Horses jump bonfires as Spain’s purification ceremony returns after pandemic break
San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain Reuters About a hundred horses jumped through bonfires in a purification ceremony on Sunday during the Spanish festival of “Las Luminarias”, which was held for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The traditional nighttime celebration takes place in San Bartolome de Pinares every 16th January, the […]
Tigray conflict: Ethiopian diaspora torn by ethnic tensions
HELINA SELEMON, of The Associated Press, reports on the response of the Ethiopian diaspora in the US to the ongoing conflict in the nation…
Hundreds of US-bound migrants in caravan stuck at Guatemala border
Tegucugalpa, HondurasReuters Hundreds of Hondurans and Nicaraguans on Saturday reached the Guatemalan border but were prevented from crossing by Guatemalan security forces, the first such US-bound migrant caravan to be formed this year in Central America. Some migrants at the Izabel border crossing in Guatemala threw objects at Guatemalan security forces, who pushed them back […]
Essay: What is wishcycling? Two waste experts explain
JESSICA HEIGES and KATE O’NEILL, of the University of California, explain – in an article first published on The Conversation – the concept of ‘wishcycling’…