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Secret society fights for its home
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 08/01/2023
» On a brisk morning in November, bright yellow leaves from a huge ginkgo tree scattered onto the front yard of 87 MacDonough St. Under peeling paint and missing cornices, Essie Gregory stood on the steps of the huge, ramshackle mansion in the heart of the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighbourhood of Brooklyn with a small group of visitors.
Old negatives reveal master snapper
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 08/01/2023
» He died nearly three decades ago in a tiny village at the bottom of the valley, unheralded and quickly forgotten, except by a few old-timers who still marvel at how Zaharia Cusnir, a poor farmhand with four children to raise, put so much time into taking photographs with a clunky Soviet camera.
Anti-migrant town has change of heart
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 08/01/2023
» For years, the small town of Herouxville in rural Quebec was the embodiment in the province of deep, nativist hostility towards immigrants.
Did a fourth-grader write this, or Chatbot?
Published on 04/01/2023
» NEW YORK: It’s hard to fully grasp the enormous potential of ChatGPT, a recently released artificial intelligence chatbot. The bot doesn’t just search and summarize information that already exists. It creates new content, tailored to your request, often with a startling degree of nuance, humor and creativity.
A Russian muralist wages his own war
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 01/01/2023
» An 84-year-old artist was standing in front of one of the many murals he has painted in his provincial hometown one recent day when a group of young women passed by. They had travelled some 96 kilometres from Moscow just to see his latest work, and they tittered at the encounter.
US digs out from monster storm as death toll passes 50
AFP, Published on 28/12/2022
» BUFFALO - The monster storm that killed dozens in the United States over the Christmas weekend continued to inflict misery on New York state and air travellers nationwide Tuesday, as stories emerged of families trapped for days during the "blizzard of the century."
Loyalty doubts splinter liberated town
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 25/12/2022
» When Myroslava, a 36-year-old construction manager, returned to her hometown of Sviatohirsk in eastern Ukraine last month, she expected to find her house destroyed by shelling.
Slow lockdown haunts Uganda
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 25/12/2022
» As an outbreak of Ebola swept through central Uganda in late September, government officials were willing to do anything to contain the virus except take one crucial step: impose a lockdown.
Shadowy goings-on at Nord Stream 2
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 25/12/2022
» Between a tram stop and a kebab shop, the grey building in the northeastern German city of Schwerin looks innocuous enough -- and so does its tenant, the Foundation for the Protection of the Climate and Environment.
Mines sow mischief for mushroom hunters
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 25/12/2022
» Deep in a pine forest to the north of Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, a beautiful mushroom warmed its brown cap in the gentle autumn sun -- it was an all but irresistible scene for Ukrainian mushroom hunters.