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Bill Clinton calls for recount in Haiti election

Sean Ecker — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:19:52 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Former US President Bill Clinton has suggested that the ballots in November’s disputed election in Haiti be recounted under international supervision in order to break the deadlocked political process. The call came during meetings on international reconstruction efforts for Haiti with Haitian Premier Jean-Max Bellerive in neighbouring Dominican Republic 14 December. The vote results published [...]

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Football federation donates $100,000 to Togo player

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:42:26 +0000

GenevaLunch.com US former President Clinton to plead US case in Zurich Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Togo goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilale, who played for French side Pontivy, before he was injured in an armed attack in January 2010, is to received $100,000 from Fifa, the international football federation. The 25-year-old football player was gravely injured when his team’s [...]

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Bill Clinton up and about after heart surgery

Sean Ecker — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:34:20 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Former US President Bill Clinton is back at work after a lightning intervention to insert two stents into an artery 11 February. He complained of chest pains after his visit to Haiti last week, but doctors say he did not have a heart attack. Clinton, 63, underwent quadruple bypass surgery in 2004. He has since [...]

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Clinton named point man on Haiti reconstruction

Sean Ecker — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:46:25 +0000

GenevaLunch.com UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has asked former US President Bill Clinton to coordinate relief and reconstruction efforts for Haiti, battered by a 12 January earthquake. Ban asked Clinton “to assume a leadership role in coordinating international aid efforts, from emergency response to new construction of Haiti”, reports CNN. Clinton told Ban he would do [...]

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Bill Clinton speaks at inauguration of handicap centre in St. Gallen

Sean Ecker — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:29:30 +0000

GenevaLunch.com St. Gallen, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Former US President Bill Clinton gave the keynote speech at the inauguration of a new centre at St. Gallen’s university to study the integration into the workforce of people with disabilities , 5 November. The Centre for Disability and Integration (CDI-HSG) opened in March 2009, made possible through the help [...]

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Clinton flies home with two journalists

Sean Ecker — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:53:52 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Two US journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, were freed from prison in North Korea and flew home to Los Angeles with former US President Bill Clinton late 4 August. The two women were jailed in March for illegally entering the country. They were released on orders from Kim Jong-il, North Korea’s leader, to show [...]

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Bill Clinton in N. Korea

Sean Ecker — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:32:26 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Former US President Bill Clinton arrived in Pyongyang, North Korea to broker the release of two US journalists imprisoned there since March. He was met at the airport by Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Supreme People’s Assembly, and by the vice-foreign minister, Kim Kwe Gwan, who is also North Korea’s chief nuclear negotiator. The [...]

George Bush plans to earn fortune on speaking tour

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:47:13 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Former US President George W Bush embarks on a 10-a-year speaking tour in March with his first stop at a convention hall in Calgary, Canada. According to Britain’s Times, he will be well paid, but may find it difficult to match the $40 million made by the end of 2007 by another former president, Bill [...]

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Bill Clinton Foundation reveals donors

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:51:12 +0000

GenevaLunch.com After 10 years of resisting pressure to name its donors, the William Clinton Foundation started by the former US president, has published the list: about 10% of the funding comes from foreign governments, with Saudi Arabia a major contributor. But the two largest single donations come from two philanthropic groups, according to NPR (National Public [...]

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