Old-Age Poverty

>> Read the first part of our correspondent's journey to Morocco here >> Subscribe for just $1 now After three days in Essaouira we head back to the first city we'd encountered in Morocco, which from my perspective is the jewel in the crown and…

Kate Holmquist who died this weekend aged 62 began writing for The Irish Times in 1985. Kate (or, earlier in her career, Kathryn) wrote on a range of subjects, specialising at different times in the arts, social affairs and education coverage. Over more tha…

Meera Sadagar has not seen her husband for three months. Ten years ago, he packed his belongings and moved over 200 kilometers (124 miles) away to work in a factory, and now rarely comes home. If the 35-year-old mother of five is perturbed by this fact, she …

Dont get me wrong - we understand the importance of tourism to the economy but meanwhile in the bush the housing crisis continues, the housing deficit grows, indigenous people are living lives characterised by poverty and neglect and despair. Another child …

Alena Kalejova with her baby Daniela in the eastern village of Ostrovany Old Bratislava has been restored in the last two decades, and tourists crowd its narrow streets, but it is still scarred by the legacy of communist Czechoslovakia, with boxy housing and…

In last week's Democratic presidential debates, both nights began with a discussion of health care, and the issue received more time than any other. Most Democrats believe that Republican attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) backfired, resulting i…

Two law enforcement officials familiar with the inquiry, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation, identified the suspect as Patrick Crusius, a 21-year-old man from a suburb near Dallas, about a nine-hour drive from El Paso.…

The documents, if genuine, seem to have been exposed through carelessness on the part of Extinction Rebellion, not a computer hack. Anyway, Paul Homewood has been filleting some of the best bits and here is what he has found. If verified, this confirms Extin…

DW: August 2, 1944, was a particularly dark day in the Nazis' persecution of Roma and Sinti people. What exactly happened? Karola Fings: On the night between August 2 and August 3, 1944, the so-called Gypsy Camp in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and ex…

Posted August 03, 2019 05:09:06 A young Uyghur woman smiles as she threads a needle to the backdrop of tinkling piano music. Key points: China says diplomats have been shown "a real Xinjiang"Sanitised tours mask the reality of the camps,…