GenevaLunch » Morocco http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:45:09 +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.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Refugees die as several sea crossings attempted http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/07/refugees-die-as-several-sea-crossings-attempted/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/07/refugees-die-as-several-sea-crossings-attempted/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 06:14:06 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64507 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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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/12/07/refugees-die-as-several-sea-crossings-attempted/feed/ 0 Military plane crash kills 78 in Morocco http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/26/military-plane-crash-kills-78-in-morocco/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/26/military-plane-crash-kills-78-in-morocco/#comments Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:13:32 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=60204 GenevaLunch.com MOROCCO – At least 78 people were killed when a Moroccan military transport plane crashed into a mountain in the south of the country during bad weather, said the state news agency, MAP. “Seventy-eight people were killed, and three were seriously injured following a crash, on Tuesday, of a C-130 aircraft of the Royal Armed [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/26/military-plane-crash-kills-78-in-morocco/feed/ 0 Max the stork family: and baby makes five http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/06/max-the-stork-family-and-baby-makes-five/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/06/max-the-stork-family-and-baby-makes-five/#comments Fri, 06 May 2011 12:23:58 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=57349 GenevaLunch.com Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Good news for Max the Swiss stork fans: a third baby bird has been spotted in the nest, making Max’s 2011 family the same size as her usual ones. Only two young ones had been spotted before this week until official photographer and neighbour Heidi Buergermeister saw a third head. Happy [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/06/max-the-stork-family-and-baby-makes-five/feed/ 1 Bern confirms: 2 Swiss residents killed in Marrakesh, 2 injured http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/02/bern-confirms-2-swiss-residents-killed-in-marrakesh-2-injured/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/02/bern-confirms-2-swiss-residents-killed-in-marrakesh-2-injured/#comments Mon, 02 May 2011 08:54:15 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=57129 GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss Foreign Affairs Department Sunday confirmed to Swiss media that two men missing after an explosion at a cafe in Marrakesh, Morocco last Thursday were killed by the blast. Moroccan authorities were unable to identify the bodies until Sunday. The two, ages 23 and 25, had been sitting at the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/02/bern-confirms-2-swiss-residents-killed-in-marrakesh-2-injured/feed/ 0 Geneva school students safe in Marrakesh http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/29/geneva-school-students-safe-in-marrakesh/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/29/geneva-school-students-safe-in-marrakesh/#comments Fri, 29 Apr 2011 06:53:06 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=57082 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - A group of students who are in their next to final year at La Châtaigneraie in Founex are safe, according to the International School of Geneva, after arriving in Marrakesh Thursday morning 28 April and finding themselves only a few hundred metres from the blast that shook the Arguna Cafe and [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/29/geneva-school-students-safe-in-marrakesh/feed/ 0 Marrakesh blast: 6 French reported among dead, 2 Swiss wounded http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/28/marrakesh-blast-6-french-reported-among-dead-2-swiss-wounded/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/28/marrakesh-blast-6-french-reported-among-dead-2-swiss-wounded/#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:06:52 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=57071 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Unconfirmed reports by hospitals to media groups indicate that six French tourists may be among the dead after an apparent bomb blast at a popular cafe in Marrakesh, Morocco Thursday noon 28 April, and that two Swiss may be among the 20 or more persons injured. TSR television says the Swiss [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/28/marrakesh-blast-6-french-reported-among-dead-2-swiss-wounded/feed/ 3 Tourists among 14 killed by bomb at Marakesh cafe http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/28/tourists-among-14-killed-by-bomb-at-marakesh-cafe/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/28/tourists-among-14-killed-by-bomb-at-marakesh-cafe/#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:05:58 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=57061 GenevaLunch.com A huge blast Thursday 28 April at the popular Argana two-storey cafe in Marrakech’s Place Jamaâ El Fna, a Unesco World Heritage site, killed 14 people and injured another 20, according to initial figures released by the Moroccan government. Reuters says it was told initially that gas cannisters might have caused the lunchtime blast, but [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/28/tourists-among-14-killed-by-bomb-at-marakesh-cafe/feed/ 2 US and Wipo put money behind push to fight counterfeits (correction) http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/28/us-and-wipo-put-money-behind-push-to-fight-counterfeits-correction/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/28/us-and-wipo-put-money-behind-push-to-fight-counterfeits-correction/#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 07:00:30 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=57029 GenevaLunch.com Correction  Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The US has granted Wipo, the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, $50,000 for a six-month programme in Kenya, Morocco and the Philippines to help local authorities raise awareness about the risk of counterfeit products.  The programme, to be administered by Wipo, which is matching the grant, will involve a [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/28/us-and-wipo-put-money-behind-push-to-fight-counterfeits-correction/feed/ 0 Jacques Chirac ordered to stand trial for corruption in Paris mayor’s office http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/30/jacques-chirac-ordered-to-stand-trial-for-corruption-in-paris-mayors-office/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/30/jacques-chirac-ordered-to-stand-trial-for-corruption-in-paris-mayors-office/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:21:51 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=30719 GenevaLunch.com A judge in Paris has ordered former French President Jacques Chirac,77, to stand trial on charges of misuse of public funds and abuse of trust, while he was the mayor of Paris from 1977-1995. It is the first time  that a former head of state is ordered to stand trial. Chirac has always denied any [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/30/jacques-chirac-ordered-to-stand-trial-for-corruption-in-paris-mayors-office/feed/ 0 Max, the white stork, lands in winter home http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/09/max-the-white-stork-lands-in-winter-home/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/09/09/max-the-white-stork-lands-in-winter-home/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:00:58 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=27276 GenevaLunch.com Fribourg, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Max, the white stork who has been tracked for longer than any other bird of her kind, 11 years, may have completed her winter migratory trip, and she is now 110 km south of Madrid. The Natural History Museum in Fribourg, which tracks the bird, says she arrived Tuesday evening 8 [...]

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