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An anxious Asia arms for a war it hopes to prevent
Published on 26/03/2023
» TINIAN, Northern Mariana Islands: The tiny island of Tinian was the launch point for U.S. planes carrying atomic bombs to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Now a new runway is being carved from the jungle, just south of World War II ruins.
Teacher trades books for a gun
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 12/03/2023
» Just over a year ago, Yulia Bondarenko's days were full of lesson plans, grading and her students' seventh-grade hormones.
US museum keeps looted artefacts for now
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 12/03/2023
» As the pressure on museums and collectors to return looted artefacts to their countries of origin has grown in recent years, one issue has been whether some countries are equipped to accept them immediately.
Fox hunting stirs England's muddy fields
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 05/03/2023
» The SUV trundled along the winding English country road at dawn, its five masked occupants decked head to toe in black as the hills of the Warwickshire countryside rolled past.
GM trees find home in US forest
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 05/03/2023
» Recently, in a low-lying tract of southern Georgia's pine belt, a half-dozen workers planted row upon row of twig-like poplar trees.
A desperate escape from Russia
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 19/02/2023
» A series of knocks rattled his apartment door one day last autumn, and Maksim peered through the peephole to see two soldiers in uniform. They were military enlistment officers, he knew, expanding the vast conscription effort for the war in Ukraine to Russia's remote Far East.
Czech spa town lives down past
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 19/02/2023
» James Bond, poisoned by a villain in the film Casino Royale, almost died in the forecourt of the Grandhotel Pupp, a majestic reinvention of what, under communism, was called the Grand Hotel Moskva, a shabby lodge popular with members of the Czech and Soviet nomenklatura.
'Pushy' China outstaying welcome
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 12/02/2023
» Down a dirt road outside the Solomon Islands' capital city, past Chinese construction projects and shops where Chinese merchants sell snacks, a tribal chief tried to explain what it feels like to have a rising superpower suddenly take an interest in a poor, forgotten place desperate for development.
Mine a mixed blessing
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 12/02/2023
» As Wendsler Nosie finished his evening prayers sitting before a mesquite fire, a ceremonial yucca staff festooned with eagle feathers by his side, he gazed sternly towards a distant mesa where mining companies hope to extract more than 1 billion tonnes of copper.
Scranton fights back in Ukraine
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 12/02/2023
» On a Saturday night in a small cinder-block-walled kitchen attached to St Vladimir's Ukrainian Catholic Church, young and old hands alike turned red from grating beets for Father Myron's borscht.