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  • March 6, 2021 William J. Furney

    African Migrants in the Canaries: Not a Drop of Water to Drink

    By William J. Furney PLAYA DEL INGLES — On a run early this morning on the subtropical island of Gran

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  • February 21, 2021 William J. Furney

    The Pain in Spain 

    By William J. Furney It seems hard to imagine that just a few short decades ago, European holiday favourite Spain

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  • February 13, 2021 William J. Furney

    In China, No News Is Great News

    By William J. Furney The omnipotent might and financial clout of the Communist Party in China means the country’s leaders

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  • January 17, 2021 William J. Furney

    #FakePresident

    By William J. Furney In the end, it wasn’t so much fake news as a bogus leader who refused to

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November 29, 2020 Commentage

Waiting to Exhale (without a Mask)

By William J. Furney Families are having to pay many hundreds of euros for negative coronavirus tests to get into places like Spain, placing an additional burden on them in

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November 22, 2020 Commentage

Unwelcome Strangers in a Very Strange Land

By William J. Furney MASPALOMAS — They move like spooked yet expectant ghosts in this fat land. Their exotic, ebony skin is an anomaly on an homogenous island renowned for

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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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October 25, 2020 Commentary

Europe Takes a Bite Out of ‘Vegan Burgers’ and Finds Them to Its Taste

By William J. Furney Fancy a “vegan tube”? How about a “veggie disc”? These were the meaty issues European politicians were digging into this week as they chewed over proposals

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October 18, 2020 Commentary

Are We On Track for Coronavirus Success?

By William J. Furney Donald Trump, approaching his 80s, gets coronavirus and is out in public and attending an election rally days later. The queen of Britain, getting on to

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October 10, 2020 Commentary

Humans: A Work in Progress

By William J. Furney Wisdom teeth are on the way out. We no longer need these large and troublesome molars to grind up rough and fibrous food because, it’s believed,

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October 4, 2020 Commentary

Flushed with New Space Successes 

By William J. Furney The lucky crew aboard the International Space Station are to get a new, multimillion-dollar loo. It’s costing the American taxpayer $23 million and will enable those

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September 27, 2020 Commentary

At Virtual UN General Assembly, a Call for Coronavirus Reason

By William J. Furney World leaders were not jetting to New York this week for the annual spectacle that is the United Nations General Assembly, but instead, thanks to coronavirus,

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September 12, 2020 Commentary

A Greek Tragedy as Thousands Lie Destitute on the Golden Streets of Europe

By William J. Furney Around 13,000 people from impoverished and warring parts of the world ended up on the tiny Greek island of Lesbos only for their expansive migrant camp

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