Credit Suisse
12 Jun 2023
The merger was finalised just under three months after a rapid agreement brokered by the Swiss government. Meanwhile, European leaders are exerting pressure on Tunisia to accept a $1.9 billion IMF bailout. In other news, financier George Soros is transferring control of his $25 billion empire to his 37-year-old son.
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Taiwan's claim to be a regional bastion of human rights is undermined by its retention of capital punishment, activists say as they campaign to exonerate the island's oldest death row prisoner.
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Thousands of people in Portugal are marking the fiftieth anniversary of the country's Carnation Revolution – a military coup that put an end to Europe's longest dictatorship and to 13 years of colonial wars in Africa.
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Antony Blinken arrived in China for his second visit in a year to discuss a range of issues amid rising tensions between the two countries.
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Police in Germany have arrested a staff member of the German far-right Alternative for Germany party. Prosecutors say the individual was spying on behalf of China.
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Russia's invasion of Ukraine has pushed enlargement back on top of Europe's agenda. But taking in new members would strain the bloc's budget.