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Financial analysts say those strong feelings are beginning to translate into financial decision making. The number of UBS customers closing their accounts is on the rise. Panagiotis Spiliopoulos, head of investment banking research at Switzerland's Vontobel bank, estimates that $15-20 billion in domestic funds were moved from UBS to smaller banks in recent months. In normal times, one bank expert says, withdrawals would be next to nothing. "We are fed up because UBS has betrayed all the values that make us uniquely Swiss: fiscal responsibility, stability and international credibility," says Samuel Bretholz, a Geneva sociology student...
...March 4, the ICC issued a warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity - the first time in the court's history it has charged a sitting head of state. There is almost no hope the warrant will be served. "As soon as al-Bashir flies outside Sudan, he could be arrested," ICC chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, told Al Jazeera on March 3. Which is to say, never...
...stock index soared some 480% before last fall's downturn. Lula seems to have cracked Latin America's chronic conundrum: how to expand underachieving economies while reducing epic inequality. In so doing, he's created a model that's "an insurance ticket, not a lottery ticket," says Marcelo Neri, head of the Center for Social Policies in Rio de Janeiro...
...chat about how in past years they had their teeth checked by Gaza's dentists, who made house calls in Sderot. The producers admit they hoped such connections would reestablish empathy between enemies. "People were watching the other side on the Internet on a daily basis," says Arik Bernstein, head of Alma Films in Tel Aviv, which produced the Sderot stories. "It was an eye-opener for both sides...
...Leader Charged The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, accusing him of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan's Darfur region, where about 300,000 people have been killed since 2003. The charges are the first for a sitting head of state since the court opened in 2002. While many hailed the milestone, others believe al-Bashir is unlikely to face justice...