Cambria Stories

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He wants to see the Veronica? Tell him he will have to wait until the end of the next century, like everyone else...

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Osman Khareef 10 min read

When Scottish Eyes Are Smiling

‘It’s a braw bricht nicht the nicht,’ we all agreed as we left the Four Elms in Cardiff to return to our highland crofts after watching the day’s rugby.

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Ben Wildsmith 3 min read

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JeanLuc and Igor followed the slight figure of Sophia, as she ducked and weaved through the crowd towards the East Gate of Izmaylovo Park.

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Osman Khareef 12 min read

When you hurl yourself from an airplane and find that your parachute has been packed by a Year Nine student on work experience who only got the placement because his dad financed the company, there must, presumably, be some time to reflect.

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Ben Wildsmith 3 min read

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His Holiness, Cardinal Mirphy paced up and down the office recently vacated by the now-forgotten John Visorkis, ex- CEO of Biophar Drugs Corporation.

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Osman Khareef 6 min read

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In Moscow. In Izmayolovo Park. In the winter snow. Everything is for sale.

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Osman Khareef 8 min read

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January winter, a transport cafe at the Polish-Russian border on the outskirts of Brest, ‘gateway to the East’.

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Osman Khareef 18 min read

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His Supreme Holiness Pope John XXIV, recent successor to the German Pope, stared out of the window of his comfortable modern air-conditioned private office in the Castel Sant'Angelo.

Osman Khareef 8 min read

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With much scraping of chairs, five of the senior officers of the Second Division of the New Army of the Russian Federation sat down at the long table in the otherwise deserted Officers’ Mess of their headquarters on the outskirts of Minsk near the Ukraine border.

Osman Khareef 8 min read