Topic: Switzerland
A Swiss unit of global banking giant HSBC revealed Thursday that details on 24,000 bank customers may have been leaked in a major security breach that has helped fuel pressure on Switzerland over tax evasion. Alexandre Zeller, chief executive of HSBC Private Bank (Switzerland), said 9,000 of them had left the bank since the the data theft by ...
A Libyan official called on Switzerland to make concessions in the ongoing diplomatic dispute between the countries, saying Thursday that a travel ban on leader Moammar Gadhafi was a "big humiliation" to the African country. The remarks by Libya's acting U.N. ambassador in Geneva downplayed hopes that a compromise could ...
A U.K. man says he plans to make the first round-the-world trip in a customized rotorcraft known as an autogyro. Norman Surplus says he hopes to kick off his 27,000 mile (43,000 kilometer) circumnavigation from the seaside town of Larne in Northern Ireland. The Switzerland ...
