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• The city and life I have known no longer exist’ 
This road was once crowded with students, taxis and street vendors. It was always noisy and jammed. Buildings - gone The only shop I found open was a pharmacy run by my friend Eyad Sayegh. He's an Orthodox Christian, and I stopped to wish him a Merry ...
• Gaza Palestinians: ‘Everywhere is dangerous’
He said that when he returns home at 7 p.m. the streets are deserted. “There are no taxis, so a media car takes me home. In the streets, nothing is moving,” he said. “There’s no electricity, so it’s very dark and it’s too dangerous to be ...
• Rio police use war tactics against drug gangs
In this and similar operations in other favelas in Rio, police have banned motorcycle-taxis -- a vehicle often used for distributing drugs. Residents say police have broken in doors and roughed people up, shut down neighborhood dance parties, cut off ...
• Carnival industry transforms Brazil shantytown
Most taxi drivers know how to get there and there are taxis waiting to take tourists back. CITY OF SAMBA Located at Rua Rivadavia Correa no. 60, in the Gamboa district behind the city center. It is advisable to take a taxi there since the neighborhood ...
• Rotterdam's year of architecture
... year of architecture that aims to showcase its urban landscape? Well, actually it is. Wrecking balls and scaffolding are as much a part of this city as the kinked pylon of the Erasmus Bridge, which towers over the River Maas, and the water taxis and ...