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France to build Calais camp for 1,500 migrants

By Pierre Savary CALAIS, France (Reuters) – France plans to build a camp this winter for as many as 1,500 migrants in the northern port city of Calais where twice that many are living in tents and hoping to make the sea-crossing to Britain. European Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans, visiting Calais with French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, said the Commission would contribute 5 million euros ($5.6 million) to the new

Where Figs Grow

Out of nothing, something emerges. Swiftly, matter fills air. That nothing, of course, is always something. And that something is never nothing. Empty space is vast & full of life. Ready to bloom. Nectar in the ether.There’s sweet nothingness in your life on the verge to emerge. Right now taking shape on earth, pouring forth from the pulse…

Neurologist, author Oliver Sacks dies at age 82

Oliver Sacks, the neurologist who studied the intricacies of the brain and wrote eloquently about them in books such as “Awakenings” and “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” died on Sunday at the age of 82, his personal assistant said. The British-born Sacks, who announced in February that he had terminal liver cancer, died at his home in New York City at 1:30 a.m. with his partner,

Ghana strike ends but election campaign to test IMF deal further

By Matthew Mpoke Bigg ACCRA (Reuters) – Ghana faced down the first major challenge to an IMF austerity programme on Monday when doctors suspended a three-week strike but a bigger test of President John Mahama’s commitment will come next year as he fights for reelection. The International Monetary Fund deal is designed to restore fiscal stability and kickstart growth in a country that recently lost its reputation as one of