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Former France captain Zinedine Zidane will appear before Fifa’s disciplinary committee in Zurich on Thursday to give his account of the incident in which he headbutted an…
Swiss thwart plot to attack El Al plane
Swiss justice authorities said on Thursday that they had thwarted a plot by a group of North Africans to attack a plane of the Israeli airline El Al, and had made seven arrests…
Switzerland to return $21m to Angola
Authorities will lift blocking orders on four bank accounts and return -million to Angola for use in humanitarian projects, the Swiss Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. The money…
‘Angolagate’ follows the money
Switzerland on Wednesday gave French authorities bank documents seized in an investigation of alleged money laundering linked to illicit arms sales to Angola. The Justice…
Nigeria in talks with Swiss to recover Abacha loot
Nigeria has lodged a request for judicial cooperation with Switzerland as part of an ongoing probe into an alleged multi-billion-dollar embezzlement by the late military dictator…
Mbeki says apartheid lawsuits should be dropped
The South African government does not support compensation lawsuits by apartheid victims against businesses, its president Thabo Mbeki reiterated here Tuesday.
Stemming the trade in blood diamonds
Representatives from diamond producing and trading countries, as well as the diamond industry, began a meeting in the Swiss town of Interlaken on Monday in an attempt to stop…