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Holy murder mystery on a wealthy island
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 21/02/2022
» Not much happens of note on Shelter Island, New York, all 3,240 bucolic hectares of it. Sandwiched between Long Island's North and South Forks, it is the kind of place where people seem to know one another, where car doors are often left unlocked and where, for about 20 years, the most bothersome problem has been Lyme disease-carrying black-legged ticks.
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Google to invest $1 bn to lift Africa internet access
AFP, Published on 07/10/2021
» JOHANNESBURG - Google announced Wednesday that it would invest $1 billion in boosting Africa's internet access and startup scene, as the tech giant eyes a youthful market increasingly armed with smartphones.
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Racing for sustainability
Life, Noko, Published on 24/09/2021
» At the end of August, a major motorsport event for the first time took place in Greenland.
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Sincerity forsaken
Oped, Postbag, Published on 08/05/2021
» Re: "Thamanat saga a blight", (Editorial, May 7).
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Napoleon and world history: What if...?
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 05/05/2021
» Napoleon Bonaparte doesn't come up much in conversation these days, which is hardly surprising given that he has been dead for two centuries. On the other hand, today will be exactly 200 years since he died, so maybe we could make an exception just this once.
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Napoleon: Military genius or sexist, slaving autocrat?
AFP, Published on 04/05/2021
» PARIS - The jury is still out on Napoleon Bonaparte. He modernised France and won some of the most famous battles in history, but he also enshrined the subordination of women into law and re-established slavery.
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Napoleon's bicentennial under shadow of Covid and controversy
AFP, Published on 27/04/2021
» PARIS - In the Grand Hall de la Villette on the outskirts of Paris, the trappings of an emperor are gathered: magnificent outfits, weapons, medals, porcelains, a monumental wedding carriage...
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Hamilton and Button on board as green machines go to extremes
AFP, Published on 02/04/2021
» AL-ULA (SAUDI ARABIA) - Billed as motor-sport with a "platform for climate action", Extreme E gets underway in the deserts of Saudi Arabia on Sunday before attempting to highlight the environmental dangers posed to the Arctic, Amazon rainforest as well as oceans and glaciers.
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Wildfires rip through California wine country, tens of thousands flee
AFP, Published on 29/09/2020
» SANTA ROSA (UNITED STATES) - Tens of thousands of people were forced to flee their homes in California's Napa and Sonoma valleys on Monday as wildfires fanned by fierce winds ripped through the world-famous wine region.
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Fruitfull dining
Life, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 24/04/2020
» The lockdown has been doing wonders for the environment and to take it a step further, Scratch First, the Thai organisation behind the arts and lifestyle festival Wonderfruit, has conceived a new platform for creative sustainable and social interaction. And this time, it's all about food.
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