Paulo Nunes dos Santos

New York Times — TUAM, Ireland - That 796 children, mainly babies, died at St. Mary's Mother and Baby Home between 1925 and its closing in 1961 is not disputed. A local historian, Catherine Corless, says she researched the death certificates. What troubled her was that she could find burial records for only one child and wanted a plaque to commemorate the lives of the others. Ms. Corless surmised that the children's bodies were interred in a septic tank behind the home, and she then met a local man who said he had seen bones there while playing as a child.

Al Jazeera — Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Al Jazeera Pro-Russia activists stand guard at a newly built checkpoint outside Druzhkivka, a city in the eastern Donetsk region. In the past couple of weeks, several cities and villages in the eastern region of Ukraine have been taken under control by separatist armed groups who reject the newly appointed government in Kiev. /Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Al Jazeera A pro-Russia activist carries cobblestones that will be used to fortify a newly built barricade around the Donbass Regional Government building in central Donetsk, hours before the end of the 48-hour deadline given by the Ukrainian government in Kiev for the activists to evacuate the building.

Expresso — No átrio da catedral Spaso-Preobrazhensky no centro de Odessa, Oksana Leontieva conversa com um grupo de amigas após terminada a missa dominical. O assunto do dia é o referendo que horas antes teve início na península da Crimeia. "É óbvio que perdemos a Crimeia," afirma Oksana. "Este referendo é uma fantochada orquestrada por Putin. Como pode alguém considerar um voto como democrático, quando a população vai às urnas debaixo de intimidação de homens armados ao serviço de um país ocupante, para escolher entre duas opções que significam exactamente o mesmo", questiona, ao apontar o facto de que o milhão e meio de eleitores na Crimeia estarem a escolher entre a integração na Federação Russa e uma autonomia mais alargada em relação a Kiev que eventualmente ditará a separação da Ucrânia.

New York Times — ATHLONE, Ireland - The demolition getting underway here recently was in a housing complex where a 2-year-old, probably chasing a dog, had climbed through a fence last year and drowned in a pool of water behind a dozen partly constructed homes. John Burke, hired to do the job, marveled that the half-built houses he was about to bulldoze once carried a price tag of more than $450,000. He estimated that he was about to grind $500,000 worth of abandoned construction into gravel. "You can't do anything with these houses," he said, as his workers made neat piles of the billboard posters surrounding the complex that once promised idyllic living.

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paulonunesdossantos.photoshelter.com — Since the 6th of June 2011, the Sudan's Army Forces (SAF) initiated, under direct orders from President Bashir, an attack campaign against civil areas throughout the South Kordofan's province. Hundreds have been killed and many more injured. Local residents, of Nuba origin, have since lived in fear and the majority moved from their homes to caves in the nearby mountains. Others chose to find refuge in South Sudan, driven by the lack of food cause by the agriculture production halt due to the constant bombardments of rural areas.

paulonunesdossantos.photoshelter.com — Images of SPLA-North rebel forces in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan, Sudan. SPLA-North, a historical ally of SPLA, South Sudan's former rebel forces, has since last June being fighting the Sudanese Army Forces (SAF) over the right to autonomy and of the end of persecution of Nuba people by the regime of President Bashir.

paulonunesdossantos.photoshelter.com — As Syria's war rages on, kurdish Groups in a remote region near Turkey and Iraq have taken control. Militarily supported by the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), the Syrian Kurds make up nine percent of the country's population or 2 million people. The government considers the northeast of the country where many Kurds live strategically important, because it contains a large percentage of the country's oil supplies. Syrian Kurds' aspirations for self-rule have potentially seismic consequences for Syria's neighbours, which have long suppressed nationalist sentiments among their own sizeable Kurdish populations.

paulonunesdossantos.photoshelter.com — Syrian civilians are fleeing the city of Aleppo in increasing numbers, amid a lull in fighting between rebels and government forces. Many adventure to cross the border to neighboring Turkey but some opt to stay in nearby villages in the hope to go back to their homes as soon the bloody civil war ends.

paulonunesdossantos.photoshelter.com — The battle for Aleppo.

paulonunesdossantos.photoshelter.com — Rough edit of images on the Afghan National Police Academy in Kabul.

New York Times — A rebel fighter was shot by a sniper during fighting in Zawiyah, a strategic oil port near Tripoli, on Monday. The rebels said they had the capital surrounded.

Time Magazine — April 1-or April Fool's Day-is traditionally a time for harmless pranks and practical jokes. It is a day when many will be taken in by good-natured mischief, whether tricked by the most elaborate or the simplest of deceptions. In the spirit of tomfoolery and fabrications, LightBox presents a selection images that show some of the more surreal and bizarre realities of the world around us, all photographed during the mad month of March.

Irish Times — PAULO NUNES DOS SANTOS in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan, and MARY FITZGERALD Conflict has driven over 100,000 people from their homes. Hungry and still under threat, the weaker do not make it to safety. Are Irish components playing a role in a vicious military campaign? UNDER A BLAZING sun, scores of starving women and children walk the dry plains of the Nuba Mountains in Sudan's war-torn state of South Kordofan. They are among 100,000 Nubians who have fled to the newly independent neighbour of South Sudan over the past year, driven from their homes by intense fighting between the rebels of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N) and the Sudanese armed forces.

www.thesundaytimes.co.uk — (PHOTO ONLY) - Syria kidnappings terror: Find the cash or I will send his fingers Kidnap is big business in lawless Syria. The father of one victim tells Hala Jaber of the chilling call he received A rebel from the Free Syrian Army, which has been accused of kidnappings (Paulo Nunes dos Santos)

news.ifeng.com — Battle for Aleppo - SLIDESHOW

www.lemonde.fr — avec M Le magazine du Monde Le Monde | De la capitale irlandaise où il est né, l'écrivain et dramaturge Sam Millar avoue avoir développé une vision paradoxale : "Très souvent, dans mes romans policiers, j'ai décrit Belfast comme un grandiose et magnifique mausolée de marbre. Mais quand on ouvre ce tombeau, on n'y découvre que corruption et ossements délités." Pourtant, après un temps d'exil aux Etats-Unis, l'auteur a choisi de revenir dans la ville de son enfance. Il lui fait la part belle dans son autobiographie, On the Brinks (Seuil).

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