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Tinners finally charged in nuclear secrets case, after 8 years

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:54:16 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The news comes as something of an anti-climax after 8 years in the making: the two Tinner brothers and their 74-year-old father are being charged with breaking Swiss arms export laws. They were part of an operation run by Pakistani Abdul Qadeer Khan, who supplied nuclear parts and secrets to a network [...]

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Refugees die as several sea crossings attempted

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 06:14:06 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Four bodies were found and other people are known to have drowned, says the UN refugee agency UNHCR in Geneva, after the Moroccan Royal Navy guard rescued 53 people from a boat that sank off the coast near Dar Kabdani. The vessel was carrying more than 60 people and included several pregnant [...]

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Demining funds maintained despite world economic woes

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:55:42 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Efforts to get rid of landmines are making good progress in many countries and funding is being maintained despite government budget constraints, a key meeting in Cambodia that closed 2 December shows. But work remains, with 4,000 new victims of landmines each year: six people died in Pursat Province, Cambodia, which hosted [...]

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Red Cross warns Libyans about unexploded ordnance

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:29:04 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The ICRC (International Red Cross) in Geneva and the Libyan Red Cross have begun a three-week radio campaign in Libya to warn the population of the danger of explosive remnants of war. The programme is being launched a day after the Landmine Monitor Report 2011 cautioned that landmine detection work will need [...]

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Mine Ban Monitor lauds progress but 12 states still produce, 3 laid new mines

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:00:39 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – There is some good news on the landmine front, the “Landmine & Cluster Munitions Monitor 2011″ (full report online), issued 23 November reports, but it is dampened by news that three countries laid landmines this year, with two of them, Israel and Libya confirmed. Myanmar is the third suspect, and four non-state [...]

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ICRC visit to Qaddafi son, says he is in good health

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:13:45 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – An ICRC (International Red Cross) official has told news agency Reuters that its staff has visited Seif al-Islam Qaddafi in Zintan, in western Libya, where he is being held. The ICRC limited its comments to the fact he appears to be in good health, noting that he is one of 8,500 people [...]

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Qaddafi’s spy chief captured Sunday

Ellen Wallace — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:34:59 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Abdullah al-Sanussi, who headed the Qaddafi regime’s spy network, was captured, the National Transitional Council announced, without saying when. His capture in the Al-Guira region in the south of the country comes one day after that of Seif al-Islam Qaddafi, the son who was expected to take over from his father Muammar. Links [...]

Seif al-Islam, son of Qaddafi senior, arrested in southern Libya

Ellen Wallace — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:47:44 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The eldest son of Muammar Qaddafi, and presumed heir to the regime before it fell, Seif al-Islam, was arrested Saturday 19 November in southern Libya, an official from the NTC (National Transitional Council) told reporters. He was reportedly flown to a detention centre after it was secured. Three others were arrested with [...]

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Qaddafi sons contest arrest efforts, one via lawyer, the other on the lam

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:03:19 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Saadi Qadaffi, who fled to Niger, is contesting Interpol’s arrest warrant for him, after earlier dismissing charges of misappropriating funds. His lawyer said Tuesday 2 November that he is challenging the basis of the Interpol warrant, saying it is politically motivated by a new leadership that lacks legitimacy. The news comes three [...]

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Qaddafi’s killers will be brought to justice, new gov’t says

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:33:03 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Libya’s NTC, the National Transitional Council, says it will bring to justice the person found to have shot the bullet to the head that killed former leader Muammar Qaddafi, who died 20 minutes after being captured. The NTC had argued for a week that he was killed in crossfire, but video footage [...]

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