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Kiwi road sign. Photo used with permission. All the original photos and videos were taken by Heather Milton or the author during their 2024 travels. Our recent six-week trip to Aotearoa/New Zealand in late summer and early autumn 2024 presented the ideal opportunity to experience its amazing environment. We hadn't “crossed the ditch” (the Australasian slang for the Tasman Sea) for a holiday since 1985. The Land of the Long White Cloud was created by volcanoes and carved by glaciers. Before the arrival of humans, its flora and fauna evolved in isolation from the rest of the world, and there wer...
Global Voices
US President Joe Biden visits a World War II memorial bearing the name of his uncle, Second Lieutenant Ambrose J. Finnegan, who died in Papua New Guinea. Screenshot from YouTube video on Associated Press channel. Fair use. Several Papua New Guinea leaders and institutions are demanding an apology from United States President Joe Biden, who mentioned in two public speeches that his uncle was killed by cannibals during World War II. While visiting a war memorial in Pennsylvania on April 17, Biden remarked that his uncle, Second Lieutenant Ambrose J. Finnegan, was killed by cannibals after his pl...
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