By Karl Plume and Nathan Frandino ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (Reuters) – An army of private volunteers including mule drivers and helicopter pilots are helping deliver supplies and rescue stranded victims after one of the deadliest storms in recent U.S. history ripped through the mountains of western North Carolina. One week after Helene slammed into the Florida Panhandle and devastated wide swaths of half a dozen states, untold thousands remained cut off around Asheville, North Carolina, […]
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Meticulous restoration of China’s Great Wall is supported by mules
BEIJING, China (Reuters) – As the sun rises over one of the most dangerous and least-restored stretches of China’s Great Wall, a line of pack mules emerge from the gloom of a dense forest still draped in mist and dew. Laden with 10-kilogram bricks, the seven mules pause, then move again as their masters coax them into action, keen to gain some altitude before the heat of the day sets in. For more than a […]





