Liam Dutton
Europe floods: will the UK be affected?
Italy, Switzerland and southern parts of France have had copious amounts of rain during the last month, leading to a series of flash floods and mudslides that have claimed lives.
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Fifa suspends Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini
The outgoing Fifa president and head of Uefa are provisionally banned from football-related activity for 90 days, along with Fifa secretary-general Jerome Valcke.
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Fifa: US submits extradition requests for officials
The extradition requests relate to the arrest of seven officials from Fifa who were detained in Zurich in May after a police raid on a luxury hotel.
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Swiss officials investigating Fifa banking links
The Swiss attorney general, Michael Lauber, is looking into banking links relating to Fifa as part of a corruption investigation into the football world governing body.
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Cameron’s crusade to wipe out ‘cancer’ of corruption
Spurred on by recent allegations against Fifa, David Cameron will urge the G7 group of world leaders to target corruption in business and government around the world.
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‘Meteor’ streaks across skies of France and Austria
Dashcams record what appears to be a meteor streaking across the skies of Austria, France and Switzerland, glowing brightly before it disappears from view.
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Coutts bank in Swiss tax investigation
Coutts & Co Ltd, the private banking arm of RBS, is being investigated over allegations that its Swiss operation helped wealthy clients evade tax.
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HSBC whistleblower’s tax evasion email found
An email HSBC whistleblower Herve Falciani says he sent Revenue and Customs about alleged tax evasion comes to light.
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HSBC: whistleblower Herve Falciani talks to Channel 4 News
The theft of thousands of HSBC clients’ financial details led to a major probe into tax evasion and money laundering. In 2013, the whistleblower who took the data talked to Channel 4 News.
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HSBC accused of helping clients dodge tax
Britain’s biggest bank HSBC is accused of helping clients evade taxes after a massive cache of leaked files about secret Swiss bank accounts is published.
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Liam Dutton
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Deadly flooding in Italy and Switzerland
Heavy rain over the weekend has left at least four dead after mudslides in Switzerland and northern Italy. Recent severe storms have exposed the fragile infrastructure in many parts of Italy.
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Swiss train crash leaves carriages dangling over ravine
Eleven people are injured, five seriously, as several carriages of a Swiss train are derailed after hitting a mudslide on the track.
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When Roy Hodgson was ‘a kind of god’ (1994)
Managing England is not the easiest job in the world, as Roy Hodgson knows. But in 1994, having led the Swiss to their first World Cup finals in 28 years, Hodgson was a popular man in Switzerland.
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Keme Nzerem
Why Fifa’s credibility problem is all about transparency
Fifa President Sepp Blatter is under pressure in Brazil and at home in Switzerland to prove that his organisation is fit for purpose.
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Co-pilot ‘left on a rope’ after hijacking plane
The co-pilot who hijacked an Ethiopian Airlines plane took control of the aircraft when the pilot went to the toilet, landed in Geneva and left the aircraft through a window on a rope.
