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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.
History lesson
News, Postbag, Published on 26/02/2023
» Re: "Detention deaths spur probe calls," (BP, Feb 24).
US strategy won't deter China's rise
Oped, Published on 22/02/2023
» After President Joe Biden took office, the United States' "Indo-Pacific Strategy" (IPS) --which was officially proposed by former president Donald Trump in November 2017 -- showed a new trend. This recent trajectory includes expanding overseas military bases to deter China's rise at sea, competing against its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) infrastructure construction, and decoupling China's supply chain in the Indo-Pacific region.
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.
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.
36 hours in Bangkok (and the world’s your oyster)
Published on 12/02/2023
» Bangkokians have been busy: Travellers returning to “the City of Angels” after even a few years will notice changes.
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.