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April 17, 2022 Reportage

Swinging in the Sand: Unbridled Exhibitionism and Voyeurism in Gran Canaria

Despite the threat of jail and fines, frisky couples still gravitate towards the protected Maspalomas Dunes for open-air swinging.

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February 13, 2022 Reportage

I Saw Firsthand What It Takes to Keep Covid Out of Hong Kong. It Felt Like a Different Planet.

Hong Kong is committed to a “zero-covid” policy, which means it will take every possible measure to prevent a single case.

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February 6, 2022 News / Reportage

The Art of the Protest, Octopus-Style

Animal-rights activists gathered at government buildings in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, to protest against a controversial octopus farm.

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January 23, 2022 News / Reportage

‘Killed for Tapas’: World’s First Octopus Farm Planned on Spanish Island Amid Outcry

Scientists, animal rights activists and conservationists are outraged about the development on a Spanish island of an octopus farm.

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November 14, 2021 Reportage

Gran Canaria’s Al Fresco Sex Scene Has Many Hot and Bothered

Men searching for sex in the protected Maspalomas Dunes are breaking the law and despoiling a protective reserve amid a lack of policing.

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October 22, 2021 Reportage

Old Wounds Fester in Cyprus, Home to World’s Last Divided Capital

By William J. Furney Only the forenames of some people interviewed for this article have been used, to protect their identity in a politically sensitive place.   It’s midnight on the

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October 12, 2021 Reportage / Travel

After Covid, An American Invasion of a Greek Party Island

By William J. Furney “Are all y’all bonding over there?” the bearded, hulking figure of an African-American bellows into his phone as I walk past him in a narrow and

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October 4, 2021 Reportage

The Butchers of Nicosia

LETTER FROM CYPRUS By William J. Furney In the “ghetto” of Nicosia, as my local friend Alexandros describes it, there are many meat shops and barbers, all within a stone’s

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September 25, 2021 Reportage

In Tourism-Devastated Bali, and Crowdfunding Your Way Out of Covid

SPECIAL REPORT By William J. Furney Bali’s main tourism industry was wiped out by Islamic terrorists’ bombs nearly two decades ago, but those repeated Al Qaeda-inspired attacks on tourists partying

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September 19, 2021 Reportage

Blowing Your Top in the Canary Islands

By William J. Furney Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez decided to postpone his trip to the UN General Assembly in New York and head to the Canary Islands, the seven-isle

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