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All aboard a floating jungle supermarket
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 16/07/2023
» Up the wooden gangplank in a single-file line, nearly an entire indigenous village squeezed onto the Aquidaban's front deck. The Tomarahos had taken the boat downriver to vote in Paraguay's national elections and then had slept outside for four days, waiting for the Aquidaban to take them home.
California surfers terrorized by board-stealing sea otter
AFP, Published on 13/07/2023
» LOS ANGELES - Wanted: one ornery sea otter that has been attacking California surfers and commandeering their boards.
A basement of horrors in Seoul
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 09/07/2023
» The hostel in central Seoul has a lot to recommend it. The rooms are tidy and affordable enough for K-pop fanatics on a budget and families in need of lots of space on vacation.
Burst dam upsets Odesa beach plan
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 09/07/2023
» Last summer, the beaches that ring the port city of Odesa in southern Ukraine were crowded with volunteers packing sandbags under bluffs where troops were positioned in machine gun nests as the threat of a Russian amphibious assault still loomed.
A son's pursuit to keep father's legacy
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 02/07/2023
» When a pipe burst in the warehouse that contained the artworks of painter Nachume Miller, flooding the storage facility with pools of water and destroying hundreds of drawings and paintings, it was a wake-up call for Miller's son, Danny Miller. He jolted into action.
Prigozhin ‘aimed to capture Russian generals’
Published on 28/06/2023
» WASHINGTON: Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin aimed to detain the heads of the Russian military in last week’s mutiny, but they discovered his planned rebellion early and avoided capture, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
War, modernity shake up pacifist sect
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 25/06/2023
» When he was growing up among the Doukhobors, a pacifist religious group that immigrated to Canada from czarist Russia, J J Verigin would sometimes arrive home from school to find naked elderly women trying to burn down his family's house.
A peace-whisperer with plenty of enemies
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 11/06/2023
» For a champion of peace, Leyner Palacios faces a lot of death threats.
Native adoptions back in prospect
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 04/06/2023
» Chris Stearns has two distinct memories from his childhood in the late 1960s. The first is somewhat hazy: a crowded New York City picnic for white families who had adopted native American boys and girls, somewhere at a hilly park.
From birds to bullets: they've seen it all
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 28/05/2023
» Few things in science appear to be as delicate or precarious as the giant mirrors at the hearts of modern telescopes.