Swiss will return Mobutu millions
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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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The Swiss government has promised an additional SFr25 million ($22 million) in immediate aid to countries hit by the tidal waves in southeast Asia.
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Switzerland's second-biggest banking group Credit Suisse said it plans to add up to 4,000 employees to double its staff for Asian operations over the next two years.
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The move was part of a push by the company to return billions of dollars to its shareholders.
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The Swiss bank won't be the last to announce such a writedown.
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Switzerland says it will hand back to Nigeria $500m allegedly embezzled by the late military ruler Sani Abacha.
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The countries plan to raise at least $300 million next year to help pay for the treatment of children with AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
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Swisscom  has agreed to  repurchase a 25 percent stake in Swisscom Mobile from British  mobile phone company Vodafone  for 4.25 billion Swiss  francs ($3.48 billion), in a long-awaited deal.
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AMSTERDAM -- Steel tycoon Lakshmi N. Mittal yesterday said he would pay $4.5 billion in cash and stock for US steelmaker International Steel Group Inc., which had been cobbled together by onetime investment banker Wilbur L. Ross Jr. from mills whose parents landed in bankruptcy court.
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Credit Suisse will fully integrate its  investment bank Credit Suisse First Boston with the rest of its  banking business, the Swiss group said on Tuesday, as it set  ambitious earnings targets for 2007.
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Zurich - $500-million siphoned into Swiss banks by Nigeria&#39;s former dictator Sani Abacha will be returned to the oil-rich African country, Switzerland&#39;s Federal Office of Justice said on Wednesday.
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The widow of late French President Francois Mitterrand is putting many of his clothes and personal effects up for sale 12 years after his death, including silk suits, top hats, crocodile-skin cases and a shapely piggy-bank.
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Switzerland has decided to return to Nigeria almost $500m allegedly stolen by late military ruler Sani Abacha.
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The government has approved measures to compensate Swiss exporters who get their fingers burned abroad.
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ERN, Switzerland, Aug. 18 - Almost all of the nearly $500 million frozen in Swiss bank accounts connected with the late Nigerian dictator, Gen. Sani Abacha, was &quot;obviously of criminal origin&quot; and may be returned to the Nigerian ...
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European shares tracked sideways near recent highs early on Thursday, but Swiss Re rallied after reassuring investors that its likely payout for Sunday's tsunami tragedy in Asia will be less than 100 million Swiss francs (&#36;88.3 million).
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The Algerian president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, is due in Bern on Tuesday for the first state visit to Switzerland since Algerian independence.