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Failed missile launch by North Korea condemned

Paula Dupraz — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:46:33 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A long-range rocket launched by North Korea Friday 13 April to mark the 100th anniversary of the regime’s founding leader exploded 90 seconds after taking off, nonetheless drawing condemnation from G-8 countries. A joint statement from foreign ministers of the G-8, which comprises the United States, Russia, Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom, [...]

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Siberian plane crash victims mixup: “dead” man recovering at hospital

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:05:40 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Dmitry Ivanyuta, 25, has been discovered in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Siberia, after being declared one of the 31 people who died in a plane crash near Tyulen, Russia 2 April. Twelve people survived the crash and are “recovering slowly” reports the Moscow Times. The newspaper says that [...]

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Siberian plane crash kills 31

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:38:49 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Russian media Ria Novostisay reports that 31 of the 39 or 43 (accounts vary) people aboard a UTair plane flying from Tyumen to Surgut in Siberia died when the plane crashed while trying to make an emergency landing at 01:50. The crash into a snowy field near the village of Gorkovka occurred [...]

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N Korean rocket threats overshadow Seoul nuclear safety summit

Paula Dupraz — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:01:32 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – North Korea’s plan to launch a long-range rocket next month upstaged talks at the 53-leader summit on nuclear security as it came to a close Tuesday 27 March in Seoul, South Korea. The North Korean foreign ministry said it would carry out plans to launch a satellite missile into orbit next month [...]

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Int. Red Cross head to Moscow to plead for 2 hr/day aid breaks

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:09:23 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Visit “against deteriorating humanitarian aid background” as fighting breaks out in capital GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Jacob Kellenberger, head of the Geneva-based International Red Cross, is in Moscow Monday 19 March to ask Russian authorities for help in getting a two-hour daily break in fighting in Syria. Kellenberger’s visit “takes place against the background of a [...]

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Russians insist Kofi Annan not asking for Syrian leader’s ouster

Ellen Wallace — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:57:50 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Russian media Saturday 17 March quoted Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying he spoke to UN Syrian mediator Kofi Annan after Annan and Bashar al-Assad spoke, in early March and “I can assure you that there was no talk about Assad’s departure.: The remarks were published by Russia’s foreign ministry on its [...]

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“Grave” strain to relations with allies in Canadian spy case

Paula Dupraz — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:02:52 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A Canadian naval intelligence officer accused of counterespionage has inflicted “grave injury” on relations with the country’s allies, The Globe and Mail reports, citing anonymous government sources. They are quoted as saying that the full extent of the damage will be fully gauged only once the government determines the content of classified information [...]

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President Putin, it is!

Ellen Wallace — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 23:22:10 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Vladimir Putin Sunday 4 March won a third term in office as president of Russia, winning with a 61 percent landslide, with 58 percent of voters turning up at the polls, according to the Moscow Times. Chechnya, it notes, had a 94 percent turnout. Putin, who has been serving as prime minister [...]

Election day in Russia (Chappatte cartoon)

Ellen Wallace — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 07:56:20 +0000

GenevaLunch.com ©2012 Chappatte, distributed by Globe Cartoon. More cartoons on Chappatte’s web site. Geneva-based Patrick Chappatte works for the International Herald Tribune, for Geneva newspaper Le Temps, and for NZZ am Sonntag. All cartoons reproduced with permission.

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Landmines, Internet freedom, Syria keep Geneva busy this week (correction)

Ellen Wallace — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 08:48:52 +0000

GenevaLunch.com (Land mine information corrected) GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Geneva’s international profile was particularly high during the past week. The Human Rights Council condemned Syria but also highlighted growing concerns over Sri Lanka, the World Trade Organization picked up the Acta Internet freedom debate, Cern announced it will be using cloud computing to help handle massive LHC [...]

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