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Sweden’s fictional murder capital “a great place to bring up children”

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:16:55 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Long before Steig Larsson provided chilling murders Swedish-style, there was Henning Mankel By Bob Evans YSTAD, SWEDEN – “This is a great place to bring up children,” says police inspector and mother-of-two Charlotte Lindh as parents and children pass by heading to an open-air flea market on a bright Saturday morning. “Ystad is a very [...]

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UK phone hacking scandal reaches police, 2005 London bomb victims

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 05:16:39 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The scoops-seeking phone hacking by a private investigator hired by the UK tabloid, News of the World, appears to have reached families of the 7 July 2005 London bombings. The rapidly growing scandal of the phone hacking, with new revelations that police officers were paid, may have begun more than 10 years [...]

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Another school killing shocks China

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 12 May 2010 07:21:12 +0000

GenevaLunch.com China is reeling from yet another in a spate of attacks on young children, where some were murdered and scores have been injured, this time in Hanzhong city in Shaanxi province, where a man reportedly hacked to death a teacher and six young children, with several others injured, report Al-Jazeera and the BBC. Chinese English [...]

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Mayor arrested over Philippines massacre

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:50:16 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Andal Ampatuan Jr, the mayor of Datu Unsayalso, who is also the son of a provincial governor on the Philippines island of Maguindanao, has been charged with multiple murders in connection with the cold-blooded massacre of 57 unarmed civilians by a large group of armed men Monday 24 November. The massacre has sent shock waves [...]

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Man, 90, faces 58 Nazi era murder charges

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:18:57 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Adolf Storms, age 90, has been charged with the murder of 58 people in the final days of the second world war, in northern Germany. A court in Duisberg, western Germany, has brought the charges against the man, a former SS member, who is accused of taking a group of forced labourers to the woods [...]

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Wedding party attack kills 45 in Turkey

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 05 May 2009 04:30:13 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Forty-five people were killed in Mardin province in Turkey when gunmen with hand grenades and rifles broke into a house where a wedding was being celebrated and they opened fire. Police say the motive of the masked gunmen is unclear, but some local media are speculating that it was a blood feud and others that [...]

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Guinnea-Bissau after general and president shot: optimism

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:17:32 +0000

GenevaLunch.com The International Herald Tribune reports that, despite its massive problems which include a powerful drug-running trade and the violent deaths of the country’s top general and president, Guinea-Bissau is coloured by a tentative optimism, with the two men who have led it through misery for years both gone. (Ed. note: when the two were killed [...]

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