(SANTA ROSA, Calif.) — Jessica Tunis screamed at her mother to run out of the burning house but Linda Tunis said she was trapped, there was fire everywhere, and the last thing she said to her daughter was that she was going die before the call dropped. The younger Tunis immediately called 911 early Monday,…

melalui ‘My Sweet Momma.’ Daughter’s Search for Mom Trapped in Wildfires Ends in Heartbreak — TIME

(BARCELONA) — Spanish unionists in Catalonia finally found their voice on Sunday, resurrecting Spain’s flag as a symbol of patriotism after decades of it being associated with the Franco dictatorship. In a defiant challenge to plans by Catalonia’s regional government to unilaterally declare independence, hundreds of thousands of people flooded the streets of Barcelona in…

melalui ‘Catalonia Is Spain.’ Spanish Unionists Lead Huge Barcelona Rally — TIME

(COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh) — An overcrowded boat carrying Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar capsized in the confluence of a river and the Bay of Bengal and at least 12 people died, police said Monday. Five of the dead were children. Up to 35 people were on the boat and eight survived the capsizing, local police official…

melalui A Boat Carrying Rohingya Refugees Capsized in the Bay of Bengal, Killing At Least 12 — TIME

These days, as his face gazes out from t-shirts, murals and dorm-room posters around the world, it could be easy to think that Che Guevara — or, more commonly, simply Che — is more of an idea than a man. But he lived a human life which, as all lives must, came to an end…

melalui Read TIME’s Original Report on the Death of Che Guevara — TIME

The nightmare scenario has played out for the U.S. men’s national team. A roller coaster of a qualifying campaign ended in shambles, with a stunning 2-1 loss to Trinidad & Tobago, coupled with wins by Panama and Honduras over Costa Rica and Mexico, respectively, has eliminated the USA from the World Cup. The Americans will…

melalui The U.S. Men’s Soccer Team Has Failed to Qualify for the 2018 World Cup — TIME

(TOKYO) — A volcano in southwestern Japan has erupted for the first time in six years and spread ash in nearby cities and towns. Japanese broadcaster TBS showed footage of elementary school students wearing helmets and masks on the way to their school at the foot of the Shinmoedake volcano. Residents also described rumbles being…

melalui Erupting Japanese Volcano Sends Ash Falling Onto Four Cities — TIME

Myanmar’s security forces conducted a “well-organized, coordinated and systematic” offensive against the Rohingya population that deliberately aimed to permanently expel the Muslim minority from the country, a damning U.N. report concluded Wednesday. “Credible information indicates that the Myanmar security forces purposely destroyed the property of the Rohingyas, scorched their dwellings and entire villages in northern…

melalui Myanmar’s Military Is Conducting a Campaign of ‘Trauma and Fear’ to Prevent Rohingya From Returning — TIME

Recent weeks have likely forever stained Myanmar’s widely heralded transition from direct military rule. From a feel-good story of the retreat of the military and the rise to power of Nobel laureate and democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, the catastrophically divided nature of Myanmar society has been revealed as the source of new militancy,…

melalui Review: Myanmar’s Enemy Within and the Making of Anti-Muslim Rage — TIME

“How does it feel / to be without a home,” goes the chorus of Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone”—the 1965 folk song that notoriously helped inspire the naming of Rolling Stone, the iconic counterculture magazine founded by Jann Wenner in 1967. All too appropriate now. Reports emerged this weekend that Rolling Stone, which is…

melalui Rolling Stone magazine’s best music writing (or the little of it that you can read online) — Quartz

United Nations, New York This time last year, Bangladesh’s prime minister Sheikh Hasina sat with Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) discussing, among other things, the plight of the Rohingya, a persecuted Muslim minority. Under fire for allowing violence against the Rohingya to continue…

melalui As Myanmar’s Rohingya pour in, a struggling Bangladesh is worried about terrorism — Quartz