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Japanese fans snap up first Murakami novel in six years
AFP, Published on 13/04/2023
» TOKYO - Dozens of excited Haruki Murakami fans queued outside a bookstore in Tokyo on Thursday for the midnight release of the world-renowned author's first novel in six years.
In Mexican jungle, scientists prepare for future pandemics
AFP, Published on 07/04/2023
» TZUCACAB (MEXICO) - As night fell in Mexico's Yucatan jungle, veterinarian Omar Garcia extracted blood and fluids from a bat as part of an investigation aimed at preventing the next potential pandemic.
Oil rush threatens African delights
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 02/04/2023
» Under dense forest canopy sheltering elephants, rare birds and colobus monkeys, roaring bulldozers and excavators shatter the idyll, toppling ancient trees and carving roads to reach Uganda's newest source of riches: oil.
Helpless fish need heroes, too
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 02/04/2023
» Construction workers have been at work demolishing an abandoned tuberculosis hospital in Queens, New York, over the past several months, dismantling the long-empty wards and carting off the bricks. But first, they had to figure out what to do with a school of goldfish that for unknown reasons had come to call the flooded basement home. Three hundred of them.
Jail time for man guilty in hate-crime killing of Asian
New York Times, Published on 01/04/2023
» NEW YORK: A man who admitted to brutally, and fatally, attacking a 61-year-old immigrant in East Harlem two years ago because the victim was Asian was sentenced to 22 years in prison Friday.
China's 'art factory' painters turn from fakes to originals
AFP, Published on 30/03/2023
» DAFEN (CHINA) - Painters in a Chinese village once known for churning out replicas of Western masterpieces are now making original art worth thousands of dollars, selling their own works in a booming domestic art market.
Russians and Ukrainians wearing out welcome in Bali
Published on 25/03/2023
» For most of last year, thousands of Russians and Ukrainians flocked to the Indonesian island of Bali to escape the war. There they found refuge in a tropical paradise where locals rolled out the welcome mat for Ukrainians fleeing the shelling and Russians dodging the draft.
Immigrants who give up and go home
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 19/03/2023
» In August 2021, more than three decades after sneaking across the southern border as young adults to work and support their families in Mexico, Irma and Javier Hernandez checked in at LaGuardia Airport for a one-way flight from New York to Oaxaca. They were leaving behind four American children, stable jobs where they were valued employees and a country they had grown to love.
Pregnancy and Covid: What women need to know
New York Times, Published on 16/03/2023
» Pregnant women are particularly vulnerable to Covid-19, and new government data show that maternal mortality rose sharply in 2021, the second year of the pandemic. Here is what women need to know to keep themselves safe.
Meta axes 10,000 jobs in new round of cuts
AFP, Published on 14/03/2023
» WASHINGTON - Facebook owner Meta announced a fresh wave of job cuts on Tuesday, part of what CEO Mark Zuckerberg called the company's "year of efficiency" as the US tech sector continues to downsize.