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‘Doomsday today in Aleppo’
New York Times, Published on 24/09/2016
» RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA - Syria’s war escalated abruptly on Friday as government forces and their Russian allies launched ferocious aerial assaults on opposition-held areas of Aleppo amid threats of a big ground offensive, while efforts at the United Nations to revive a cease-fire appeared to collapse.
American hospitalised in Phuket after sexual assault
New York Times, Published on 08/09/2016
» It was supposed to be a relaxing break at a friendly southern Thailand beach resort for Hannah Gavios, an adventurous 23-year-old New Yorker on a three-day leave from her job teaching English in Vietnam.
Facebook restores iconic Vietnam War photo
New York Times, Published on 10/09/2016
» The image is iconic: A naked, 9-year-old girl fleeing napalm bombs during the Vietnam War, tears streaming down her face. The picture from 1972, which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography, has been used countless times to illustrate the horrors of modern warfare.
Viral sex tapes and a suicide prompt outrage in Italy
New York Times, Published on 17/09/2016
» ROME - The suicide of an Italian woman who fought a long court battle to get videos of her having sex removed from the web has rekindled a national debate on the perils of social media and the internet.
Eggplant, tomatoes and just a bit of pasta
Life, New York Times, Published on 16/09/2016
» Pasta is a generous co-star.
Southeast Asia: World piracy hotbed
New York Times, Published on 19/09/2016
» JAKARTA - Sembara Oktafian was in the engine room of a tugboat chugging toward the Philippines when something didn't sound right.
US university shuts bookstore, directs students to Amazon
New York Times, Published on 20/09/2016
» STONY BROOK, New York, USA - As school started at Stony Brook University this month, two freshmen, Juan Adames and John Taveras, set out to buy textbooks.
Laser scans unveil a network of ancient cities in Cambodia
New York Times, Published on 20/09/2016
» SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA - For decades, archaeologists here kept their eyes on the ground as they tramped through thick jungle, rice paddies and buffalo-grazing fields, emerald green and soft with mud during the monsoon season.
Peace talks feature symbolism, scepticism
News, New York Times, Published on 02/09/2016
» In the grandest gesture yet of her young administration, Myanmar's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, opened a peace conference on Wednesday to bring together hundreds of the country's ethnic armed groups in hopes of ending decades of conflict.
Nice attacker 'wasn't living in real world'
News, New York Times, Published on 26/07/2016
» His own parents were so frightened by his violence that they kicked him out when he was 16. Desperate, by the time he was 19, they dragged him to a psychiatrist, who prescribed an anti-psychotic drug, a tranquilliser and an antidepressant.