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Dictator's shrine takes on new meaning
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 12/03/2023
» Built in the 1980s to commemorate a dead tyrant in Pharaonic style, the concrete and glass pyramid in the centre of Albania's capital, Tirana, was falling apart...
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Ketamine ushers in fraught new frontier
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 12/03/2023
» For Greg Rice, ketamine was transformative. The drug, approved decades ago to sedate patients during surgery, was increasingly being used to treat mental health...
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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...
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Venezuelans fail to take visa bait
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 12/03/2023
» Food shortages triggered by Venezuela's economic collapse pushed Victor Rojas onto a bus and across the border to Colombia. But soon after arriving, he was in...
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How Poland opened up to Ukrainians
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 12/03/2023
» A year ago, Russia's military onslaught on Ukraine sent millions of refugees fleeing west, often to countries wary of taking in foreigners, raising fears of a...
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Milan's Duomo still adored, despite the bother
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 12/03/2023
» Even in a city with La Scala, the glorious opera house, Milan's cathedral unquestionably reigns as the most beloved landmark in Italy's fashion and financial...
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Fugitive loses heart, rescue tale goes awry, train mishap
News, Mae Moo, Published on 12/03/2023
» Killer with manners
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Abuses well-known
News, Postbag, Published on 12/03/2023
» Re: "Tools of terrorists,"(PostBag, March 11).
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The Ides of March and perils of power
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 12/03/2023
» This Wednesday will be the 74th day of the year, which admittedly doesn't sound like something to get too excited about. But it is not just any old day. Known...
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Avoiding the third rail
News, Published on 12/03/2023
» The Move Forward Party (MFP) has declared amending the ultra-sensitive lese majeste law will not take precedence in its election campaign, a "watered down"...