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Good life goes on as Syrian elite sit out war
ReutersBy Michael Stott and Samia Nakhoul DAMASCUS, April 29 (Reuters) - It might sound absurd to talk about normal life in Syria after two years of civil war which have killed more than 70,000 people and left five million more destitute and homeless. Yet in...Tags: Bombings, Bashar Assad, Iran, Apple iPad, United Nations
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World watch
Germany: Berlin will charge a 5 percent tax on overnight stays in hotels, hostels and campsites, starting July 1. The third most visited city in the European Union reported more than 20 million overnight hotel stays in 2010. The levy is expected to...Tags: European Union, Arts and Culture, Berlin (Germany), Tourism and Leisure, Punishment
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INSIGHT-Good life goes on as Syrian elite sit out war
ReutersBy Michael Stott and Samia Nakhoul DAMASCUS, April 28 (Reuters) - It might sound absurd to talk about normal life in Syria after two years of civil war which have killed more than 70,000 people and left five million more destitute and homeless. Yet in...Tags: Bombings, Bashar Assad, Iran, Apple iPad, United Nations
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Elephant poaching on rise in chaos-hit C.African Republic
ReutersBy Bate Felix DAKAR, April 26 (Reuters) - Elephant poachers are taking advantage of the chaos in Central African Republic to hunt down the animals in protected wildlife areas and openly sell their meat in village markets, campaigners said on Friday. The...Tags: World Wildlife Fund, Africa, Environmental Issues, Conservation, Francois Bozize
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READER SUBMITTED: Local Musician Thomas Kelley Plays Tenor Saxophone On National Stage
CantonThomas Kelley of Canton plays tenor saxophone for University of the Pacific's Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet and will perform later this month at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., and two days later during the first-ever Dave...Tags: Washington, DC, Arts, United Nations General Assembly, Music, Travel
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Greenpeace activists board Australian coal ship in reef protest
ReutersSYDNEY, April 24 (Reuters) - Six Greenpeace activists boarded a coal ship bound for South Korea near Australia's Great Barrier Reef on Wednesday, protesting against the expansion of the rich Australian coal industry and its impact on the World Heritage...Tags: South Korea, Australia, Greenpeace, Metal and Mineral, Mining
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Foreign correspondence: Take a peak in northeast Italy
What's it like to live in a far-off place most of us see only on a vacation? Foreign Correspondence is an interview with someone who lives in a spot you may want to visit. Vernon McClure, 48, is a Kentucky native who has been living in Italy for the last...Tags: Petroleum Industry, World War I (1914-1918), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Italy, Trips and Vacations
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Libya's desert "pearl" Ghadames awaits return of tourists
ReutersBy Marie-Louise Gumuchian GHADAMES, Libya, April 22 (Reuters) - Perched on a low wall in the centre of the Libyan desert oasis town of Ghadames, 80-year old tourist guide Mohammed Ibrahim says he is waiting for the foreign visitors he used to show around...Tags: Arab Spring, International Travel, Muammar Gaddafi, Tourism and Leisure, Libya
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Intersections: Increased demand for Armenian language skills
On a Saturday morning in a brightly lit classroom at the Burbank Adult School, a group of students are practicing their language skills. Except it's not English they're learning. It's not even Spanish. It's Armenian. Though its Western counterpart...
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He's got Armenia under his skin, and we get a guidebook
By some measures, Matthew Karanian was a Connecticut Yankee: a 34-year-old litigator in Hartford, American-born and bred. But he had a wild idea. So he took a summer off, headed for the rustic land of his ancestors, and soon found that Armenia was...
Tags: Russia, World War I (1914-1918), Tourism and Leisure, Travel, Armenia
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Uruguay: Coastal reveries, away from it all
COLONIA DEL SACRAMENTO, Uruguay — Straddling the crest of a sand dune, my back to the Atlantic Ocean, I watched a Uruguayan boy net fish in a river lagoon. He waded through the chest-high water, dragging behind him the reflection of the setting sun....
Tags: Ice Cream, Uruguay, Gelato, Bodies of Water, Steaks
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Hopi masks auctioned in Paris amid outrage and legal objections
This post has been corrected. See below for details. The gavel came down on 70 sacred Hopi Indian masks at the Drouot auction house in Paris on Friday, generating $1.2 million for the owners and auctioneers – and anger and emotional cries from...Tags: Arts and Culture, Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Mexico, Museums, Auction Service
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