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How are you adjusting to your new home? 

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“It’s past 5 a.m. I’m gazing at glorious clouds from my plane windows. 

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When the late Pope Francis opened the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica inside Vatican on Dec. 24, 2024, it heralded the Jubilee of Hope, a tradition celebrated every 25 years by the Catholic church.

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One early evening before the UN high level week, across the UN headquarters stood a handful of protesters with placards that read, “Children are dying of hunger in Gaza.”  By the pocket park beside the Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, a group of rallyists held a “Free Iran” banner.

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It was my first time in Siargao, the island paradise and surfer’s capital of the Philippines.

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