US drops case against UBS
GenevaLunch News Updated 20 March 07:15 Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - In a short, terse message, the Swiss federal government Thursday evening announced that the United States has dropped its...
View ArticleTinner affair compromise found
GenevaLunch News Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss federal council has agreed to hold back on the destruction of documents related to the St. Gallen family Tinner, allegedly implicated in an...
View ArticleUS gov’t hands over Guantanamo detainee to Geneva
GenevaLunch News Update 27 January Washington, DC / Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The US Justice Department has handed over to the Geneva and Swiss governments a man of Uzbek nationality who was...
View ArticleNY police arrest man: Times Square attempt
GenevaLunch News US federal agents and police have taken a man into custody in relation to the attempted bombing of Times Square in New York City 2 May. Faizal Shahzad, a 30-year-old naturalized US...
View ArticleUS taxpayers abroad struggle to make sense of laws, lingo
GenevaLunch News Editor’s note: the meeting in Geneva invoked the Chatham House Rule to encourage open discussion, so no names or identities of participants and presenters can be revealed Geneva,...
View ArticleNew Swiss finance sect’y says US tax treaty must be kept
GenevaLunch News Michael Ambuehl meets US press at end of two-day visit UBS agreement and new tax treaty were on the agenda Washington, DC, USA (GenevaLunch) – Switzerland’s new Head of the State...
View ArticleFilmmaker Polanski will not be extradited to US (update 4)
GenevaLunch News Filmmaker freed this noon from house arrrest in Gstaad Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – Roman Polanski, who has been under house arrest in Gstaad, canton Bern, since he posted...
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