The United Nations said a million of Tajikistan's 6.2 million citizens could be hit by famine this winter; the situation could worsen, officials say, if a flood of Afghan war refugees joins them.
When Clint Eastwood's American Sniper vaulted the barricades and ended up in blockbuster territory with $547.4m worldwide at the start of last year, we were promised a flood of patriotic war movies.
Many have learned how their own parents and grandparents suffered as refugees once, and that it was only by taking in that ragged flood of the war-torn and homeless, wounded and despairing, that the country began to heal itself.
To a city cursed by as many plagues as biblical Egypt — cholera, endless floods of refugees, war, hunger and genocidal militias, to name a few — the next eruption is just one more thing to worry about.
Now cultural "peel" is becoming thinner and thinner and there is a risk that the glowing chaos of war flood the whole world... Chimera's bottle of vodka.
It even got me thinking about the recent refugee crisis and the flood of people leaving war-torn homelands like Syria to find a better lot.
The tug-of-wars and flood-plain meanderings of poems aren't contrariness or a way of ducking.
The hospital at Kuajok has been flooded with the casualties of war.
Contrary to popular belief, Britain DID produce a flood of refugees during World War II: 3.5 million British refugees fled their homes, but because the war was an international war, with no successful invasion, no enemy boots on the ground and aerial bombardment focused on cities, the vast majority of those refugees went to the British countryside.
The longest American war continues amidst a flood of bad news from the war front -- supply routes cut, oil tankers burning, record deaths of soldiers and Afghan civilians, U.S. funding the Taliban to protect U.S. troops... on and on, the war failure stares the United States in the face.
