GenevaLunch » White House http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Sun, 27 May 2012 09:11:36 +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.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Women in the US slower to catch up on pay than Swisshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/09/women-in-the-us-slower-to-catch-up-on-pay-than-swiss/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/09/women-in-the-us-slower-to-catch-up-on-pay-than-swiss/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 10:18:26 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70062 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Women in the US celebrated Equal Pay Day 17 April, six weeks after their Swiss counterparts, Megan Beyer, chair of the US-Swiss Sister Republics – Building Bridges conference says in a mailing to the group. The group of women leaders from the two countries who met in Bern and Geneva 7 March [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/09/women-in-the-us-slower-to-catch-up-on-pay-than-swiss/feed/ 0 Obama sets the tone for US presidential racehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/25/obama-sets-the-tone-for-us-presidential-race/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/25/obama-sets-the-tone-for-us-presidential-race/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:35:55 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=65515 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Fairness was the big word in the annual State of the Union address delivered by US President Barack Obama, who focused on keeping the American Dream alive. The speech serves as a reply to Republican candidates campaigning for the November 2012 presidential election and it provides the Democrats’ agenda for the year [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/25/obama-sets-the-tone-for-us-presidential-race/feed/ 0 La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland to pay tribute to Le Corbusierhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/21/la-chaux-de-fonds-switzerland-to-pay-tribute-to-le-corbusier/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/21/la-chaux-de-fonds-switzerland-to-pay-tribute-to-le-corbusier/#comments Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:58:07 +0000 Laila Rodriguez http://genevalunch.com/?p=62681 GenevaLunch.com LA CHAUX-DE-FONDS, SWITZERLAND – The 125th anniversary of the birth of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier, will be celebrated by the town of La Chaux-de-Fonds where the Swiss-French architect was born. The small Swiss city will kick off celebrations with an event to take place at the White House, or Maison blanche on [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/21/la-chaux-de-fonds-switzerland-to-pay-tribute-to-le-corbusier/feed/ 0 Petraeus gets CIA, Panetta to head Pentagonhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/27/petraeus-gets-cia-panetta-to-head-pentagon/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/27/petraeus-gets-cia-panetta-to-head-pentagon/#comments Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:06:04 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=56987 GenevaLunch.com The expected shakeup in US military leadership appears to be ready, with AP making one of the tersest and shortest news agency reports in some time, with an announcement shortly after noon Swiss time that its sources say Robert Petraeus will become head of the CIA intelligence agency and CIA director Leon Panetta is being [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/27/petraeus-gets-cia-panetta-to-head-pentagon/feed/ 0 US says unaware Saudi Arabia sending troops to Bahrainhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/15/us-says-unaware-saudi-arabia-sending-troops-to-bahrain/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/15/us-says-unaware-saudi-arabia-sending-troops-to-bahrain/#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2011 07:18:02 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=55310 GenevaLunch.com US officials at the Pentagon say that Robert Gates, the defense secretary, was not given any warning when he visited Bahrain last week that just two days later Saudi Arabia would send 1,000 troops to the small kingdom to help quell protests, Monday 14 March. Aljazeera reports that the UAE (United Arab Emirates) sent 500 [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/03/15/us-says-unaware-saudi-arabia-sending-troops-to-bahrain/feed/ 0 US, Libya, Switzerland feel the heat of UN Human Rights reviewshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/10/us-libya-switzerland-feel-the-heat-of-un-human-rights-reviews/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/10/us-libya-switzerland-feel-the-heat-of-un-human-rights-reviews/#comments Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:03:10 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=49669 GenevaLunch.com US official reply Tuesday rejects some of criticisms as “political provocation” Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The US and Libya were criticized by other countries during their Universal Periodic Reviews (UPR) by the UN Human Rights Council in the past week. Switzerland, under review 5-8 November by a council committee for its adherence to the International [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/11/10/us-libya-switzerland-feel-the-heat-of-un-human-rights-reviews/feed/ 1 US, Russia sign Start treaty: complete monitoring, lower costs (update)http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/26/us-russia-sign-start-treaty-complete-monitoring-lower-costs/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/26/us-russia-sign-start-treaty-complete-monitoring-lower-costs/#comments Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:08:01 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=39265 GenevaLunch.com Update 18:15  Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet in Prague, Czech Republic Thursday 8 April to sign a new Start treaty, bringing to an end months-long negotiations to reduce strategic arms. The US Senate and Russian Parliament will need to ratify the treaty. The two presidents [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/03/26/us-russia-sign-start-treaty-complete-monitoring-lower-costs/feed/ 2 Obama takes security lapse blamehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/01/08/obama-takes-security-lapse-blame/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/01/08/obama-takes-security-lapse-blame/#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:20:10 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=34863 GenevaLunch.com US President Barack Obama says he takes the blame personally for recent lapses in the US security system, in the fight against terrorism. The White House issued a report on the 25 December bomb attempt of a Northwest Airlines plane near Detroit. It calls for quicker and better exchanges of information about possible threats. People [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/01/08/obama-takes-security-lapse-blame/feed/ 0 Obama expected to announce more Afghanistan troopshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/01/obama-expected-to-announce-more-afghanistan-troops/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/01/obama-expected-to-announce-more-afghanistan-troops/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:58:54 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=32698 GenevaLunch.com US President Barack Obama is widely expected to announce Tuesday 1 December that the US will send up to 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. He phoned Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Sunday and met at the White House with top military and diplomatic officials to brief them and order them to implement a new strategy, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/01/obama-expected-to-announce-more-afghanistan-troops/feed/ 0 Start treaty talks may take longer, Obama sayshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/16/start-treaty-talks-may-take-longer-obama-says/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/16/start-treaty-talks-may-take-longer-obama-says/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:42:00 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=31677 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – US President Barack Obama met Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev on the fringes of the Apec meeting in Singapore 14 November, to discuss the resumption of the Start talks on reducing both countries’ nuclear arsenals. Obama hailed the “excellent progress over the last few months”repors the Moscow Times. The Start talks resume [...]

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