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Dance festival in Annemasse

Laila Rodriguez — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:00:00 +0000

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Apple and publishers lose bid to reject class action on e-book pricing

Paula Dupraz — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:42:21 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Apple and five publishers have lost a bid to have a class action case on electronic book pricing rejected, thus allowing the case to proceed in court in the United States. US district attorney judge Denise Cote in New York Tuesday 15 May rejected a motion by Apple and the publishers to [...]

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Woodless driver sought by Vaud police

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:08:04 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Loose wood and petrol in the tunnel caused huge detour and 20km traffic jam at start of holiday LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Vaud police are looking for a driver who lost a pallet of wood Wednesday afternoon on the A9 autoroute. The wood slid off the unknown vehicle about 100 metres into the Flonzalley tunnel after Lausanne, [...]

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Long weekend demands mixed planning

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 16 May 2012 11:56:33 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Much of Switzerland, including the Lake Geneva area, will be taking a four-day Ascension weekend starting Thursday 17 May. Some areas, for example most of canton Valais, are open for business Friday. The weather forecast is not a springtime ideal, with rain and sun and wind wrapped around chilly temperatures, highs of [...]

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FBI begins probe into JP Morgan

Paula Dupraz — Wed, 16 May 2012 11:04:25 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The US Federal Bureau of Investigations has opened a preliminary inquiry into a $2 billion trading loss at JP Morgan Chase, which led to the resignation Monday 14 May of the bank’s chief investment officer, Ina Drew. Shareholders defended the investment bank’s chief Jamie Dimon at the annual general meeting, rejecting a [...]

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Asylum seekers’ fight at Fribourg station leaves 1 in critical condition

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:20:42 +0000

GenevaLunch.com FRIBOURG, SWITZERLAND – A fight that broke out at the Fribourg train station at 20.20 Tuesday 15 May has left one man, a 26-year-old Tunisian asylum seeker, in critical condition, say Fribourg police. Five men, all African asylum seekers, were arrested, but a sixth man fled the scene. Police are trying to identify the missing [...]

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Truck overturns on Simplon pass

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:41:05 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A truck overturned Tuesday 15 May at 14:20 on the downhill side of the Simplon pass, heading towards Italy. The 56-year-old Italian driver was injured slightly. The road was closed following the accident. He was returning from Visp in canton Valais to Torino, Italy when the truck went onto its side on [...]

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François Hollande meets Angela Merkel (Chappatte cartoon)

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:48:43 +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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Mexican author Carlos Fuentes dies

Paula Dupraz — Tue, 15 May 2012 22:28:52 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Carlos Fuentes, one of Latin America’s most prolific and eloquent authors, died Tuesday 15 May, aged 83, following a heart attack. Fuentes, born in Panama to Mexican parents, was a frequent critic of governments and a defender of human rights. His novel “The Death of Artemio Cruz” focused on the excesses of [...]

Lufthansa Technik to cut 200-plus jobs in Basel

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 15 May 2012 17:09:58 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BASEL, SWITZERLAND – Lufthansa Technik, a subsidiary of the parent of Swiss, the airline, is going on a strict died, restructuring to focus on just one product. The company will cut 82 of its 302-person workforce as a result. The move comes as a result of the high franc and tough airline market conditions, the [...]

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