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Latest Kennedy death brings illness, animosity into public

Ellen Wallace — Sat, 19 May 2012 07:18:55 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Mary Richardson Kennedy’s death and burial, like her life, has been a struggle. The 52-year-old designer/architect and environmentalist, estranged wife of Robert Kennedy Jr involved in a rancorous divorce case, was found dead 16 May and her hanging was ruled a suicide. The Kennedy family held a wake Friday near Boston, Massachussetts, [...]

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Dutch man falls to death in Rhone

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:04:53 +0000

GenevaLunch.com SION, SWITZERLAND – A 42-year-old Dutch man who lives in Valais died Monday morning 14 May when he fell into the fast-moving Rhone river in the Goms Valley, near Reckingham. Police say that while doing maintenance work at the Augenstern campground he began emptying a wheelbarrow into the river at 11:30. For reasons that are [...]

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Young Norwegian swim champion dies

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 02 May 2012 08:54:27 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Alexander Dale Oen, age 26, one of the world’s finest competitive swimmers, was found dead in his Arizona hotel room shower Monday 30 April. The medical examiner reported he died of cardiac arrest and there were no signs of foul play. He had been doing high altitude training with his team. Dale [...]

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Chevrolet’s death due to natural causes

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:32:55 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Michel Chevrolet, the 39-year-old Geneva politician who was found dead in his Rives apartment 24 April, died of natural causes, Geneva’s public attorney said Thursday 26 April in a statement. There will be no criminal investigation into his death as a result, although additional medical tests are underway, says the judicial office. [...]

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Geneva’s dynamic Chevrolet, 39-year-old politician, dies “suddenly” (correction)

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:40:14 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Police are investigating the death of politician and former local media figure Michel Chevrolet, age 39, at his home Tuesday 24 April. The city of Geneva issued a statement noting that he died “suddenly” and a number of politicians have issued statements noting their shock at the death of one of the [...]

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Dutch man dies in Anniviers avalanche

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:07:25 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A 45-year-old Dutch man who lives in The Netherlands died in an avalanche Tuesday 17 April in canton Valais. He and another person were ski touring in the Val d’Anniviers when they were caught by the avalanche at 12:40. The other skier managed to get free and call for help but the [...]

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British man dies in Verbier balcony fall

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:54:41 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A 32-year-old British man who lives in the UK, whose identity has not been released by canton Valais police, died during the night of Wednesday-Thursday 11-12 April, after falling from a third-floor balcony in Verbier. The man’s body was found at 08:20 Thursday at the foot of the building by a passerby, [...]

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Ben Bella, Algeria’s first president, dies

Paula Dupraz — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:46:14 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Algeria’s first president, Ahmed Ben Bella, died Wednesday 11 April at the age of 93, in Alger, a few days after the country marked the 50th anniversary of its independence from France. Ben Bella joined the anticolonialist resistance after serving during the Second World War in the Free French forces in Europe. [...]

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Accidents, Valais and Vaud

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 10:59:59 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Man dies in Sion city centre Youth critically injured near Fechy LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A 47-year-old Valais man died in the early hours of Friday after he drove into the wall of a building in the centre of Sion, say Valais police. He was heading down towards the train station on the Avenue de la [...]

Wisconsin woman, 80, lands plane as husband dies

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:41:03 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – An 80-year-old woman landed a small plane on her fourth attempt in Door County, Wisconsin, with help from the control tower and a pilot who flew a small plane alongside her, when her husband, the pilot, was taken ill. Helen Collins had not flown a plane for 30 years and doesn’t have [...]

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