Swiss join UN's dirty cash battle
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Switzerland becomes the first country to join a global scheme to recover cash looted by corrupt leaders.
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The UN launches an appeal for $450m to counter a worsening humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territories.
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More than one million euros is being paid each month to banking giant HSBC for them to process European Union aid to impoverished Palestinians and key workers, British aid agency Oxfam has claimed.
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The World Bank and the United Nations are creating a system to help track assets stolen by corrupt leaders.
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Donors began committing funds from around the world Monday for the moribund Palestinian economy amid a renewed international push for a Palestinian state, with the European Union promising $650 million in 2008.
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Kojo Annan, son of UN secretary general Kofi Annan, was paid $2,500 a month for over five years by a Swiss firm which had a contract under the UN&#39;s scandal ridden Iraqi &#39;oil for food&#39; program, report agencies.
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Brazil, Germany, India and Japan launched a united bid for permanent UN Security Council seats, arguing that expanded membership was crucial to addressing new global threats.
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The United Nations has charged two purchasing officers with violating U.N. rules following testimony at the trial of a former U.N. procurement official convicted last month of bribery and fraud, the U.N. said Tuesday.
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A UN inquiry finds that Pakistani peacekeepers in DR Congo were involved in gold smuggling.
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Swiss authorities will hand over millions of dollars from the accounts of ex-Congolese leader Mobutu Sese Seko.
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OBERSCHUETZEN, Austria - It was a bizarre case of "take the money and run." Thieves broke into a Bank Austria-Creditanstalt branch in the eastern Austrian province of Burgenland and made off with an entire cash machine, police said Friday.
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Swiss authorities have informed the United Nations of a "possible terrorist attack" against its European headquarters in Geneva, its biggest premises outside of New York, the world body said in a letter to staff on Thursday.
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About $3 million in United Nations money intended to help impoverished North Koreans was diverted by the Pyongyang government toward the purchase of property in France, the United Kingdom and Canada, according to a confidential State Department account of witness reports and internal business rec...
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Swiss banking giant UBS launched a 15 billion Swiss franc (9.4 billion euros, 12.3 billion dollars) share buyback scheme on Thursday, covering up to 10 percent of its capital.
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Asia's superrich are grappling with an enviable new challenge: how to give away their billions
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Brazil, Germany, Japan and India launch a joint bid for permanent seats on the UN Security Council.
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Human rights activists and Nobel Prize winners appeal to Swiss bank UBS to end its role in PetroChina's listing in Shanghai.