GenevaLunch » Afghanistan http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:57:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Afghanistan blasts kill 58, deflating small hopes from conference http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/07/afghanistan-blasts-kill-58-deflating-small-hopes-from-conference/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/07/afghanistan-blasts-kill-58-deflating-small-hopes-from-conference/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:44:17 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64534 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLEAND -Western leaders’ promises of help to the Afghan government when their troops leave, made Monday at an international conference in Germany, appeared to offer smaller hopes of peace following deadly attacks in Kabul and a city in the north Tuesday 6 December. Close to 60 people died and 160 were injured when a [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/07/afghanistan-blasts-kill-58-deflating-small-hopes-from-conference/feed/ 0 Pakistan-US relations taut after Nato airstrike kills 24 soldiers http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/27/pakistan-us-relations-taut-after-nato-airstrike-kills-24-soldiers/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/27/pakistan-us-relations-taut-after-nato-airstrike-kills-24-soldiers/#comments Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:11:21 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64140 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Pakistan’s foreign minister reportedly had harsh words for US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a phone call early Sunday 27 November, in the wake of a Nato airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. The soldiers were buried Sunday. The deaths were the result of a “tragic unintended incident”  Saturday, said Nato [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/27/pakistan-us-relations-taut-after-nato-airstrike-kills-24-soldiers/feed/ 0 UN refugee agency in Kandahar attacked, 3 dead, 2 wounded http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/31/un-refugee-agency-in-kandahar-attacked-3-dead-2-wounded/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/31/un-refugee-agency-in-kandahar-attacked-3-dead-2-wounded/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:48:50 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63028 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Three staff members died and two others were injured when a suicide bomb went off at the UNHCR (UN High Commissioner for Refugees) head office in Kandahar, Afghanistan about 08:00 Monday morning 31 October.The Geneva-based agency says the functioning of its office in Kandahar has been seriously disrupted. The agency has “facilitated [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/31/un-refugee-agency-in-kandahar-attacked-3-dead-2-wounded/feed/ 0 Kabul standoff ends with seven dead http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/14/kabul-standoff-ends-with-seven-dead/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/14/kabul-standoff-ends-with-seven-dead/#comments Wed, 14 Sep 2011 06:22:59 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=61560 GenevaLunch.com KABUL – Six Taliban insurgents were killed after a 20-hour standoff in the heart of Kabul’s diplomatic and military enclave. “The operation just ended and 6 terrorists were killed by police,” spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said on Twitter. The number was updated to seven later in the day. Fifteen others were wounded. The Taliban-led gunmen shot [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/14/kabul-standoff-ends-with-seven-dead/feed/ 0 Did they or didn’t they: Nato looks at Taliban role in ‘copter crash http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/07/did-they-or-didnt-they-nato-looks-at-taliban-role-in-copter-crash/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/07/did-they-or-didnt-they-nato-looks-at-taliban-role-in-copter-crash/#comments Sun, 07 Aug 2011 20:49:32 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=60466 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND = The Taliban say they did it but Nato’s ISAF (International Security Assistance Force for Afghanistan)  says it is looking into what caused the crash of the helicopter that went down 6 August in Afghanistan, killing 31 US troops and 7 other people on board. Many of the soldiers killed were from the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/08/07/did-they-or-didnt-they-nato-looks-at-taliban-role-in-copter-crash/feed/ 0 Europe in shock, worried, over Oslo’s 87 deaths (update) http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/23/europe-in-shock-worried-over-oslos-87-deaths-update/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/23/europe-in-shock-worried-over-oslos-87-deaths-update/#comments Sat, 23 Jul 2011 07:12:16 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=60125 GenevaLunch.com Norwegian media point to lone gunman, naming him and publishing photos Update 9:20  GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The death toll had risen to 87 by Saturday morning in Oslo, Norway, from a bomb at a government office and a gunman’s shooting spree at a youth political camp near the city. It is Europe’s worst attack since [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/23/europe-in-shock-worried-over-oslos-87-deaths-update/feed/ 2 Good guy to some, bad guy to others: Afghan central banker flees http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/28/good-guy-to-some-bad-guy-to-others-afghan-central-banker-flees/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/28/good-guy-to-some-bad-guy-to-others-afghan-central-banker-flees/#comments Tue, 28 Jun 2011 08:01:08 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=59255 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Abdul Qadeer Fitrat, the head of Afghanistan’s central bank, has fled to the US, where he has a residence, saying that his investigations into corruption have put his life in danger. The BBC reports a government spokesman in Afghanistan as saying that the resignation amounted to treason, noting that “Waheed Omar, Afghan [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/28/good-guy-to-some-bad-guy-to-others-afghan-central-banker-flees/feed/ 0 World’s poorest nations are hosting 80% of refugees, UN report says http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/20/worlds-poorest-nations-are-hosting-80-of-refugees-un-report-says/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/20/worlds-poorest-nations-are-hosting-80-of-refugees-un-report-says/#comments Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:01:05 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=58961 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The numbers alone are daunting: 43.7 million displaced persons worldwide, of which 15.4m are refugees, 27.5m are internally displaced refugees and nearly 850,000 are asylum seekers, with one-fifth of asylum seekers in South Africa alone. The world’s 49 least developed countries hosted some 2 million refugees last year. Just under 100,000 refugees [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/20/worlds-poorest-nations-are-hosting-80-of-refugees-un-report-says/feed/ 3 Reactions flow in to Obama’s new of Bin-laden death (update) http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/02/reactions-flow-in-to-obamas-new-of-bin-laden-death/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/02/reactions-flow-in-to-obamas-new-of-bin-laden-death/#comments Mon, 02 May 2011 08:30:09 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=57125 GenevaLunch.com Update 11:15 US President Barack Obama announced in the early hours of Monday 2 May, Swiss time, that Western nemesis and terrorist leader Osama bin Laden was killed in an attack in Pakistan. He was killed in a US raid on the luxury residence near a Pakistani military base where he was staying in Abbottabad, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/02/reactions-flow-in-to-obamas-new-of-bin-laden-death/feed/ 0 Asylum seekers number continue to fall: half of 2001 level http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/28/asylum-seekers-number-continue-to-fall-half-of-2001-level/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/28/asylum-seekers-number-continue-to-fall-half-of-2001-level/#comments Sun, 27 Mar 2011 22:02:00 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=55804 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The number of asylum seekers in the world has been halved in the past 10 years, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees says in its 2010 annual asylum report issued early Monday 27 March. Whether this is good news or bad is difficult to judge, concedes the Geneva-based organization’s head. “The [...]

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