Overseas Americans let down by new US-Swiss tax agreement
GenevaLunch News by Andy Sundberg Andy Sundberg is a committee member of American Citizens Abroad (ACA), which is based in Geneva, Switzerland Background: “US, Switzerland ‘initial’ revised double...
View ArticleUS Embassy alert in Bern: area closed
GenevaLunch News Update 12:20 Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Police in Bern closed off a large area around the US Embassy in the city Wednesday morning 6 January but the area has been re-opened. A...
View ArticleNew man in Switzerland visits Bern
GenevaLunch News by Bill Harby Bill Harby publishes Expatch Bern Voyage A few days ago, with my shiny new go-anywhere-anytime-on-train-bus-tram-funicular-or-boat CFF pass in my wallet, I zipped down to...
View ArticleLe Temps to publish WikiLeaks US cables on Switzerland
GenevaLunch News Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swiss newspapers Le Temps (registration required) and NZZ will publish, in French and in German starting next week, selected cables from the 5,814...
View ArticleAmericans’ Town Hall meeting
GenevaLunch News “Americans in Switzerland Working Group” is a new partnership initiative launched jointly by the US Embassy in Switzerland and leaders of American clubs and political organizations in...
View ArticleChinese human rights activist escapes house arrest (Update)
GenevaLunch News Updated 16:40: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Chen Guancheng, a reknowned blind Chinese human rights activist who had escaped house arrest on 24 April is in the US embassy in Beijing, according...
View ArticleChinese dissident leaves US embassy in Beijing, Clinton visit starts
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has left the US embassy in Beijing where, the US says, he was seeking medical help, in a first confirmation that he was at the...
View ArticleLibyan video footage reported to show efforts to save Stevens
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – allAfrica reports from Tunis that video footage posted on the internet shows Libyans trying to save US Ambassador Chris Stevens, still alive, from a...
View ArticleSuicide bombing at US embassy in Ankara kills 2
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – An explosion near the US embassy in Ankara, Turkey has now been confirmed: an apparent suicide bomber died and one of the Turkish guards at the US Embassy was...
View ArticleFrench bus conductor climbs US Embassy in Paris
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The ultra-secure US Embassy in Paris, at the Place de la Concorde, turned out to be a little less so Thursday, after a French bus conductor calling himself a...
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