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Kabul standoff ends with seven dead

GenevaLunch News KABUL – Six Taliban insurgents were killed after a 20-hour standoff in the heart of Kabul’s diplomatic and military enclave. “The operation just ended and 6 terrorists were killed by...

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Swiss hostages captured by Taliban escaped, safe in Pakistan

GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – A Swiss couple captured by the Taliban 1 July 2011 as they were traveling in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region escaped and presented themselves to a Pakistan...

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Bern confirms 2 Taliban hostages free and unharmed

GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – Olivier and Daniela, whose last names are not given by Bern to protect their privacy, are indeed free and the Swiss ambassador has spoken with them: the travelers...

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Two Taliban hostages back in Switzerland

GenevaLunch News ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Olivier O and Daniela W, the two Swiss hostages who were captured by a Taliban group in Pakistan while they were on an overland trip through Asia, arrived back...

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Obama promises to “finish the job” in Afghan speech

GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – US President Barack Obama promised to “finish the job” begun in Afghanistan, in a speech pronounced during a surprise visit to a US military base in the country,...

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Attack on WHO polio doctor in Pakistan

GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND –  Gunmen in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi attacked a UN vehicle, injuring a World Health Organization doctor working on a polio immunization drive Tuesday 17...

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Afghan civilians beheaded, fears increase for new wave of violence

GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Fears that Taliban strength is rising again in Afghanistan are being  fueled by the deaths Sunday 26 August, by beheading, of 17 civilians. An official in Helmand...

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Pakistan waits as school girl lies in hospital, ministry says attackers...

GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Malala Yousufzai,, already well known as a 14-year-old girl who dared to speak publicly about the problems, particularly for girls who wanted an education, under...

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Women health workers killed in Taliban anti-polio raid

GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Five women who were part of a national polio eradication campaign were killed in Pakistan Tuesday 18 December and a 17-year-old girl was killed Monday, prompting...

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Bomb attack on police in Kabul, 8 hrs fighting, leaves 9 dead

GenevaLunch News Dozen wounded in early hours attack GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – An attack on the traffic police headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan led to the deaths of at least nine people, four of them...

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