GenevaLunch » MDC http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:10:57 +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 Other world news in brief http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/06/other-world-news-in-brief/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/06/other-world-news-in-brief/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:13:31 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=31080 GenevaLunch.com The UN General Assembly has approved 114 to 18, with 44 abstentions, the controversial Goldstone report into atrocities in the Gaza war in the winter of 2008/09, and recommended that the Security Council act if both Israel and the Palestinians had not conducted their own investigations within three months. CNN, New York Times Honduras‘ former [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/06/other-world-news-in-brief/feed/ 0 Zimbabwe blocks entry to UN torture expert http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/29/zimbabwe-blocks-entry-to-un-torture-expert/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/29/zimbabwe-blocks-entry-to-un-torture-expert/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:25:33 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=30609 GenevaLunch.com A UN official in charge of investigating charges of torture who was invited to Zimbabwe is on his way to Johannesburg, South Africa Thursday 29 October after being denied entry to the country at the airport in Harare. Manfred Nowak, the UN’s special rapporteur on torture, told reporters that his invitation had been rescinded by [...]

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