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Novel Approach: Corruption and resilience dominate How Beautiful We Were TinaMarie Craven FacebookTwitterEmail 2of3 "How Beautiful We Were" is the latest novel by Imbolo Mbue.TinaMarie Craven / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less 3of3 “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” —Steve Maraboli During the past year, many of us have reflected on the importance of our homes, especially since we’ve been spending so much of our time in our homes ...

Will Patrick Lynch run for governor in 2022? The former Rhode Island attorney general has more money in his campaign account than Governor Dan McKee Updated March 17, 2021, 10:22 a.m. Email to a Friend Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch talks with reporters about the plea agreement reached in The Station nightclub fire trial Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006, in Providence, R.I..STEW MILNE If you have friends or relatives who would like their own free copy of this daily briefing about Rhode Isl...

What happened to the Syrian refugees who got stuck in Turkey? Syrian families outside a Syrian grill on Inonu Street in Gaziantep, Turkey. Photograph: Ozan Köse/AFP/Getty Images Gaziantep, in southern Turkey, is home to about half a million Syrian refugees, many of whom had hoped to make it Europe Wed 17 Mar 2021 01.00 EDT Last modified on Thu 18 Mar 2021 11.47 EDT The first to arrive at Gaziantep’s Irani Bazaar are the bakers, lighting their saj grills before the sun comes up to make Syrian...

Author Protesters at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. waving the Syrian rebel flag. November 25, 2019. Photo by Miki Jourdan / Flickr The cycle of protests that collectively became known as the “Arab Spring” were triggered by a desperate event outside a government building in the small Tunisian city of Sidi Bouzid in late December 2010, when Mohamad Bouazizi set fire to himself in an act of protest. Mass demonstrations followed across Tunisia and quickly ricocheted across the Mid...

A vehicle pursuit crossed county lines from Carter into Rowan Saturday, according to Kentucky State Police. Two troopers on patrol were behind a yellow Chevy Cobalt when it picked up speed and committed several traffic violations, according to KSP announcement. When the troopers activated their lights, the Cobalt kicked the speed up a notch and crossed over into Rowan County, state police said. At that point, the driver and front passenger bailed out of the car and ran on foot, KSP said. The dr...

Syrias Idlib De-escalation Zone Shelled 36 Times in Past Day, Russian Military Says © AP Photo / Ugur Can Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202103161082363440-syrias-idlib-de-escalation-zone-shelled-36-times-in-past-day-russian-military-says/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group (banned in Russia) shelled Syrias Idlib de-escalation zone 36 times over the past 24 hours, Rear Adm. Alexander Karpov, deputy head o...

Published Wednesday, March 17, 2021 6:32AM EDT BEIRUT -- Daraa was an impoverished, neglected provincial city in the farmlands of Syrias south, an overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim backwater far from the more cosmopolitan cities of the countrys heartland. But in March 2011 it became the first to explode against the rule of President Bashar Assad. Assads decision to crush the initially peaceful protests propelled Syria into a civil war that has killed more than a half million people, ...

Syrian Arab Republic: Cross-Border Humanitarian Reach and Activities from Turkey (December 2020) Format CONTEXT Shelling in northwest Syria in December continued at lower levels than observed in November, still concentrated on areas around the M4 and M5 highways. Sporadic airstrikes were also recorded, mainly in Kabani in northern Lattakia governorate, while civilian casualties continued to be reported across the northwest due to shelling and explosive hazards including improvised explosive dev...

Homs in 2014: "Kneel and submit!" Foto: Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR / laif It wasnt the heat that made every step on the well-worn asphalt into such a great effort, as if a sticky sludge were grabbing at your feet. No. It was the fear. Fear that I felt too. "You dont have to go on," said those who were already standing in the middle of the road, clearly visible in the light of the streetlights and completely exposed to possible gunfire. The demonstrators on that evening in mid-August 2011 were standi...

ALEPPO: After a decade of violence and conflict, the civil war in Syria has exacted a heavy toll on its population. Millions have been killed, hundreds of thousands have been injured or are displaced, and an untold number are in need of humanitarian assistance. Particularly affected in this terrible situation are the children. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that about 90 percent are in need of urgent aid as they have been profoundly impacted by violence, displacement, sev...