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 International envoys converged on eastern Congo on Friday hoping to help end some of the worst violence the central African nation has seen in years, as thousands of anxious, hungry refugees struggled to get home amid a…

Weary refugees try to reach home in eastern Congo 

When Arthur Sawyer was a teenager, fishing boats packed Gloucester harbor, and all you had to do to land a job on the waterfront was ask. On a late fall afternoon 40 years later, Sawyer’s boat, Miss Carla, was one of the…

New England town struggles to preserve fishing