Neuchatel’s controversial mayor resigns
GenevaLunch News Neuchatel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Valérie Garbani, Neuchatel’s colourful mayor whose leftist politics as well as sometimes embattled personal life have drawn media attention, has...
View ArticleMadagascar’s President Ravalomanana resigns under pressure
GenevaLunch News President Ravalomanana dissolved the government of Madagascar and handed over ruling power to the military under pressure from the army which then put Mayor Andry Rajoelina in the...
View ArticleHans Erni’s peacescape unveiled at Geneva UN Saturday
GenevaLunch News Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The official unveiling of a 60-metre long ceramic fresco, a wall mural by Swiss artist Hans Erni, takes place Saturday 6 June at the Palais des...
View ArticleChicago mayor Daley to step down
GenevaLunch News Long-standing mayor of Chicago, Richard Daley, has announced that he will not seek a record seventh term and will step down when his term ends in 2011. He made the surprise...
View ArticleRussian president fires Moscow’s mayor
GenevaLunch News Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov has been asked to step down by Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, who said he had lost confidence in him, according to the president’s website 27 September....
View ArticleFrench focus on politics with Chirac trial, Le Pen poll (update)
GenevaLunch News Update Tuesday 8 March: The trial in Paris of former President Jacques Chirac has been postponed until late June to consider constitutional questions raised by the defense. The French...
View ArticleZurich mayor sheds US passport
GenevaLunch News ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Zurich’s mayor has become the latest celebrity in Switzerland to have the US Embassy in Bern punch holes in her passport as she gives up her US citizenship....
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