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November 15, 2020 Reportage

Western Sahara, Left in Limbo, Erupts into Conflict as Sahrawi Await Elusive Self-Determination Vote

By William J. Furney LAS PALMAS — The head of a ragtag rebel group in Western Sahara is incandescent with rage. The Mococcan military has launched what he says is

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November 8, 2020 Reportage / Travel

Travel in a Time of Coronavirus 

By William J. Furney Garda (Irish police) checkpoints, traffic jammed and snaking back further than the eye can see, everything except places of business selling “essential services” shuttered for over

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May 24, 2020 Reportage

On the Crest of Coronavirus Waves

By William J. Furney Britain’s beaches may be packed with people, in a country with the world’s second-highest coronavirus death toll, while Spain’s will only tomorrow start opening up and

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May 9, 2020 Reportage / Travel

A Rude Sahara Sandstorm Diversion That Went Viral

By William J. Furney I am wondering if it’s possible that I’m sitting across the narrow aisle from the most annoying person in the world. In a blaring brash voice,

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February 8, 2020 Reportage / Travel

What a Sight: Mystical Men and Magical Machines

By William J. Furney Half an hour before heading to the airport for a flight to Istanbul, I realised I didn’t have a visa and my passport was invalid.  It

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October 26, 2019 Commentary / International Affairs / Reportage

Spain Must Free Catalonian Independence Prisoners to Restore Order 

By William J. Furney, in Barcelona It’s past midnight on Monday in the Catalonian capital Barcelona, where nine independence leaders were jailed by the Spanish Supreme Court earlier in the

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May 11, 2019 Reportage / Travel

Tales of Two Pakistanis in Towering Dubai

By William J. Furney In Dubai this week, I encountered two men from Pakistan, one named Muhammad and the other Mohammad, both of them upper-end taxi drivers in an otherwise

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April 22, 2019 Reportage / Travel

If Cattle Can Walk in the Streets of India, Can I Run in Them?

By William J. Furney This Easter Sunday morning on my sweltering hour-plus run along a long stretch of beach by the frenzied Goan town of Candolim, I received several waves

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March 2, 2019 Reportage / Travel

In Berlin, in Search of Bacon

By William J. Furney At the National Art Gallery in Berlin, no one knew anything about Francis Bacon. Not the frazzled women on the ticket desk, nor the attendant they

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February 20, 2019 Commentary / Reportage

The Great French Mutiny: Public Revulsion at the Radical ‘Gilets Jaunes’

By Michel Guilmault As I walked through my French town of Chambery one Saturday afternoon in late January to take part in a demonstration for an action on climate change,

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