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Mauricio Ruiz is a writer and journalist who has lived in the US, Belgium, Mexico and Norway. His work has appeared in Words Without Borders, CatapultThe CommonThe RumpusElectric LiteratureJMWWRiver TeethLiteral Magazine, among others. He's been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and Myriad Editions Competition in the UK, as well as the Fish Short Story Prize in Ireland. He has received fellowships from OMI writers (NY), Société des auteurs (Belgium), Jakob Sande (Norway), Can Serrat (Spain), and the Three Seas' Council (Rhodes). His second book, Silencios al sur, was published in early 2017, and his work has partially been translated into Dutch and French. Mauricio Ruiz can be followed on Twitter and Instagram.

22 March 2023

Will Saddam Hussein’s yacht become a tourist attraction?

A yacht that belonged to Iraqi president Saddam Hussein lies abandoned and half-sunken in a river in southern Iraq. Thanks to images released by news agency […]
22 March 2023

Brussels launches awareness campaign for e-scooter road safety

Electric scooters have become a popular mode of micro-mobility over the past years, but, at the same time the number of e-scooter users has increased, so […]
22 March 2023

Cirium launches first satellite-based flight tracking tool for airlines

In an industry first, aviation analytics company Cirium has launched a tool that analyses an airline’s routes using satellite-based flight tracking data to identify actual flights […]
22 March 2023

Japan sees spike in number of international tourists

Japan has seen a substantial increase in the number of international tourists since the country open its borders in late 2022, said Shinya Kurosawa, president and […]
22 March 2023

Power could soon be generated from solar panels placed between railway tracks

The Swiss company Sun-Ways has developed a pilot project aimed at integrating solar modules on railway tracks. Thanks to an innovative automatic installation system, the panels […]
21 March 2023

Ryanair launches petition for EU to protect flights during French air traffic control strikes

After failed calls on the European Commission to protect overflights (flights that do not take off or land in France, but merely have routes passing over […]
21 March 2023

NASA and Axiom Space to launch 3rd private mission to space station in 2023

On Tuesday March 14th, NASA announced that it had signed a mission order with Axiom Space for the third private astronaut mission to the International Space […]
21 March 2023

Melting of large Alaskan Glacier poses serious threat to the US

A detailed “body scan” of Malaspina Glacier, one of Alaska’s most iconic glaciers, revealed that its bulk lies below sea level and is undercut by channels […]
21 March 2023

Net Zero by 2050 is dangerous, really dangerous

Yesterday the IPCC Synthesis Report of the Sixth Assessment Report was published. That’s right, the sixth. The seventh will not be published until after 2030. Scanning […]
21 March 2023

Finland ranked happiest country in the world for sixth year in a row

This year’s edition of the World Happiness Report was released on 20 March, uncoincidentally on the International Day of Happiness, and, for the sixth year in […]
21 March 2023

10 days strike at Heathrow to cause disruptions over Easter holiday period

Security guards at Heathrow airport will go on strike for 10 days starting March 31st. This adds to the multiple salary increase protests that are shaking […]
20 March 2023

Number of nights tourists spent in Europe in 2022 reached 95% of pre-Covid level

On 15 January, Eurostat published national-level data on the number of nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments in the last quarter of 2022 and over the […]
20 March 2023

New British Airways campaign invites you to ‘Ask Britain Anything’

What do British people mean when they say ‘hello love’? And, is all British food beige? These are just two of the most-asked questions Americans have […]
20 March 2023

How international travel began to recover in 2022

The pandemic brought the world to a standstill, tourism being one of the industries that suffered the most. 2020 was registered in the books as ”the […]
20 March 2023

Albania’s Vjosa River officially declared a National Park

Albania’s Vjosa River has officially become a National Park. After coordinated international efforts lasting more than a decade, last week Albania’s Council of Ministers ratified the […]
20 March 2023

How can tourism destinations become sustainable?

The road to net-zero is long and strenuous, but we have to walk it in a hurry if we want any chance of reaching the finish […]
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