Feds probe financier Allen Stanford’s links to lawmakers | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle. Good investigative journalism on display here –
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Europe unites to deplore Swiss ban on minarets – Times Online . The Swiss and European establishment united today in deploring yesterday’s decision by Swiss
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In a Guardian article titled A jamboree of repression, Tom Porteous, director of Human Rights Watch, raises concerns about the failure amongst Commonwealth countries to
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James Moore: Lets tackle bank secrecy — everywhere – Business Comment, Business – The Independent. The spotlight that is now (belatedly) shining down on UBS
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World Vision have sent me a briefing on a new campaign they are launching. I guess a blog has reached critical mass when such things
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The following has been issued by Christian Aid, Global Witness and tear Fund and is too important not to note: Doha:  A handful of countries
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BBC – Today – Mutiny in the Caribbean . According to the report people in Turks & Caicos can’t decide if direct rule is a
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The Observer noted yesterday: International negotiators will meet this week in Qatar in an attempt to finalise the world’s first and only international corruption convention,
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FT.com / Companies / Banks – Improper trading case adds to woes for UBS. News on Thursday that employees in UBS’s wealth management division in
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