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With FIFA Scandal, Switzerland Raises Its Profile on the World Stage
The long arm of American justice had already been shaking up Switzerland, a country with a vaunted culture of secrecy. The arrests of several officials of FIFA, soccer's governing body, in a highly coordinated operation during which plainclothes Swiss officers raided a five-star hotel overlooking Lake Zurich, have a firm legal basis in both countri...
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Venerable Five-Star Hotel Is Unlikely Setting for a Raid
The Baur au Lac, which overlooks Lake Zurich, provided an unlikely setting for the apprehension of six global soccer executives who were arrested on corruption charges and now face extradition to the United States. The operation took less than two hours and was strikingly peaceful - no handcuffs, no guns drawn.
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Swiss train crash: Signal-jumping likely cause, say investigators
Swiss investigators today pointed to signal-jumping as the likely cause of a head-on train collision in the west of the country that killed a driver and injured 26 other people.
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At 73, Tina Turner marries partner Erwin Bach
American singer Tina Turner married her companion of 27 years, German music producer Erwin Bach, on the banks of Switzerland's Lake Zurich.
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With FIFA Scandal, Switzerland Raises Its Profile on the World Stage
The long arm of American justice had already been shaking up Switzerland, a country with a vaunted culture of secrecy. The arrests of several officials of FIFA, soccer's governing body, in a highly coordinated operation during which plainclothes Swiss officers raided a five-star hotel overlooking Lake Zurich, have a firm legal basis in both countri...
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Venerable Five-Star Hotel Is Unlikely Setting for a Raid
The Baur au Lac, which overlooks Lake Zurich, provided an unlikely setting for the apprehension of six global soccer executives who were arrested on corruption charges and now face extradition to the United States. The operation took less than two hours and was strikingly peaceful - no handcuffs, no guns drawn.
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Swiss train crash: Signal-jumping likely cause, say investigators
Swiss investigators today pointed to signal-jumping as the likely cause of a head-on train collision in the west of the country that killed a driver and injured 26 other people.
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At 73, Tina Turner marries partner Erwin Bach
American singer Tina Turner married her companion of 27 years, German music producer Erwin Bach, on the banks of Switzerland's Lake Zurich.
