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Turning over the stones of a lost past
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 07/05/2023
» One bright morning, as I was scouring Aldwark, a slender lane in York, England, searching for a certain historical site, a delivery truck pulled up. The driver, a man who looked to be in his 60s, got out and asked if he could help.
A cold case is cracked, 26 years on
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 07/05/2023
» The officers entering the room saw her slender frame lifeless on the bed. Her baby bump was visible. A little boy was wiping the blood under her nose.
Ding Liren becomes China's first world chess champion
AFP, Published on 01/05/2023
» PARIS - Ding Liren became China's first world chess champion on Sunday after a rapid-play tie-break victory over Russia's Ian Nepomniachtchi in Kazakhstan.
Last days for smoky New York City literary salon
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/04/2023
» About a year ago, a literary salon sprang to life in a run-down town house in the West Village. Dozens of young writers, critics, artists, theatre actors and filmmakers started going there almost nightly to drink, smoke, talk, dance and argue, much like their bohemian predecessors in the days before sky-high rents priced poets out of the neighbourhood.
Surrogacy fires up Italy's hard right
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 23/04/2023
» After a long flight from Seattle with their newborn son crying in their laps, an Italian couple gathered their infant's American birth certificate from the overhead compartment, got his American passport stamped and found friends and neighbours cheering with celebratory balloons outside their Milan apartment.
Amsterdam at war over 'erotic centre' plan
AFP, Published on 11/04/2023
» AMSTERDAM - The atmosphere was tense as residents confronted Amsterdam's mayor on a controversial plan to move legal prostitution from the city's historic red light district to a suburban "erotic centre".
Pope expresses 'deep concern' over Israel-Palestinian violence
AFP, Published on 09/04/2023
» VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis noted his "deep concern" on Sunday over a flare-up in tensions between Israel and Palestinians, delivering an Easter Mass in which he denounced the barriers to peace in the world.
Worshippers celebrate in Jerusalem amid surge in violence
AFP, Published on 09/04/2023
» JERUSALEM: Thousands of worshippers held tense celebrations in Jerusalem Sunday, as Christian Easter coincided with Jewish Passover and the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, amid a surge in violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Israeli army launches strikes in Syria after rocket fire
AFP, Published on 09/04/2023
» JERUSALEM - Israel launched artillery strikes on Syria Sunday morning after several rockets were fired from there and landed in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, the Israeli army announced.
Russia takes stock after failed offensive
AFP, Published on 08/04/2023
» Russia announced its winter offensive in Ukraine with great fanfare, but the ill-fated campaign has been another disappointment for Moscow.