ORAN, Algeria — A mysterious virus rips through the city of Oran, Algeria, in Albert Camus’ novel “The Plague.” Today the city on the Mediterranean coast grapples with COVID-19. Visiting the bars, beaches and boulevards that appear in the book reveals eerie parallels between 1947 fiction and 2020 reality. Known in French as “a place […]
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This one change to bankruptcy law could help small businesses
Small businesses forced to file for bankruptcy protection due to financial stress brought on by the coronavirus pandemic may find some relief, thanks to recent changes in federal bankruptcy law. Last summer, Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed the Small Business Reorganization Act, and it went into effect in February. The law creates a […]
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Women rangers work to keep lid on illegal game hunting
Last year, Kenya reported a 90% decrease in wildlife poaching, but the advent of COVID-19 has stirred concerns the country’s national parks may draw new illegal hunters left jobless by the pandemic. Standing in their way despite the threat of illness is a group of eight women drawn from the Maasai community, known as Team […]
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Bumper crop of women farmers emerges in India
In villages across India’s Chhattisgarh state, more women are turning to farming to sustain their families. While these female agriculturalists are helping to boost agricultural productivity in the region, their efforts are also feeding their communities during the coronavirus pandemic. Kiran Sahu is one of several women farmers who have recently cultivated once-barren land near […]
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Hispanic workers worry about Brexit’s smallest land boundary
Gibraltar is only part of the United Kingdom connected to continental Europe by land. Now, many ask, is it about to be cut off? In the wake of COVID-19 and Brexit, some fear that Spain may close the border for the thousands who go every day to work on the 2.6 square-mile English-speaking peninsula. After […]
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Judge Orders 10-Day Delay After Virginia Governor Says Confederate Monument to Robert E. Lee Must Come Down
A Virginia judge has ordered a 10-day halt to Governor Ralph Northam’s plan to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee statue on Richmond’s historic Monument Avenue. Northam announced on June 4 that the monument would come down, after days of heated protests rocked the city. Richmond was the capital of the Confederacy during the Civil […]
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Ban On Israeli Imports Could Stand Between Ireland and A New Government
Negotiations over the formation of a new government in Ireland have hit a snag four months after general elections, with the likely coalition government proposing a ban on all goods and services coming from Israeli settlements. While the coronavirus pandemic hindered progress on negotiations, the three coalition partners, Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and the Green […]
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Divisions Between Europe and U.S. Resurface as NATO Starts Weighing Future
While NATO’s engages in a “reflection” process to refine its agenda for the next decade, new tensions between U.S. President Donald Trump and European allies threaten to deepen rifts forming on both sides of the Atlantic. European NATO allies have gotten used to Trump’s unpredictability in past months as he questioned the value of the […]
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Armed Texans Rally Again For Bar That Defied COVID-19 Shutdown Order
More than a hundred Texans held an armed rally on Saturday in support of a bar whose owner was arrested for defying a shutdown order a month ago. The arrest of Big Daddy Zane’s owner Gabrielle Ellison and six of her supporters May 6 in Odessa, Texas came after similar encouragement from an armed group. […]
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Meet the Black Republican Woman Trying to Unseat Civil Rights Icon John Lewis
Angela Stanton-King has overcome being separated from her newborn daughter after giving birth in prison and re-entering society without a job or income. Now she has a new set of challenges as a black Republican running in an urban Democratic stronghold. The 53-year-old hopes to unseat the popular civil rights icon John Lewis, 80, who […]
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Ecuador bets on a return to normal
Ecuador, one of the hardest-hit countries in the region, is starting to reopen after a 40-day country-wide lockdown and transition to social distancing. There are more than 38,000 cases and 5,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths, according to the latest official figures. Ecuadorian Minister of the Interior María Paula Romo speaks to press in the Province of […]