LUOSHUI TOWN, China – China warned the death toll from this week’s earthquake could soar to some 50,000, while the government issued a rare public appeal Thursday for rescue equipment as it struggled to cope with the disaster. Rescue workers broke through key roads to the epicenter in the race to find survivors. More than […]
Teachers Fall Victim to Rural Violence
By Wonder Madiro in Harare Hundreds of rural schools in Zimbabwe are battling to reopen for the new term this week because most teachers have fled local violence. War veterans and militias have reportedly unleashed a reign of terror in the countryside, and although many victims are said to be opposition supporters, ordinary teachers have […]
Part 21: El Camino de Santiago
JAMES Camino Day 21 Buenos Dias Los Amigos, Today took us from Porto Marin to some other place that I can’t remember the name of at this precise moment, (Palas del Rei-Larry) approximately 65 kms from the Holy Grail at Santiago. Today did not start, as on many other occasions, well! It is difficult enough to […]
Lung Cancer: Sam
“Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.”- Primo Levi Please Comment/Rate! […]
Scarlett Keeling : Murder Mystery
Indian police have arrested a second man in connection with the death of a British teenager, Scarlett Keeling found dead on a beach in the coastal state of Goa last month. Placido Carvalho, also known as Shanuboy, has been charged with rape and murder as well as supplying drugs to Scarlett Keeling. Police earlier arrested a bartender, […]
Migrant Workers Bear the Brunt of China’s Transport Chaos As Cold Snap Continues
It should have been her last journey. Zhao Baoqin was going home: not just for the new year, like so many migrant workers, but for good. She had labored for years in a wool factory, paying her daughter’s way through school and then university. Now the new graduate had promised to support her mother in […]
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