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A cache of secret bank files shows that HSBC's Swiss banking arm helped wealthy customers avoid taxes and hide millions of dollars, according to a report by a network of investigative journalists released Sunday.
      

Some 5 million people in Turkey were listened in on in 2012, Interior Minister Efkan Ala has stated, referring to a calculation that around 250,000 people who were wiretapped spoke to at least 20 people on the phone. He blamed officers affiliated with the movement of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen for the scandal.

The German movement Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA) held it first rally in Austria on Monday.

However PEGIDA failed to attract as many supporters as it usually does in its marches in Germany, the BBC reports.

BELGRADE- The 11th European Feature Documentary Film Festival Magnificent 7 opened in Belgrade on Friday, with festival director and founder Zoran Popovic, selector Tue Steen Mueller from Denmark and film director Oeke Hoogendijk from the Netherlands wishing the audience a warm welcome.

BELGRADE - The 11th European Fature Documentary Film Festival Magnificent 7 starts at Belgrade's Sava Centar on Friday and will last until February 5.

AGERPRES special correspondent Oana Ghita reports: Silver is a fine prize for Team USA at the Bocuse d'Or culinary contest, Jerome Bocuse - the president of the Sirha World Hospitality and Food Service and a founding member of Bocuse d'Or, alongside his father Paul Bocuse - told AGERPRES.

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AGERPRES special correspondent Oana Ghita reports: Norway's team has won the gold prize of the prestigious Bocuse d'Or competition that took place on January 27 and 28 during the Sirha salon in Lyon, France.

Panel of judges at Bocuse d'Or tasting the competition dishes, January 27, Lyon
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AGERPRES special correspondent Oana Ghita reports: On the second and final day of the prestigious Bocuse d'Or cooking competition, the jury who is to decide on the winner had to handle an explosion of fantasy: for their guinea fowl platter, Germany's team took inspiration from the ancestral dilemma "What came first - the egg or the chicken?", team Hungary featured in the finest gourmet competit

AGERPRES special correspondent Oana Ghita reports: The President of Hungary's team in the Bocuse d'Or cooking competition told AGERPRES that it takes more than just being a dab hand in the kitchen to participate in the famous gastronomy event.

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AGERPRES special correspondent Oana Ghita reports: The President of Hungary's team participating in Bocuse d'Or, Zoltan Hamvas, told AGERPRES that organising Bocuse d'Or Europe competition in Budapest - an event taking place next year - is very much like organising a Formula 1 event.

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