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Venezuelans reveal depth of hunger
News, New York Times, Published on 21/06/2016
» With delivery trucks under constant attack, the nation's food is now transported under armed guard. Soldiers stand watch over bakeries. The police fire rubber bullets at desperate mobs storming grocery stores, pharmacies and butcher shops. A 4-year-old girl was shot to death as street gangs fought over food.
Playing dead, to live
News, New York Times, Published on 15/06/2016
» As the sound of gunfire in the nightclub grew louder, a patron named Orlando and a female friend took cover in a cramped bathroom stall, contorting their bodies on top of the toilet so their feet could not be seen. The gunman burst into the bathroom, went straight to the stall next to them and shot the people inside.
Message to Islamabad
News, New York Times, Published on 25/05/2016
» Early on Saturday, a middle-aged Pashtun man used forged documents to cross from Iran into Pakistan. A few hours later, on a lonely stretch of highway, he was incinerated by a US drone.
Job hunters in the digital age need to rethink their approach
News, New York Times, Published on 11/04/2016
» Like many recent college graduates, Ben Kim felt he was casting his resume into an abyss when he clicked "apply online" for the hundredth or so time. "The most common response was nothing," he said.
Orang-utans suffer in bushfires
News, New York Times, Published on 07/04/2016
» Katty, a docile, orange-haired pre-schooler, fell from a tree with a thump. Her teacher quickly picked her up, dusted off her bottom, refastened her white disposable nappy and placed her back on a branch more than two metres off the ground.
Smuggled mobile phones become lifeline to outside world
News, New York Times, Published on 28/03/2016
» The man drove Ju Chan-yang to a mountain overlooking North Korea's border with China. He looked around, making sure they were alone. Then he dialled his Chinese cellphone and handed it to her.
Trump's heated words destined to stir violence
News, New York Times, Published on 14/03/2016
» In foreboding conversations across the political world this past year, a bipartisan chorus warned that the 2016 presidential campaign was teetering on the edge of violence.
Gawker editor jolts courtroom in Hulk Hogan privacy trial
News, New York Times, Published on 11/03/2016
» A palpable sense of shock rippled through a courtroom in St Petersburg, Florida, on Wednesday morning when the former editor-in-chief of Gawker.com was shown in a videotaped deposition suggesting that almost anything goes when it comes to the newsworthiness of celebrities' sex videos.
Pyongyang rocket shapes regional relations
News, New York Times, Published on 12/02/2016
» When China's leader, Xi Jinping, visited the United States' firm ally South Korea in 2014, it seemed to be the beginning of a promising courtship.
As more refugees arrive, altruism fades
News, New York Times, Published on 09/02/2016
» When the Syrian refugees first started streaming into Jordan's Ramtha, a bedraggled border town, Gassim al-Moghrebi was their tireless benefactor, distributing donations of food, money and clothes and sheltering as many as possible in two apartments he owned.