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Passengers injured in Swiss train crash Two trains slammed into each other near the Swiss city of Zurich on Friday, tipping over carriages and injuring at least five people, one seriously.
20 February 2015
©REUTERS/Chris Helgren Swiss prosecutor orders probe, search of HSBC offices Investigators launched a search of British banking giant HSBC's Geneva offices as part of a money laundering probe.
18 February 2015
Photo courtesy of bursatron.com.mx HSBC boss says SwissLeaks claims 'painful' The boss of HSBC, which is at the centre of claims that it helped customers at its Swiss private bank avoid millions of dollars of tax.
14 February 2015
©REUTERS SwissLeaks whistleblower says tried to report tax evasion in 2008 A former HSBC employee who leaked documents alleging the bank helped wealthy customers dodge tax said he had tried to alert British authorities about evasion in 2008.
12 February 2015
©REUTERS HSBC not protected from charges over aiding tax evasion: US official HSBC's 2012 criminal settlement with the US Justice Department does not protect the bank from fraud or tax evasion charges.
11 February 2015
HSBC 'SwissLeaks' leaker urges more support for whistleblowers The man who stole the trove of secret files that sparked a global scandal over banking giant HSBC's alleged assistance to wealthy tax dodgers.
10 February 2015
Kerry arrives in Basel for OSCE talks on Ukraine US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Basel evening for a meeting of top diplomats from some 50 OSCE countries which will focus on the spiralling Ukraine crisis.
04 December 2014
HSBC unit fined $12.5 mn for unregistered US services A Swiss unit of British bank HSBC has agreed to pay $12.5 million for flouting US rules requiring registration of cross-border brokerage services.
26 November 2014
Swiss firm to put Napoleon's DNA in watches Napoleon's admirers will be able to carry his DNA on their wrists after a Swiss company announced its plans to sell watches containing a fragment of the emperor's hair.
26 November 2014
Didier Burkhalter. Photo courtesy of novostipmr.com Swiss President to pay official visit to Kazakhstan President of Switzerland Didier Burkhalter will pay an official visit to Kazakhstan on November 20.
18 November 2014
Black weekend as storms lash Italy, Switzerland, France At least four people were killed as landslides triggered by torrential rain slammed into buildings on either side of the Swiss-Italian border.
17 November 2014
Italian physicist Gianotti first woman to lead Cern Italian physicist Fabiola Gianotti was chosen to lead the Cern particle physics research centre, the first woman to head up the globally renowned laboratory.
05 November 2014
Mikhail Kukushkin. Photo ©REUTERS Kukushkin wins Wawrinka in first round of Swiss Indoors Kazakhstani tennis player Mikhail Kukushkin has won the fourth best tennis player in the world Stanislas Wawrinka from Switzerland in Basel.
27 October 2014
Che photographer Burri dies aged 81 Swiss photographer Rene Burri, celebrated for his portraits of Che Guevara and Pablo Picasso, died Monday in Zurich aged 81.
21 October 2014
Emir Baigazins Wounded Angel receives Hubert Bals Fund Emir Baigazin, the Kazakh director of Harmony Lessons, has been chosen one of the 11 winners of the Hubert Bals Fund.
17 October 2014
Swiss voters reject shift to state-run health insurance Swiss voters rejected a plan to ditch the country's all-private health insurance system and create a state-run scheme, exit polls showed.
29 September 2014
Roche breast cancer drug 'helps patients live longer': study A drug developed by Swiss giant Roche to treat an aggressive form of breast cancer has been shown to extend patients' lives by almost 16 months.
29 September 2014
Illustration ©tengrinews Kazakhstan Majilis ratifies migrant readmission agreement with Switzerland Kazakhstan's Majilis has approved the draft law ratifying the agreement between Kazakhstan and Switzerland on readmission of persons residing without authorization.
23 September 2014
©REUTERS Physicists achieve longer distance quantum teleportation Physicists in Switzerland said they had succeeded in teleporting the quantum state of a photon to a crystal.
22 September 2014
Photo © tengrinews Children Protection Committee unveils adoption statistic in Kazakhstan 66 Kazakhstani children have been adopted by foreigners since last year.
15 September 2014

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