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N Korean leader dies, Swiss-educated son takes over

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:42:07 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The “Great Successor”, Kim Jong-un, has officially been named the successor to his father, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, 69, who died Monday 19 December of a heart attack while traveling, according to media reports coming out of the country. The son, who is reportedly in his late 20s, surfaced as part [...]

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Abidjan, the last battle (Chappatte cartoon)

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 20:06:48 +0000

GenevaLunch.com ©2011 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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Cote d’Ivoire tense as Gbagbo negotiates surrender

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:45:58 +0000

GenevaLunch.com The United Nations special envoy to Cote d’Ivoire, YJ Choi, says that Laurent Gbagbo has agreed to surrender and that reports about attacks on the presidential palace in Cote d’Ivoire are not true. Choi says, “All the generals who are fighting for Gbagbo have deserted him, it is over. There is no army, there is [...]

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World given rare chance to hear Eritrean music

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:20:41 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Eritrea’s new album, “Eritrea’s Got Soul”, is one of the world’s best holiday gifts, for the power of the unlikely recordings to tell a story from a small African nation. Three international albums in 50 years for a population of five million people with nine languages who have their own musical [...]

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US President Obama says military will leave Iraq, as promised

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:15:29 +0000

GenevaLunch.com US combat forces will be leaving Iraq, “on time, as promised” President Barack Obama told a veterans’ group Monday 2 August. Tens of thousands of troops still in Iraq are being pulled out and will be gone by 31 August. The end of the war that cost $800 billion coincides with the arrival in Afghanistan [...]

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UK’s former prime minister Blair appears on Iraq war panel

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:41:09 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair made a long-awaited appearance Friday morning 29 January in front of a war panel reviewing how and why the country entered a war with Iraq. A key factor, he has told the panel, was the changed perception of risk after the attacks of 11 September 2001. Blair is appearing [...]

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Geneva commemorates 150th anniversary of battle of Solferino

Sean Ecker — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:05:28 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The horrors of the battle of Solferino 150 years ago 24 June brought into being the international Red Cross and Red Crescent movement, based in Geneva. To mark the day, Swiss media have been focusing on numerous events taking place in the region: Le Temps mentions the week-long celebrations organized by [...]

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Displaced in NW Pakistan face increasing hardships, aid agencies too

Sean Ecker — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:40:57 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Several international aid agencies working with internally displaced people (IDPs) in northwest Pakistan have called for a more rapid deployment of funds in order to help the estimated 2.4 million (IDPs) who fled fighting in the Swat valley in May 2009, even as more arrive daily from the conflict areas. Most [...]

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Sri Lanka gov’t declares victory, Tamil Tigers say “bitter end” reached

Sean Ecker — Mon, 18 May 2009 05:43:03 +0000

GenevaLunch.com UPDATE 07:45 The BBC reports the Sri Lankan government as saying bodies of Tamil Tiger leaders have been found as “brushing up” operations continue. The country’s Tamil Tigers have accepted defeat after 25 years of fighting, with their head of international relations saying on their web site Sunday 16 May that the “bitter end” had [...]

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Kerekes “Cooking history” – recipe for food, war and inspiration

Jared Bloch — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:36:24 +0000

GenevaLunch.com By Jared Bloch What happens to the war effort when the Army chef spoils the food? As one character in Peter Kerekes “Cooking History” proclaims, “there is no war without food.” And maybe no successful war campaign without good food. The premise for this alternately wry and sobering movie evolved out of a conversation between [...]

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