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Free State’s helium gamble: A new energy frontier?
The province is home to the biggest gas and helium project in the country. Will it speed up the shift towards renewable energy sources, or could it potentially hinder progress?…
Your hipster beard has long been problematic
Grégory Pierrot’s analysis of the deep roots of white supremacy and black exploitation in hipster culture in Decolonise Hipsters also offers a way out
Over a million told to flee as Hurricane Florence stalks US East Coast
Hurricane Florence has the potential to bring catastrophic flooding to areas of the eastern United States already soaked by heavy rain
Two dead in Virginia Tech campus shooting
A gunman has ambushed and killed a campus cop and was later found dead at Virginia Tech, the site of one of the worst shooting rampages in US history.
Iran, US to hold talks on Iraq
The United States and Iran will meet in Baghdad in the next few weeks to discuss Tehran taking a ”productive role” in Iraq’s security, the White House said on Sunday. US…
Joining Taliban was ‘a mistake’, says Lindh
John Walker Lindh, interrupting nearly every sentence with a sob, expressed hope that Americans would someday forgive him while he serves a 20-year sentence for joining the…
Police detain man near suspected sniper shooting
Police cars and SWAT teams on Monday detained a man near the scene of the latest suspected sniper shooting in Virginia, US media reported.
Charles Taylor draws flak over farcical conference
An open-ended peace conference launched by Liberian President Charles Taylor to end a long civil war has been derided by civic groups and the opposition as a badly organised and…