Tag: Lost

Flood-battered farmers in southern Brazil wade through lost harvests

By Amanda Perobelli and Lisandra Paraguassu ELDORADO DO SUL, Brazil (Reuters) – After three days of ferocious rains, Edite de Almeida and her husband fled their flooded home in early May and let loose their humble dairy herd on higher ground. Nearby, the waters rose above her head and within a day they were lapping […]

Where South Africa’s Crunch Election Will Be Won and Lost

(Bloomberg) — The 56,000-seat Moses Mabhida Stadium in the South African port city of Durban was jammed for the unveiling of the ruling African National Congress’s election manifesto launch. Most Read from Bloomberg “We are supported by millions and millions of people,” President Cyril Ramaphosa told the cheering crowd in February, scoffing at the notion […]

Gratitude owed to servicemen and women who lost their lives

Following the cessation of hostilities of our nation’s Civil War, an organization of Union veterans — known as the Grand Army of the Republic — established “Decoration Day” on May 5, 1868, as a time for the nation to honor its war dead by placing flowers on the graves of the fallen. And although many […]