GenevaLunch » displaced people 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 Torrential rains in Venezuela bring death and chaos http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/12/01/torrential-rains-in-venezuela-bring-death-and-chaos/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/12/01/torrential-rains-in-venezuela-bring-death-and-chaos/#comments Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:54:00 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=50624 GenevaLunch.com States of emergency have been declared 30 November in four states in Venezuela, including in the capital Caracas, ravaged by torrential rains for more than a week, causing flooding and mudslides. Thousands of people have lost their homes and are taking refuge in more than 800 emergency shelters. Twenty-one people are believed dead, according to [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/12/01/torrential-rains-in-venezuela-bring-death-and-chaos/feed/ 0 Haiti’s tent people cannot find shelter from Tomas http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/05/haitis-tent-people-cannot-find-shelter-from-tomas/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/05/haitis-tent-people-cannot-find-shelter-from-tomas/#comments Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:48:43 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=49512 GenevaLunch.com The 1.3 million people displaced by January’s massive earthquake in Haiti are bracing for the arrival of tropical storm Tomas, which is heading for the Caribbean island and is gathering strength. People living in tents since their houses were destroyed by the earthquake are hoping that the storm will give the capital Port-au-Prince a miss, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/05/haitis-tent-people-cannot-find-shelter-from-tomas/feed/ 1 Sri Lanka votes for president 26 January http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/01/21/sri-lanka-gears-up-for-presidential-election-26-january/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/01/21/sri-lanka-gears-up-for-presidential-election-26-january/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:40:57 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=35719 GenevaLunch.com Sri Lanka’s voters go to the polls next Tuesday 26 January in elections that were called almost two years early by the country’s president, Mahinda Rajapaksa. They are almost evenly divided between supporters of the president and his main opponent, former army chief Sarath Fonseka. Both the president and his opponent are claiming to be [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/01/21/sri-lanka-gears-up-for-presidential-election-26-january/feed/ 0 Harrowing plight of thousands to flee fighting in South Waziristan http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/27/harrowing-plight-of-thousands-to-flee-fighting-in-south-waziristan/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/27/harrowing-plight-of-thousands-to-flee-fighting-in-south-waziristan/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:34:53 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=30483 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Thousands of people displaced by the two-week old conflict in South Waziristan, in Pakistan’s northwest, are arriving in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) districts of Tank and Dera Ismail Khan, sometimes fleeing the fighting by difficult, dangerous and expensive routes. Their escape from the middle of a war zone, access to [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/27/harrowing-plight-of-thousands-to-flee-fighting-in-south-waziristan/feed/ 0 Pakistani army enters third day of S.Waziristan offensive http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/19/pakistani-army-enters-third-day-of-swaziristan-offensive/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/19/pakistani-army-enters-third-day-of-swaziristan-offensive/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:26:49 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=29991 GenevaLunch.com Pakistani army troops are slowly advancing deeper into South Waziristan, in northwest Pakistan from three directions to fight an estimated 10,000 battle-hardened Pakistani Taliban fighters on their own ground, close to the border with Afghanistan. Official reports say over 60 militants and six soldiers have died since the operation began Saturday 17 October but claims [...]

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