About A Colony


A timid 12-year-old girl is about to leave her native countryside to begin high school. She becomes lost in the hostile environment, and along the way, she encounters a young indigenous outsider who helps her embrace herself.

The Voice: Why Australia trails New Zealand on Indigenous journey

The Voice: Why Australia trails New Zealand on Indigenous journey
Oct 11,2023 9:41 pm

... Experts cite a range of reasons for this - including the nature of A Colony first established as a convict settlement - but many also point out that the Crown viewed Indigenous Australians as a lesser race than Māori...

‘I feel hopeless': Living in Laos on the brink

‘I feel hopeless': Living in Laos on the brink
Oct 9,2023 4:51 am

... " If you see your country becoming A Colony of China, you see a government that is totally corrupt, and you cannot speak up because if you do you might be killed - would you want to stay? " The debt trap A sparsely populated, landlocked country of 7...

Escaped lovebirds spotted flying across Tadley

Escaped lovebirds spotted flying across Tadley
Aug 17,2023 5:11 am

...By Charlotte AndrewsBBC NewsBrightly-coloured lovebirds have been spotted across a town after A Colony was accidentally released...

Chance discovery helps fight against malaria

Chance discovery helps fight against malaria
Aug 3,2023 11:31 pm

... They found it by chance, after A Colony of mosquitoes in one experiment did not develop the malaria parasite...

Honey bees nested in our chimney for over a year

Honey bees nested in our chimney for over a year
Jul 1,2023 2:20 am

... Any little crevice they can find, a queen would set up A Colony there...

New Zealand seeks to exterminate predators to save native birds

New Zealand seeks to exterminate predators to save native birds
Jun 26,2023 10:00 pm

... For the past 20 years the (Sircet), a volunteer group, has stopped rats and other pests from destroying A Colony of muttonbirds, a ground-nesting species that has all but disappeared from the mainland...

Bee-eaters make historic return to breeding site in Norfolk

Bee-eaters make historic return to breeding site in Norfolk
Jun 16,2023 2:30 am

... A Colony of breeding bee-eaters The RSPB said a trio of the colourful birds, including a nesting pair, had been spotted again in a sand quarry near Cromer...

Mexico cartel turns in own men over US kidnappings

Mexico cartel turns in own men over US kidnappings
Mar 9,2023 7:40 pm

... That rhetoric prompted a furious response in Mexico from President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador who said " Mexico was not a protectorate or A Colony of the United States"...

Mexico cartel turns in own men over US kidnappings

Dec 29,2022 1:41 am

By Will GrantBBC Mexico correspondent

Reports from The Mexican border city of Matamoros say a splinter group of the Gulf Cartel , called The Scorpions Group, has apologised for kidnapping four US citizens last week, killing two of them, and has turned over The Men it says are responsible.

On their Front Pages , many of Mexico's newspapers published a photograph that appears to show five men lying Face Down on the ground, their hands tied, and their T-shirts pulled up above their heads. It was apparently taken as police arrived on The Scene .

A letter from The Scorpions Group was allegedly left with The Men which apologised to The People of Matamoros, to the US victims and their families, and to a Mexican woman killed last week when The Gang fired on a white minivan The Americans were travelling in.

The Associated Press says it has obtained a copy of The Letter from a law enforcement official in The State of Tamaulipas.

" We have decided to turn over those who were directly involved and responsible for the events" The Letter reads, saying The Five had " acted under their own decision-making and lack of discipline". The Letter also accuses The Men of breaking The Cartel 's rules over " protecting the lives of the innocent".

Meanwhile, a health clinic in Matamoros where The Cartel members allegedly took the injured US citizens for treatment has been cordoned off by police. Reports suggest The Four Americans were taken there by The Gang But the two with the worst injuries - Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown - died soon after.

The latest developments come as some doubts have been cast in Mexico on The Initial version of events. The Group were said to have travelled to Matamoros for one of them, Latavia McGee, to undergo a cosmetic Medical Procedure at a clinic in The City . Her three friends were said to have accompanied her to The Appointment .

However, the Reuters news agency has reported that three of The Four Americans had convictions for mainly minor drug-related offences - But one was charged with manufacturing banned narcotics with the intent to distribute.

Reuters says it's seen an internal law enforcement document which shows The Mexican authorities are investigating the possibility The Four Americans were kidnapped having been mistaken for rival cartel members encroaching on their turf.

The question over The Americans ' backstory comes as the political temperature over The Incident in Matamoros continues to rise. In the United States , several Republican politicians, among them the Senator for South Carolina , Lindsey Graham , have called for the use of US military force against Mexico's drug cartels.

Specifically, he's proposing a plan to designate Mexican drug cartels as " Foreign Terrorist Organisations" in order to, as he put it, " unleash The Fury and might of the United States against (them)".

That rhetoric prompted a furious response in Mexico from President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Who Said " Mexico was not a protectorate or A Colony of the United States ". His sentiments were echoed by the Foreign Minister , Marcelo Ebrard , who called Senator Graham's proposal for military intervention " unacceptable".

Amid the tense relations, the US Homeland Security Advisor, Liz Sherwood-Randall, is in Mexico for a meeting with President Lopez Obrador to discuss the worsening crisis over fentanyl and synthetic opioids in the US.

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