Athens under threat from forest fires
GenevaLunch News Forest fires fanned by very strong and unpredictable winds are threatening the northern suburbs of Athens, Greece. Up to 90 blazes have started since Friday 21 August, and 2000...
View ArticleUN pulls back 600 workers from front-line in Afghanistan
GenevaLunch News The UN has announced it will redeploy 600 “non-front-line” workers in Afghanistan, pulling workers from the provinces to the capital, Kabul. Some will temporarily leave the country,...
View ArticleNew York chases would-be bomber
GenevaLunch News Police in New York City have issued video footage showing a white male in his 40s who could be a suspect in what was apparently a bomb attack on Times Square Saturday. A t-shirt vendor...
View ArticleFlash floods in central Europe kill 11, death toll could rise
GenevaLunch News Heavy rains in Czech Republic, Germany, and Poland caused flash floods that have thus far killed 11 people. Hundreds of people had to evacuate the state of Saxony in Germany after...
View ArticleIndonesian volcano residents evacuated
GenevaLunch News Indonesian civil protection officials are encouraging thousands of residents from the slopes of Mount Merapi in central Java to evacuate their villages, fearing an imminent eruption of...
View ArticleGovt’s putting money into IOM, UNHCR Libya evacuation (update)
GenevaLunch News Update 19:05 Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Governments are responding to the urgent appeal from the joint IOM/UNHCR project to evacuate thousands of refugees who have made it...
View ArticleSyria lambasted by UN in Geneva as situation worsens; Swiss embassy shuts
GenevaLunch News British embassy personnel withdrawn from GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva voted 38-3 to condemn Syria in a resolution that refers to “widespread...
View ArticleObama to visit massive Colorado wildfire
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – US President Barack Obama is expected to visit the western state of Colorado Friday 29 June as wild fires continue to rage for a fifth day, and threaten the...
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