Rough sleeping
Holding out, though feeling hopeless MUSLIMS know a tale as a story of a People of a Cave: some group tumble defunct and find, on waking, that centuries have upheld and a universe is transformed. The...
View ArticleOpen wounds
IN LITTLE some-more than a decade, starting in 1965, Asia suffered 4 synthetic catastrophes detached from a Vietnam war; altogether they cost millions of lives. China endured a Cultural Revolution....
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WHEN a Taliban announced a start of their annual open descent final week, Afghans braced for bloodshed. It came this week. On Apr 19th, during morning rush hour, a member of a Taliban gathering a...
View ArticleRock in a tough place
AN AWFUL abuse will succeed any male who dares wear a Koh-i-Noor, according to a Gothic Indian text. On a other hand, it said, whoever owned a “Mountain of Light” would also “own a world”. For...
View ArticleCampaign of apprehension opposite Bangladesh’s magnanimous voices
THE KILLERS came as couriers, a suspicious-looking organisation of 5 or six. The parcel they carried, to a prosaic in Dhaka on Apr 25th, was filled with machetes. Once inside they hacked to genocide...
View ArticleOnce in a lifetime
THE final time North Korea’s statute Workers’ Party, a KWP, hold a inhabitant association was in Oct 1980, when a benefaction leader, Kim Jong Un, was not even born. The meeting’s categorical purpose...
View ArticleSiren strain of a strongmen
AT MID-AFTERNOON in Dagupan City, hundreds of people persperate and shove kindly in an locus available Grace Poe, one of 5 possibilities opposed to be inaugurated boss of a Philippines on May 9th....
View ArticleUnderwater envy
IT WAS a touching impulse in mid-April when a Japanese Soryu-class submarine sailed into Sydney harbour—the initial revisit by a Japanese undersea vessel given 3 of a country’s midget submarines...
View ArticleSalt of a earth
SHADED by a tree, an aged rancher gestures hopefully during a thin immature shoots poking from his small tract in Vietnam’s Mekong stream delta. The sugarine stand he planted progressing in a year has...
View ArticleStill shaking
Still waiting LIFE should be busier for Ganeshman Shakya, a mason in Bungamati, a encampment in a Kathmandu valley. A year ago this week a 7.8-magnitude trembler killed scarcely 9,000 people and left...
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