[Link] Over a Hundred Arrested For Setting a Billionaire’s Neighborhood on Fire

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The suburban neighbourhood of Bahria Town in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, is billed as a utopia.

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[Link] 'Sad, lonely feeling': Tokyo man evicted twice, 50 years apart, for Olympic construction

Read: 4/7/2021 www.reuters.com

1/6Kohei Jinno, 87, who was forced to leave his house two times ahead of the 1964 and 2020 Olympics Games to make way for construction of the main stadium, speaks in front of the Olympic Rings monument outside the Japan Olympic Museum near the National Stadium, the main stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Ol

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