GENEVA – HSBC says it will pay 40 million Swiss francs ($43 million) to settle a money laundering investigation by Geneva prosecutors into its Swiss subsidiary. Prosecutors have said they were investigating HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SA and persons unknown for suspected aggravated money laundering. The investigation unfolded after an …
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BERLIN – The Swiss government says diplomat Heidi Tagliavini plans to step down as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s representative in talks between Moscow, Kiev and pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine. Tagliavini, who previously worked on crises in places including Chechnya and Georgia, has played a low-key but …
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EL-ARISH, Egypt – Egyptian security and hospital officials say two militant attacks in the restive northern part of the Sinai Peninsula have killed one soldier and wounded four. In one Monday attack, they say fighters ambushed a military checkpoint near the town of Sheikh Zuweyid, firing several mortar shells that …
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BENGHAZI, Libya – Al-Qaida-linked militants are battling an Islamic State affiliate in eastern Libya after one of their leaders was shot dead by masked gunmen. Nasr Akr, an al-Qaida-inspired militant once jailed in the U.K. on terrorism charges, was assassinated along with his aide in the eastern town of Darna, …
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BERLIN – Swiss prosecutors say they are conducting an espionage investigation amid suspicions that Swiss hotels hosting talks on Iran’s nuclear program have been targeted in a cyber-spying campaign. Kaspersky, a cybersecurity firm, said this week it uncovered the campaign and that the malware was so sophisticated it must have …
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PARIS – Paris airport police held a 6-year-old French girl for three days on the mistaken suspicion she had a fake passport — until a judge ordered her released into her mother’s arms. Lawyer Sidonie Leoue said Friday that the girl was detained Saturday at Charles de Gaulle airport, after …
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LONDON – Police in Britain say that one of the three sisters who disappeared in the Middle East with their nine children has made contact with her family. West Yorkshire police said in a statement Wednesday there is an indication that the family has crossed into Syria, “but this is …
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UNITED NATIONS – More than 70 countries have signed a letter demanding that Syria stop indiscriminate aerial attacks that have killed thousands of civilians and urging the U.N. Security Council to prevent the Syrian Air Force from future attacks including dropping barrel bombs. The letter said Syrian air force helicopters …
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An independent probe into fraud allegations at the $28 billion global health fund supported by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda will be announced later this week, perhaps as early as Wednesday, Fox News has learned. The investigation was originally demanded by the government of Germany, which last …
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – The Ethiopian government says it is working with the International Criminal Police Organization, or Interpol, to repatriate 80 suspected human smugglers as the country struggles to stem the wave of migrants leaving the country. The chief of the Illegal Human Trafficking Crime Investigation Division of Ethiopia’s …
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