GenevaLunch » Kabul http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Sun, 27 May 2012 07:51:09 +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 Obama promises to “finish the job” in Afghan speechhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/02/obama-promises-to-finish-the-job-in-afghan-speech/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/02/obama-promises-to-finish-the-job-in-afghan-speech/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 12:39:46 +0000 Paula Dupraz http://genevalunch.com/?p=69815 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – US President Barack Obama promised to “finish the job” begun in Afghanistan, in a speech pronounced during a surprise visit to a US military base in the country, Wednesday morning 2 May. The president’s speech, which takes place a year after Osama Bin Laden’s death and broadcast from Bagram Air Base to [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/02/obama-promises-to-finish-the-job-in-afghan-speech/feed/ 0 Afghanistan blasts kill 58, deflating small hopes from conferencehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/07/afghanistan-blasts-kill-58-deflating-small-hopes-from-conference/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/07/afghanistan-blasts-kill-58-deflating-small-hopes-from-conference/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:44:17 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64534 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLEAND -Western leaders’ promises of help to the Afghan government when their troops leave, made Monday at an international conference in Germany, appeared to offer smaller hopes of peace following deadly attacks in Kabul and a city in the north Tuesday 6 December. Close to 60 people died and 160 were injured when a [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/07/afghanistan-blasts-kill-58-deflating-small-hopes-from-conference/feed/ 0 Kabul standoff ends with seven deadhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/14/kabul-standoff-ends-with-seven-dead/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/14/kabul-standoff-ends-with-seven-dead/#comments Wed, 14 Sep 2011 06:22:59 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=61560 GenevaLunch.com KABUL – Six Taliban insurgents were killed after a 20-hour standoff in the heart of Kabul’s diplomatic and military enclave. “The operation just ended and 6 terrorists were killed by police,” spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said on Twitter. The number was updated to seven later in the day. Fifteen others were wounded. The Taliban-led gunmen shot [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/14/kabul-standoff-ends-with-seven-dead/feed/ 0 Afghan blast aimed at foreign contractor: 8 killed in supermarkethttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/28/afghan-blast-aimed-at-foreign-contractor-8-killed-in-supermarket/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/28/afghan-blast-aimed-at-foreign-contractor-8-killed-in-supermarket/#comments Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:47:48 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=52966 GenevaLunch.com Eight people were killed in Afghanistan, three of them foreigners, and several others were injured when a bomb went off in a Finest Supermarket in Kabul’s Wazir Akbar Khan district, Friday 28 January. The area is home to numerous embassies and is popular with foreigners and wealthy Afghans. It is not yet clear if it [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/28/afghan-blast-aimed-at-foreign-contractor-8-killed-in-supermarket/feed/ 0 Half of world’s refugees in cities, says UNHCRhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/07/half-of-worlds-refugees-in-cities-says-unhcr/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/07/half-of-worlds-refugees-in-cities-says-unhcr/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:36:00 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=33178 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Half of the world’s 10.5 million official refugees now live in cities, according to the United Nation’s High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), António Guterres. And twice as many internally displaced persons and “returnees” who have come home from abroad following conflicts, are living in urban areas. Guterres’s statement was made ahead [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/07/half-of-worlds-refugees-in-cities-says-unhcr/feed/ 2 Security in Kabul high for Karzai swearing-in, Peshawar bomb kills 15http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/19/security-in-kabul-high-for-karzai-swearing-in-peshawar-bomb-kills-15/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/19/security-in-kabul-high-for-karzai-swearing-in-peshawar-bomb-kills-15/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:31:38 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=31862 GenevaLunch.com Hamid Karzai’s inauguration for a second term as president of Afghanistan has come with unusually high security in the capital Kabul, and renewed pleas to step up the fight against corruption, from former US President Bill Clinton and other world leaders. Regular flights in and out of the city have been cancelled, citizens urged to [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/19/security-in-kabul-high-for-karzai-swearing-in-peshawar-bomb-kills-15/feed/ 0 Helicopter crashes kill 14 in Afghanistanhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/26/helicopter-crashes-kill-14-in-afghanistan/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/26/helicopter-crashes-kill-14-in-afghanistan/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:42:54 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=30423 GenevaLunch.com Four US soldiers died when the helicopter they were riding in apparently crashed with another in southern Afghanistan. The helicopters were not involved in hostilities, according to the reports. The news comes as earlier reports spoke of 10 US dead in another crash in Baghdis province in the west of the country involving a helicopter [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/26/helicopter-crashes-kill-14-in-afghanistan/feed/ 0 Voter fraud added to violence and corruption in Afghan electionhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/18/voter-fraud-added-to-violence-and-corruption-in-afghan-election/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/08/18/voter-fraud-added-to-violence-and-corruption-in-afghan-election/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:21:23 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=25241 GenevaLunch.com A man working undercover for the BBC news service in Kabul, Afghanistan has found instances of voter fraud involving the sale of voter cards and offers to buy blocks of votes for cash, days ahead of the country’s presidential and provincial council elections 20 August. Some people reportedly have been issued multiple voter cards to [...]

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