Little information on Swiss couple kidnapped in Pakistan (update)
GenevaLunch News Update 5 July BERN, SWITZERLAND – ATS news agency, citing a German news agency, says Tuesday that a Bern couple kidnapped in Pakistan Friday 1 July have reportedly been taken by...
View ArticleFrench woman, kidnapped in Kenya, dies in Somalia
GenevaLunch News PARIS, FRANCE – The French foreign ministry has announced the death of Marie Dedieu, 66, who was kidnapped the night of 30 September from her home on the small island of Manda, then...
View ArticleSomali kidnappers demand ransom for French woman’s remains
GenevaLunch News France announced that 66-year-old Marie Dedieu, who was kidnapped on October 1 from her beach house in Kenya, and taken to Somalia, has died in the hands of her captors, most probably...
View ArticleSwiss couple kidnapped in Pakistan: “We are in danger” (video)
GenevaLunch News PAKISTAN – A Bern couple kidnapped in Pakistan Friday 1 July are reportedly “alive and well” says the FATA Research Centre, FRC, a “non partisan and non-political research...
View ArticleBern 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...
View ArticleTwo 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...
View ArticleSwiss woman kidnapped in Mali, Bern working to release her
GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – A Swiss woman who lives in Timbukto, Mali, was kidnapped there, the Swiss Federal Foreign Affairs Department confirmed Monday 16 April. The DFAE has not provided...
View ArticleMali kidnap victim released to Swiss gov’t officials
GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss woman kidnapped last week in Timbukto, Mali was released “into the custody of a representative of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) by the...
View ArticleAmerican student kidnapped, taken to Lyons, released
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Geneva police have confirmed to GenevaLunch.com that an American student was kidnapped and taken to France, where he was released. “The ‘banditism’ brigade in...
View ArticleUN peacekeepers taken hostage in Syria
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Syrian rebels fighting in the Golan Heights have taken 21 hostages, United Nations peacekeeping unit whose convoy was stopped and held at a checkpoint, according...
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