Swiss government to continue visa restrictions for Libyans – update
GenevaLunch News Update 13:50 Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss federal government announced Wednesday 17 February that it will continue the policy begun in November 2009 of restricting...
View ArticleGeneva reported ready to compensate Qadaffi’s son (update 2)
GenevaLunch News Libya calls on Malta to leave the Schengen area, “another form of colonialism” Malta issues temporary visas to Libyans to avoid Swiss ban Update 2 13:00 Bern, Switzerland...
View ArticleEU asks Libya to free Swiss businessman
GenevaLunch News Brussels, Belgium (GenevaLunch) - Max Goeldi, Swiss businessman held in Libya for 19 months, should be allowed to go home, the European Union told Libyan officials Thursday 25 March....
View ArticleLibyan minister insists crisis with Switzerland not over
GenevaLunch News Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Swiss public television TSR reports that Moussa Koussa, Libyan security and foreign affairs minister, said Sunday that his country’s crisis with...
View ArticleFormer Libyan prisoner Hamdani gives first interview
GenevaLunch News Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Swiss media are drawing attention 21 April to the plight of Max Goeldi, who has now purged half of a four-month prison sentence in Libya. The 19...
View ArticleIran gives visas to 3 US prisoners’ mothers
GenevaLunch News Iran is issuing visas to the mothers of three US citizens who have been imprisoned since July 2009 when they strayed across the border from Iraq, where they had been hiking, into Iran....
View ArticleWorld’s travellers all affected by irregular migration
GenevaLunch News 12 US airports testing departure data gathering: just one part of larger, changing travel controls picture Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Airport security checks and pre-departure...
View ArticleBerlusconi says happy with Russian plan to scrap football visas
GenevaLunch News Italian prime minister says he helped Russia win World Cup bid Sochi, Russia and Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Russian news agency Ria Novosti reports Italian Prime Minister...
View ArticleTaiwan and N Marianna Island residents no longer need Swiss visa
GenevaLunch News Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Residents of Taiwan and the N Marianna Islands in the Pacific will not in future need visas to visit Switzerland as tourists, the federal government...
View ArticleMugabe threatens Swiss interests, Nestlé, in Zimbabwe
GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – Robert Mugabe, 87-year-old leader of Zimbabwe, prime minister for 30 years, stepped up his criticism of Switzerland, in comments made 30 October, Sunday, to media...
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