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Jolie asked to take on new refugees role as Somalia blast kills 70

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:24:47 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Special envoy Joli can help draw attention to “some of the world’s most difficult refugee situations” GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Actress Angelina Jolie was asked Tuesday 4 October by the head of the UN refugee organization UNHCR to take on a new role as special envoy, in the wake of several new emergency refugee situations this [...]

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Cyprus blast, “accident”, kills at least 8, injures scores, cuts electricity

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:03:25 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A huge blast at a Cyprus munitions dump at a naval base on the south of the island at 06:00 (local time) Monday 11 July killed at least 8 people. Some reports say 12 people have died and at least 38 were injured. It is being treated for now as an accident, [...]

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Thieves blast into bank machine near Payerne

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:20:27 +0000

GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A large manhunt by police from Lausanne and Yverdon, joined by border guards, is on for a group of four robbers who blew apart an outside bancomat in Corcelles-près-Payerne at 05:00 Thursday morning 23 June. A neighbour phoned 117 to alert the emergency centre after hearing a loud blast, but the thieves [...]

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Bern confirms: 2 Swiss residents killed in Marrakesh, 2 injured

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 02 May 2011 08:54:15 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss Foreign Affairs Department Sunday confirmed to Swiss media that two men missing after an explosion at a cafe in Marrakesh, Morocco last Thursday were killed by the blast. Moroccan authorities were unable to identify the bodies until Sunday. The two, ages 23 and 25, had been sitting at the [...]

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Geneva school students safe in Marrakesh

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 06:53:06 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - A group of students who are in their next to final year at La Châtaigneraie in Founex are safe, according to the International School of Geneva, after arriving in Marrakesh Thursday morning 28 April and finding themselves only a few hundred metres from the blast that shook the Arguna Cafe and [...]

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Marrakesh blast: 6 French reported among dead, 2 Swiss wounded

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:06:52 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Unconfirmed reports by hospitals to media groups indicate that six French tourists may be among the dead after an apparent bomb blast at a popular cafe in Marrakesh, Morocco Thursday noon 28 April, and that two Swiss may be among the 20 or more persons injured. TSR television says the Swiss [...]

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Suicide attack kills 36 Afghan army recruits

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:46:31 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Blast comes as US president meets with Pentagon over pullout Thirty-six recruits for the army in Afghanistan were killed and 42 injured when a bomb exploded in a suicide attack on an Afghan army recruitment center in the northern province of Kunduz province, government officials said Tuesday 15 March. The attack comes a day after [...]

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Bomb at Alexandria church kills 17, injures dozens

Ellen Wallace — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 17:02:06 +0000

GenevaLunch.com A bomb that went off as Christian church-goers left a New Year’s service Saturday 31 December in Alexandria, Egypt, killed 17 people and possibly more, while injuring dozens, Egyptian interior ministry officials say. Initial reports said that a car bomb was responsible for the blast, and the number of dead listed was higher, but conflicting [...]

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Russian mine blast toll rises to 43

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 11 May 2010 07:25:36 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Toll could go much higher Explosions in a Siberian mine in Russia late Saturday and early Sunday have taken the lives of at least 43 people, according to Russian authorities, but another 47 are still missing. Hopes are “dimming” for their survival, says national news agency Ria Novosti. Nineteen of the dead were rescue workers [...]

Bomb in NW Pakistan hits convey headed to girls school

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:31:38 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Four foreigners are reportedly among seven people killed when a bomb exploded near a school in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province, but initial reports are contradictory. The bomb may have hit a convoy, in the Lower Dir district, traveling to the opening of a girls school but other reports say the blast came during the opening [...]

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