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WTO Chief Pascal Lamay: Free Trade and Interdependence Help Promote Freedom, Human Rights and Civil Liberties
Geneva :: Switzerland | about 9 hours ago
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Investigative journalist Greg Palast files a report from Geneva where he interviews WTO Director General Pascal Lamy to see how much the organization and its priorities have changed over the past 10 years.
Tags: Switzerland, Geneva, Diplomatic conferences, International trade, Politics, Pascal, World government, World Trade Organization, Greg Palast, Pascal Lamy
'Cross on flag' flap
Milan :: Italy | about 9 hours ago
Credibility A prominent rightwing politician on Monday called for a cross to be added to the Italian flag, drawing angry responses from majority and opposition figures. Junior Transport Minister Roberto Castelli of the Northern League, a member of the governing centre-right...
Tags: minarets, swiss, islam, Italy, Roberto Castelli, Milan, Lega Nord, Politics, Minaret, Franco Frattini, Roberto Calderoli, Flag of Italy, Flag, Gianfranco Fini, The People of Freedom, Switzerland, Referendum, Umberto Bossi, Arabic architecture, Castelli, Religion Belief
EXCLUSIVE: U.N.'s Environmental Power Grab
Zurich :: Switzerland | about 10 hours ago
Credibility Copenhagen conference on "climate change," which starts on Dec...U.N. organizations customarily use to swaddle their objectives...Other participants included Janos Pasztor, currently head of the team pushing U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's unprecedented...
Tags: UNEP, U.N., United Nations Environmental Program, Copenhagen, civil society, private sectors, Fox News, strategic plan, Mark Halle, paper puts, Switzerland, Zurich
Field hockey targets India to help boost income
Lausanne :: Switzerland | about 10 hours ago
Credibility We want to locate our top properties into our top markets,’ Troendle said. ‘Today we are totally invisible.
Tags: India, field hockey, boost income, help boost, hockey targets, targets india, Switzerland, Lausanne, International Hockey Federation, Hockey Champions Trophy, allnews, Hockey World Cup, Honda, Field hockey in India
The power of provocation is on show in Switzerland and Iran
Zurich :: Switzerland | about 11 hours ago
Credibility The tactic works even when your opponent knows what you're up to...Swiss Muslims keep a low profile so as not to excite the numerous people there who hate and fear them. But the fear is so widespread that a political party can prosper by demanding a referendum...
Tags: swiss, minarets, Iranian, religion, SVP, Israel, Switzerland, Muslim, Swiss People's Party, uranium enrichment, Zurich, Enriched uranium, Iran, Politics, Minaret, Politics of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Jeffrey Owens, Director, Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD
Paris :: France | about 11 hours ago
Credibility India was moving in the right direction on tax policy reforms, what is crucial is the implementation of the GST. Dr Owens is a votary on tax rules that facilitate cross border trade and investment and has also spearheaded initiatives to crack down on...
Tags: India, OECD, tax haven, Dr Jeffrey Owens, multi nationals, policy reforms, tax rate, Switzerland, low tax, Dr Owens, France, Paris, Taxation, International trade, Offshore finance, Finance, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Business Finance, Tax, International taxation
Swiss minarets: is Europe following the Arabs down path of self-pity and xenophobia? | Michael White
Olten :: Switzerland | about 11 hours ago
Credibility is EU following Arabs down path of self-pity and xenophobia? Europe and the Arab street are both grappling with a fast-changing world where Asia is becoming more important for the first time in centuries One of only four minarets in Switzerland, on a...
Tags: Switzerland, Europe, Nasser, Tariq Ramadan, Olten, Ramadan, Personae non gratae, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Arab nationalism, White people, Arab people
UN aid agency makes record $7.1bn appeal for 2010
Geneva :: Switzerland | about 11 hours ago
Credibility The United Nations launched an appeal Monday for $7.1 billion in humanitarian aid for 2010 but said it was finalizing calls for about a billion more, which would push the request to a record high. The amount did not include the requirements for Iraq,...
Tags: The United Nations, Switzerland, Geneva, Politics, Humanitarian aid, Consolidated Appeals Process, Civil Affairs, Aid, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Humanitarianism, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mine clearance agencies, Gaza Strip aid, Central Emergency Response Fund, IRIN, Israel-Gaza conflict, Disaster Accident, Humanitarian crisis
BMW's Theissen leaves Formula 1
Zurich :: Switzerland | about 12 hours ago
Credibility But the German, who led the Swiss-based team last season, will continue in his role as BMW's motorsport director. "After BMW announced they were pulling out, it was left up to Mario to decide and he has said he will stay as motorsport director," said...
Tags: motorsport director, BMW, Switzerland, Zurich, Theissen, Sauber, Mario Theissen, allnews, BMW Sauber, Robert Kubica, Procar, Nick Heidfeld, Peter Sauber, BMW in motorsport
Swiss Ban on Mosque Minarets - Analysis and Impact
The Swiss Government has recently banned the building of Minarets in Mosques. The ban comes as a result of a recently held referendum in Switzerland. According to New York Times story: The Swiss on Sunday overwhelmingly imposed a national ban...
Tags: Islam, Mosques, Religion, Switzerland, Swiss, Minarets, Human Rights
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