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‘Help us’: after Typhoon Rai, miles of destruction and the smell of death
New York Times, Published on 28/12/2021
» MANILA: “The trees snapped like matchsticks.”
Govt targets pro-democracy protesters in sweeping legal dragnet
New York Times, Published on 01/02/2021
» A 16-year-old boy is facing possible jail time for parading down a makeshift catwalk in a crop top said to evoke His Majesty the King. An actress stands accused of breaking the law by cheering on and delivering spicy takeout to hungry members of the country’s protest movement.
Spain set to take control of Catalonia in independence fight
New York Times, Published on 20/10/2017
» BARCELONA: The standoff over Catalonia intensified significantly Thursday as the Spanish government said it would take emergency measures to halt a secessionist drive after the leader of the restive region said that separatist lawmakers might declare independence.
Damp, dark and disarrayed, Florida tackles Irma’s aftermath
New York Times, Published on 12/09/2017
» Florida emerged from Hurricane Irma on Monday as a landscape of blacked-out cities, shuttered gas stations, shattered trees and flooded streets, while the now-weakened storm kept sweeping northward.
Duterte orders strict public smoking ban in Philippines
New York Times, Published on 19/05/2017
» MANILA -- President Rodrigo Duterte, who has overseen a deadly campaign to eradicate drug use in the Philippines, has now ordered a strict public ban on smoking and called on citizens to help local authorities apprehend smokers.
Gunman storms Florida gay club - 50 dead
New York Times, Published on 12/06/2016
» ORLANDO, Florida — A gunman killed 50 people and wounded 53 in a crowded gay nightclub in Orlando on Sunday, officials said, in the worst mass shooting in US history. Law enforcement officials said it could have been an act of Islamist terrorism.