GenevaLunch » Italy http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Sun, 27 May 2012 07:22:47 +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.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no NE Italy earthquake, 6 dead include 100-yr-oldhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/20/ne-italy-earthquake-6-dead-include-100-yr-old/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/20/ne-italy-earthquake-6-dead-include-100-yr-old/#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 11:13:21 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70360 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Northeastern Italy had a 6.0 earthquake at 04:00 Sunday 20 May, and six people have been found dead, Italian media are reporting. Ferrare and Modena appear to have been hardest hit, with four night workers killed in three separate locations by falling buildings or materials. A 100-year-old woman and a 37-year-old German [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/20/ne-italy-earthquake-6-dead-include-100-yr-old/feed/ 0 Truck overturns on Simplon passhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/16/truck-overturns-on-simplon-pass/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/16/truck-overturns-on-simplon-pass/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 07:41:05 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70307 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A truck overturned Tuesday 15 May at 14:20 on the downhill side of the Simplon pass, heading towards Italy. The 56-year-old Italian driver was injured slightly. The road was closed following the accident. He was returning from Visp in canton Valais to Torino, Italy when the truck went onto its side on [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/16/truck-overturns-on-simplon-pass/feed/ 0 Switzerland, Italy ready to talk a tax deal at top levelhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/09/switzerland-italy-ready-to-talk-a-tax-deal-at-top-level/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/09/switzerland-italy-ready-to-talk-a-tax-deal-at-top-level/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 12:28:59 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70073 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Germany, the UK and now Italy: Switzerland’s southern neighbour is the latest to enter into talks with Bern over ways to get more of its citizens money into the taxman’s hands. A steering group has been set up and will meet for the first time 24 May to consider several financial and [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/09/switzerland-italy-ready-to-talk-a-tax-deal-at-top-level/feed/ 0 Failed missile launch by North Korea condemnedhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/13/failed-missile-launch-by-north-korea-condemned/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/13/failed-missile-launch-by-north-korea-condemned/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:46:33 +0000 Paula Dupraz http://genevalunch.com/?p=68997 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A long-range rocket launched by North Korea Friday 13 April to mark the 100th anniversary of the regime’s founding leader exploded 90 seconds after taking off, nonetheless drawing condemnation from G-8 countries. A joint statement from foreign ministers of the G-8, which comprises the United States, Russia, Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/13/failed-missile-launch-by-north-korea-condemned/feed/ 0 Google Maps unveils first train rides, in Switzerland, land of trains!http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/22/google-maps-unveils-first-train-rides-in-switzerland-land-of-trains/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/22/google-maps-unveils-first-train-rides-in-switzerland-land-of-trains/#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:16:30 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=68145 GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – What better country than Switzerland to start showing train lines on Google Maps Street View, and what better line than the Unesco World Heritage site Albula/Bernina line on the Rhaetian Railways! The new views were unveiled Thursday at the Transport Museum in Lucerne. The rail company and Google worked together in October [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/22/google-maps-unveils-first-train-rides-in-switzerland-land-of-trains/feed/ 0 Sports, Six Nations Rugby: Grand Slam glory for Waleshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/17/sports-six-nations-rugby-grand-slam-glory-for-wales/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/17/sports-six-nations-rugby-grand-slam-glory-for-wales/#comments Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:43:39 +0000 Nicholas Bates http://genevalunch.com/?p=67850 GenevaLunch.com MILLLENIUM STADIUM, CARDIFF, WALES – The Welsh team completed their  Grand Slam, which involves winning all the Six Nations matches in a season, with a 16-9 win over France, 17 March. It was their third slam in eight years and brought comparisons with the great 1970s team led by Mervyn Davies,who died the previous day. [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/17/sports-six-nations-rugby-grand-slam-glory-for-wales/feed/ 0 Speed of lightning probably not overtaken, says Cernhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/16/speed-of-lightning-probably-not-overtaken-says-cern/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/16/speed-of-lightning-probably-not-overtaken-says-cern/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:52:38 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=67817 GenevaLunch.com New information on neutrinos backs suspicions earlier measurements were somehow flawed GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Physicists can relax a bit this weekend, with Cern’s latest statement on the hubbub surrounding 2011 measurements taken in Italy that appeared to show the first serious deviation from Einstein’s law of relativity. Cern, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, startled [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/16/speed-of-lightning-probably-not-overtaken-says-cern/feed/ 0 Crans-Montana’s Swiss stars were the Patrouille Suissehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/27/crans-montanas-swiss-stars-were-the-patrouille-suisse/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/27/crans-montanas-swiss-stars-were-the-patrouille-suisse/#comments Mon, 27 Feb 2012 07:15:02 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66980 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A good time was had by all, but the repeat of 1987, when the Swiss dominated the World Cup ski competition in Crans-Montana, never quite happened 24-26 February. The sun was mostly shining, the skies were filled with the roar and impressive aerobatics of the Patrouille Suissse planes, and Swiss skiers put [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/27/crans-montanas-swiss-stars-were-the-patrouille-suisse/feed/ 0 Italy loses European Court case over returned Libyans at seahttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/23/italy-loses-european-court-case-over-returned-libyans-at-sea/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/23/italy-loses-european-court-case-over-returned-libyans-at-sea/#comments Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:01:20 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66933 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Italy was dealt a blow Thursday by the European Court of Human Rights, which ruled against it in a case known as Hirsi Jamaa and Others v. Italy that date back to 2009. “Italy violated the European Convention of Human Rights by intercepting and returning to Libya in 2009 a group of [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/23/italy-loses-european-court-case-over-returned-libyans-at-sea/feed/ 0 S Schmidheiny sentenced in emotional Italian asbestoes trialhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/14/s-schmidheiny-sentenced-in-emotional-italian-asbestoes-trial/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/14/s-schmidheiny-sentenced-in-emotional-italian-asbestoes-trial/#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:19:04 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66648 GenevaLunch.com Fiberglass death lands Schmidheiny involuntary manslaughter sentence TORINO, ITALY -  Swiss business baron Stephan Schmidheiny and Belgian aristocrat Jean-Louis de Cartier were sentenced by a court in Torino, Italy 13 February after being found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for their part in the deaths of some 2-3,000 Italian workers by asbestoes poisoning. The pair, who [...]

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