • UBS • tax evasion • settlement • tax haven • Swiss bank

OPINION

Obamacare
Isn't 'Socialist Hellhole,' It's Switzerland

Krugman: White House plan not all that radical

Aug 17, 09 7:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Investor's Business Daily made a howler when it said the British physicist Stephen Hawking "wouldn't have a chance" under the UK's health care, but for Paul Krugman, the "vile and stupid" editorial missed the point. Obamacare doesn't look like the British system, in which government runs hospitals... More »

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health care • United Kingdom • Switzerland • universal health care • National Health Service • health care reform • Paul Krugman

(Newser) - A debate on freedom of religion featuring ultra-nationalist zealots is playing out in the most unlikely of places: a sleepy hamlet in Switzerland. A group is trying to block the construction of a 30-foot tall minaret on a mosque in Langenthal (pop. 14,000) because it's a symbol of Islam's... More »

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Islam • religion • Switzerland • minarets • Muslim • mosque • referendum

(Newser) - Swiss bank UBS AG has agreed to a settlement with the US to resolve a lengthy tax evasion probe, the Wall Street Journal reports. The details are currently under wraps, as the final documents await signatures. UBS will likely hand the IRS the names of  8,000 to 10,... More »

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Department of Justice • Switzerland • UBS • tax evasion • lawsuit • tax shelter

 Hadron Collider Hits New Snags 

CERN may run experiments through the winter to make up lost time

Jul 21, 09 2:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Large Hadron Collider has hit more delays, ZDNet reports, with experiments using the machine unlikely to restart until at least mid-November due to the discovery of two vacuum leaks. The agency overseeing the 17-mile atom-smasher buried under the French-Swiss border may take the unorthodox step of running its “... More »

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Switzerland • Big Bang • experiments • Alps • CERN • Large Hadron Collider • particle physics • God particle

(Newser) - Aiming to avoid an ugly international dispute, the US government, Switzerland, and a Swiss bank are seeking to delay a hearing over private bank accounts, the Wall Street Journal reports. The respite would give government officials and UBS until August to strike a deal over data on some 52,000... More »

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Department of Justice • fraud • IRS • federal courts • Switzerland • UBS • tax evasion • bank

(Newser) - A British skier who fell into a crevasse in the Swiss Alps was saved from plummeting 700 feet to his death when the BlackBerry in his breast pocket stopped his fall, the Telegraph reports. The extra width of the half-inch-thick gadget kept David Fitzherbert, 52, wedged firmly in place for... More »

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Switzerland • BlackBerry • Alps • ski accidents

$134B Bond Fraud May Be Mob Handiwork

US, Italian authorities blame organized crime for huge counterfeiting

Jun 19, 09 8:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - The counterfeit bonds with a face value of $134 billion seized near the Swiss border are probably the work of the Mafia, say Italian and American secret services. The mystery surrounding the suitcase stuffed with fake US Treasury bonds deepened yesterday, after a blog revealed that police had released the... More »

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Italy • Switzerland • counterfeit • debt • Mafia • bonds • Sicilian mafia • counterfeiters • Treasury bills

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