Nikhil Shah

By: Nikhil Shah On the morning the clocks in Maple Ridge all stopped, nobody noticed for at least ten minutes. Mrs. Alvarez still shouted at her kids to get their shoes on. The school bus still sighed to the curb. The barista at the corner café still burned the first batch of muffins. Everyone’s routines were too loud for silence to mean anything yet. Liam noticed first, but only because he was already late. He burst out of his house with a piece of toast in his mouth, backpack half-zipped....

By Nikhil Shah https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/02/asia/northern-afghanistan-earthquake-latam-intl In a small brick house on the outskirts of Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan, the winter wind slips through cracks in the walls, carrying the cold and the sound of grief. Just days ago, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck the region, killing at least 20 people and leaving hundreds injured. For families already living with little, the quake didn’t just collapse homes—it tore open a deeper question of...