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I am a South African-born US patriot. My first apartment overlooked the Iwo Jima Memorial in Washington DC. I didn’t understand the reverence with which the guards saluted the American flag. I was annoyed when people said, ‘Have a nice day!’ Americans, I decided, were overfed and under-read.  Then my …

The strange circumstances surrounding the fatal late-night shooting of a police superintendent, allegedly by the daughter-in-law of a UK billionaire with whom he was ‘watching the moon’, have caught the imagination of people across the world, but on this beautiful tropical island, the bizarre and the brutal are never too …

It’s always interesting when a government official or politician tries to spin something bad as something good. The terms ‘glass half full’ or ‘glass half empty’ make perfect sense, because they illustrate how a situation can be interpreted in different ways. But if you try to make a glass that …

Oh come on Simon – you’re not really black! I’ve lost count of the number of times this has been said to me by both white and black people. I know why they say it. It’s because my adopted parents are white, my wife is white and my circle of …

“We’re all Palestinians now,” some say, as people around the world are under Covid-19 lockdown and rendered jobless. While the reference is apt, Palestinians in Gaza have been under the most severe lockdown in the world for 14 long years.   As 2021 has gone on, it has become increasingly clear …

How many stories about how “just a man” was “out there somewhere” and became “fact”, even assuming that this is possible? The scenarios are countless, no one knows how life will go, where it will lead. You can drift, you can resist him. The outcome is unknown, the result is …

Man killed friend with an ax and carried the body to the balcony. Resident of Astrakhan suspected of killing his friend, according to the website of the regional Department of the Investigative Committee. The police asked the suspect a friend. He said that December 25 came to visit his friend, …

29-year-old man from Kramatorsk three days, lived near the corpse of a murdered them mother, and then told the neighbor that she fell and hit her head. On the death of 52-year-old woman police said a neighbor. Arrived on the scene investigative team immediately identified traces of a violent death …

The man continued to drink after the murder. In Kramatorsk Donetsk region the drunk 29-year-old boy was beaten to death by mother, with whom he had verbal sparring. On the death of 52-year-old woman became known after the call of a neighbor, became suspicious. The corpse had traces of violent …

Couples who have lived together for dozens of years The website Bored Panda has urged its readers to share photos of happy couples that have lived all my life together. Within days, readers have started to fill the editorial photos. These pictures prove that true love exists, and time has …