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Letter from the North: Another Day Out

April 6th, 2022. As the Covid restrictions are being removed and life returns to a semblance of normality it was time for another day out. It was a beautiful spring day, a clear blue sky and 15°C when I hit the road. The prospect of a 200-mile drive up

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View from Your Window

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What Covid Measures Have Cost Cancer Patients

Timothy P Hanna Queen’s University, Ontario Dr. Timothy Hanna is a radiation oncologist and associate professor of Oncology and Public Health Sciences based in the Queen’s University Cancer Research Institute (QCRI) Division of Cancer Care and Epidemiology (CCE). Unlike the COVID-19 pandemic, the cancer pandemic has raged on

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China Locks Down Its Financial Hub

China Locks Down Its Financial Hub

Jordan Schachtel brownstone.org Jordan Schachtel is an Independent investigative journalist. Some 25 months after their infamous Wuhan lockdown, the Chinese government has launched an even more ambitious lockdown campaign, this time in Shanghai, the country’s biggest city. This time, the stakes are even higher. The Shanghai lockdown is

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Myanmar Is Caught Between Russia and Ukraine

Myanmar Is Caught Between Russia and Ukraine

4 April 2022. Since my last report many of my sources have managed to leave Myanmar and are safe in Europe, and mostly the USA. It is becoming apparent that more and more, the global nature of disputes and conflicts is demonstrated in the interconnectivity of reactions and support for

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Afghan Girls Are a Pawn in a Taliban Game of Chess

Afghan Girls Are a Pawn in a Taliban Game of Chess

Sippi Azarbaijani Moghaddam University of St Andrews Sippi Azarbaijani-Moghaddam is an Iranian-born British national, Oxford graduate, international consultant and social scientist with 28 years’ experience in conflict and post-conflict settings, notably Afghanistan. Afghan children and teenagers have not had much to look forward to since the Taliban took power in

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Monday Roll-up of News Stories From Around the World

Simon Black sovereignman.com Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur and a free man. His daily e-letter, Notes from the Field, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more freedom,

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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this photo? Yesterday’s photo is a view of Taihape’s main street. The black smoke billowing ute turning had an anti-govt/mandate sticker on it, which

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Tell Us about Life in Your Country

Here at The BFD we currently have writers based in New Zealand, Australia, Israel, Hong Kong and the UK but we have readers from many other countries. This article is a shout out to writers in other countries asking you to please consider writing an article for The BFD telling

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The BFD World News Quiz

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