International

• Friday, September 14th 2012 - 00:48 UTC

  Half a million dollars reward for information regarding fate of Raoul Wallenberg

  

  The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation is increasing to 500.000 dollars the reward it is offering to any person or entity who can provide solid and provable information on the whereabouts of Wallenberg and his chauffeur, Vilmos Langfelder, Baruch Tenembaum and Eduardo Eurnekian, Founder and Chairman of the Foundation, announced last week.

• Thursday, September 13th 2012 - 18:42 UTC

  Fed announces further financial stimuli for the US economy to help employment

  

  The US central bank announced on Thursday it will resume its policy of pumping more money into the economy via so-called quantitative easing which consists of buying “additional agency mortgage-backed securities at a pace of 40 billion dollars per month”.

• Thursday, September 13th 2012 - 17:12 UTC

  Switzerland tightens taxes on wealthy foreigners living in the country

  

  Switzerland will keep its special low-tax deals for wealthy foreigners such as music and sports celebrities but increase the amount of tax they pay following a vote by parliament which faced pressure to scrap the system.

• Thursday, September 13th 2012 - 06:12 UTC

  Ecuador and UK to retake Assange case during the coming UN General Assembly

  

  Ecuador and UK will resume talks on Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, during the coming session period of the UN General Assembly, said Ecuadorean Vice-president Lenin Moreno who anticipated a solution in accordance with “sovereignty and the law”.

• Thursday, September 13th 2012 - 06:10 UTC

  Pro-Europe parties winning in tight Dutch election

  

  Exit polls in the latest Dutch elections show Prime Minister Mark Rutte's ruling Liberal party leading by one seat. They also predict a massive loss of seats for the far-right PVV party. An exit poll by the Dutch broadcaster NOS/RTL showed the two pro-European parties, Liberal and Labour, had 41 and 40 seats respectively.

• Thursday, September 13th 2012 - 01:53 UTC

  Chile can’t forget Pinochet’s coup: a Carabinero killed, hundreds of protestors injured and arrested

  

  A Carabinero was shot dead, scores of people were injured and 255 others arrested in violent protests marking the 39th anniversary of the military coup that toppled Chilean elected Socialist president Salvador Allende in 1973, reported the Ministry of Interior on Wednesday.

• Thursday, September 13th 2012 - 01:49 UTC

  Arctic conquest: Russia building the world’s biggest nuclear powered icebreaker

  

  Russia's plans to build the world's biggest nuclear-powered icebreaker could attract more trade to the country, says a leading UK analyst. The new ship is meant to be more efficient at breaking ice and able to navigate in deep Arctic waters as well as shallow Siberian rivers.

• Wednesday, September 12th 2012 - 14:44 UTC

  Whistleblower in tax-fraud case against UBS receives 104 million dollars rewards from US

  

  The whistleblower in a breakthrough tax fraud case against Swiss bank UBS AG has won a record-setting 104 million dollars reward from the US Internal Revenue Service, a handsome payout that could entice more informants to come forward.

• Wednesday, September 12th 2012 - 14:39 UTC

  German high court says yes to Euro bail-out plan but on tough conditions

  

  Germany's Constitutional Court gave a green light for the country to ratify the Euro zone's new bailout fund and budget pact, but insisted the German parliament have veto powers over any future increases in the size of the fund.

• Wednesday, September 12th 2012 - 02:01 UTC

  Wind could meet world power demand by 2013, say Stanford researchers

  

  By Andrew Myers (*) Adapting a sophisticated climate model, researchers show that there is plenty of wind available to supply half to several times the world's total energy needs within the next two decades.