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Inside the hidden society of lightning strike survivors

The Jack Britt high school girls’ soccer team was playing on a muggy evening in Fayetteville, North Carolina, when the sky grew dark. It was 30 September 2015. Shana Williams Turner, a 46-year-old teacher in the school’s special education department, was supervising. She watched as the weather started to turn.

Thunder rumbled above, each clap bringing lightning closer. Shana saw a lightning bolt hit a grocery store across the street. Scared, she and the choir teacher, Richard Butler, ran to a n

'Functional Immunity': The Complicated Path to Justice for Sexual Assault Survivors at the UN

In May 2017, Greta* arrived back at her Geneva apartment from a shopping trip to find over a dozen messages and missed calls from Emir, her former boss. Greta was conflicted and confused. What had started out as a friendship at the start of the year had become progressively more toxic. She decided to call him back. Emir was more senior than her at the United Nations specialised agency they worked at, and she was afraid of how he would react the next day at work if she ignored him. Emir, who was

In lockdown with a conspiracy theorist

On a bright afternoon in early February Mary’s relationship with her mother became untenable. Mary (whose name has been changed) is in her early 30s but had fallen on hard times and had recently moved into her mother’s two-room trailer, a small dwelling surrounded by farmland that has been in the family for generations.

Mary had been doing gruelling shifts offering emergency medical support to the ambulance service in North Carolina. On a rare day off, she woke late and went outside to feed the

Invisible in plain sight: fighting loneliness in the homeless community

Leaving school in February 1989, Rupi found himself, as many do at that age, wondering what next. “I’d meet my friends in the park and we would talk politics, how there is nothing to do in Gavojdia, no opportunities. But at the time, if the police saw a group of men meeting together in public, they could put you in prison. The police would grab you, give you a smack in the head with a truncheon; democratisers they called them.”

Rupi managed to eventually find a job in a factory but the work was

The UN isn’t doing enough to tackle its sexual abuse epidemic. Former staff agree

UN humanitarian air service ( UNHAS) in the Central African Republic, 2013. Ton Koene/Press Association. All rights reserved.

It is important to remember that the UN has been struggling for decades with its own sexual abuse epidemic. Sexual violence during times of war and conflict – “as destructive as any bomb or bullet” as Ban Ki Moon, former security general of the UN put it in 2014 – is nothing new. For it to come from UN peacekeepers and UN-employed civilian staff, people that have sworn t

How war in Ukraine is impacting northeastern Africa

As bombs continue to fall in eastern Ukraine, their impact is felt 2,500 miles away in northeast Africa, where a breastfeeding mother teeters on the edge of starvation. Residing near Nyala, the capital of Sudan’s war-torn South Darfur province, she makes a living cultivating groundnuts on a meager half-acre plot. Whatever sales she makes used to go toward a basic food basket for herself and her three young children. But she can no longer afford to feed both herself and her kids. Most days, she g

What Next for Scotland?

Never has the prospect of an independent Scotland seemed more plausible. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s approval ratings in the region have dropped to all-time lows. Brexit, deeply unpopular in Scotland to begin with (the region voted 62 percent to 38 percent to remain), has become even more so. Independence campaigners comfortably lost their 2014 referendum. But fourteen polls in a row have shown a plurality of its residents now support independence.

Nicola Sturgeon, the leader of the Scottish

Neurodiverse talent is good for business. This company gets why

Twenty-seven-year-old Jordan Jones joined CubeLynx as its first neurodiverse financial modeller this August. Jones, who is autistic, says he applied for between 50 and 100 finance jobs after graduating with a degree in Economics from Manchester Metropolitan University six years ago, but struggled to get a foothold in the industry – until now.

Just before the coronavirus lockdown in March, Jones was interviewing for a role in the finance department at a recruitment company in Manchester. He thou

The QAnon Super PAC Was a Flop

The COVID-19 pandemic has created fertile conditions for the QAnon conspiracy to grow, from online message boards, into the streets at “Save the Children” rallies, and to protests, after the election results were called. It’s jumped the Atlantic, making inroads in France, Britain, and Italy. And it’s headed to Congress. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has staked out her support for the sprawling conspiracy theory—which centers on the false belief that Donald Trump is secretly combatting a deep state

With sport on lockdown, match-fixers are targeting esports stars

These new tournaments are plastered across betting sites such as Bet365 and Paddy Power. With the Premier League postponed, the Olympics cancelled and the race tracks closed, bookmakers have gone from having a free-flowing 24-hour cycle of sporting events to choose from to finding themselves in desperate need of alternatives.

So they have started considering sports they had never considered before or obscure leagues that were normally found in the deepest, darkest recesses of their sites. And w

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