GenevaLunch » Baghdad http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:16:25 +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 Multiple bomb attacks in Baghdad worst in months http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/02/multiple-bomb-attacks-in-baghdad-worst-in-months/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/02/multiple-bomb-attacks-in-baghdad-worst-in-months/#comments Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:14:35 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=49323 GenevaLunch.com Baghdad on Tuesday 2 November went through its worst day of attacks in months, with suicide bombers striking several areas at the same time, killing scores of people (unconfirmed numbers vary from 20 to 80) and injuring many more (unconfirmed numbers vary from 150-300) several news agencies are reporting. There is confusion over the number [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/02/multiple-bomb-attacks-in-baghdad-worst-in-months/feed/ 0 Swiss lifestyle: Geneva, Zurich high on best cities list (update) http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/05/26/swiss-lifestyle-geneva-zurich-high-on-best-cities-list-update/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/05/26/swiss-lifestyle-geneva-zurich-high-on-best-cities-list-update/#comments Wed, 26 May 2010 09:33:56 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=42345 GenevaLunch.com Swiss top 16 countries for honesty, Nation Brands Index places country at 8 Update 16: 30  [Video] Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Zurich and Geneva once again come in second and third in the Mercer city quality of living rankings, following Vienna, Austria and just ahead of Vancouver, Canada. Mercer notes that these are not quality [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/05/26/swiss-lifestyle-geneva-zurich-high-on-best-cities-list-update/feed/ 0 Baghdad double suicide blasts bloodbath provoke international outrage http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/26/baghdad-double-suicide-blasts-bloodbath-provoke-international-outrage/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/26/baghdad-double-suicide-blasts-bloodbath-provoke-international-outrage/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:51:17 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=30395 GenevaLunch.com Update 05:05 More than 150 people are dead and 520 wounded as a result of two suicide bombs that went off in the Green Zone, also known as the International Zone, in the centre of Baghdad, Iran, Sunday 25 October mid-morning. The bombers drove trucks into an area where security has been eased in recent [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/26/baghdad-double-suicide-blasts-bloodbath-provoke-international-outrage/feed/ 0 Scores dead in Baghdad bomb blasts, 300 wounded http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/19/scores-dead-in-baghdad-bomb-blasts-300-wounded/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/19/scores-dead-in-baghdad-bomb-blasts-300-wounded/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:30:51 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=25368 GenevaLunch.com Two massive bombs went off in the central part of Baghdad, killing more than 75 people and leaving more than 300 wounded. A  truck with a bomb hidden in it went off outside of the Iraqi foreign ministry, just outside of  the protected Green Zone. It left a crater 3 metres deep and 10 metres [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/19/scores-dead-in-baghdad-bomb-blasts-300-wounded/feed/ 2 First world humanitarian day celebrated in Geneva today http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/19/first-world-humanitarian-day-celebrated-in-geneva-today/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/19/first-world-humanitarian-day-celebrated-in-geneva-today/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:07:59 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=25348 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Geneva observes the first world humanitarian day today 19 August to coincide with the death of  Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN’s top official in Iraq who died in 2003 along with 21 others in a bomb explosion at UN headquarters in Baghdad. As headquarters of the UN in Europe, Geneva [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/19/first-world-humanitarian-day-celebrated-in-geneva-today/feed/ 0 Iraq security shaky as scores die from bombs http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/10/iraq-security-shaky-as-scores-die-from-bombs/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/10/iraq-security-shaky-as-scores-die-from-bombs/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:50:01 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=24564 GenevaLunch.com Car and truck bombs going off in several parts of Iraq since Friday have killed at least 75 people and injured scores more, as the country struggles to maintain security in the wake of US troops leaving urban areas to local police and Awakening Councils. Reports are still unclear about the magnitude of the lastest [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/10/iraq-security-shaky-as-scores-die-from-bombs/feed/ 0 Ambassador Angelina in Iraq sees small progress during third visit http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/24/ambassador-angelina-in-iraq-sees-small-progress-during-third-visit/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/24/ambassador-angelina-in-iraq-sees-small-progress-during-third-visit/#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:25:00 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=22898 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – UNHCR’s goodwill ambassador, Angelina Jolie, paid a visit to some of the estimated 1.6 million internally displaced people (IDPs) in Iraq Thursday 23 July, her third to the country. Jolie spoke to some families in the Chikook camp northwest of Bagdhad which houses 20,000 people, mostly women and children, displaced by [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/24/ambassador-angelina-in-iraq-sees-small-progress-during-third-visit/feed/ 0 Dozens dead in Baghdad market bombing http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/25/dozens-dead-in-baghdad-market-bombing/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/25/dozens-dead-in-baghdad-market-bombing/#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:09:16 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=21049 GenevaLunch.com A bomb explosion in Mredi market, a popular market for birds in Sadr City, a poor Shia district in eastern Baghdad, Iraq killed over 70 people and wounded more than 150 early evening 24 June, just days before US military forces are to withdraw from city centres around Iraq. It was the worst such bombing [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/25/dozens-dead-in-baghdad-market-bombing/feed/ 1 New attacks in Iraq as US prepares to leave towns http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/23/new-attacks-in-iraq-as-us-prepares-to-leave-towns/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/06/23/new-attacks-in-iraq-as-us-prepares-to-leave-towns/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:15:57 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=20823 GenevaLunch.com A series of bomb attacks have killed at least 29 people in several towns and cities in Iraq Monday. Coming so soon after a weekend suicide truck explosion in Kirkuk that killed 70 people, and days before US troops are to move out of towns to mililtary bases, 30 June, there is concern that “insurgents [...]

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