| 单词 | tarpaulin |
| 例句 | Only once the lid was leaning against the tarpaulin did I dare let my senses consider what was beyond it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I looked beyond the end of the tarpaulin. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The boat was heavy laden with casks covered in a tarpaulin. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z In the storeroom he put on his high boots and his oilskin raincoat and sou’wester, and then he went to the lean-to and put up the coal-silk tarpaulin on La Belle Sauvage. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Mrs. Coulter had no idea what that could mean, and watched with intense curiosity as they prepared to take off the tarpaulin. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I tied the bucket in place using rope and the tarpaulin hooks on the side of the boat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I took out needle and thread and went about mending the tears in the tarpaulin. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z There was a little looseness in the tarpaulin as the rope went from one hook on one side of the stem to the next hook on the other side. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He carefully unfastened the nearest part of the tarpaulin and lifted it enough to peer out. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I rolled it up and tossed it midway on the tarpaulin to act as a barrier, however small. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z As I always did in those early days, I glanced below the tarpaulin every so often to make sure he wasn’t up to something. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I set myself against the rolled-up edge of the tarpaulin in the middle of the boat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Proof: he did not attack me, even when I was asleep on the tarpaulin. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z When they got to the valley that leads to the cave, they cleared away some underbrush and put up blue tarpaulins. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The boat didn’t seem to have gone up or down, but the rain was still hammering on the tarpaulin. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z After draining it in one go, he had disappeared below the tarpaulin and I had returned to attending to some small matter in the locker. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Most of the time he rested beneath the tarpaulin. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z If I could make the tarpaulin mine, we might get along. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He backed down and returned beneath the tarpaulin. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I threw myself upon the tarpaulin, out of his sight— but directly above him. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He must have fallen off the tarpaulin and drowned. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Fertile stuff, if it can somehow be irrigated, the loess blanketed the underlying structure like a heavy tarpaulin tossed over a piece of machinery. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As well as tents, there are metal shipping containers and makeshift lean-tos, caravans, tarpaulin shelters. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Inside the cave the dead man was still looking placidly up at him, but the tarpaulin and the gold were gone. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Rocks held one edge of the tarpaulin in place along the wall of the bridge. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I turned around, lifted the tarpaulin, and threw up over the side of the moving truck. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She lay flat on the tarpaulin for several minutes, quiet and still, before reaching over and falling into the lifeboat proper. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z There was a light puff of wind at my back that tousled my hair and caused the tarpaulin covering the wagon to pull taut for a moment. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “If you say so,” she said, closing the tarpaulin again. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He made a show of puttering around, checking the cords that held the tarpaulin tight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The back was tall and square, with a tarpaulin hanging loose to conceal whatever might be inside. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z A fourth was already resting crosswise on the tarpaulin. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z We passed the platter of turkey self-consciously and did our best to pretend he wasn’t casting a wet tarpaulin over our entire feast. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I concluded that it must have been on board all along, hiding under the tarpaulin, and that I hadn’t noticed it when I landed with a bounce. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I was on the tarpaulin, wrapped in a blanket, sleeping and dreaming and awakening and daydreaming and generally passing the time. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The tarpaulin was tom in several places, some tears evidently the work of Richard Parker’s claws. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Richard Parker seemed to tolerate my presence at the bow on such days, when the air was like the inside of an oven and he did not move from under the tarpaulin until sunset. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z We crawled into the back, stowing away beneath a tarpaulin. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The bright orange tarpaulin was held down by a strong nylon rope that wove its way between metal grommets in the tarpaulin and blunt hooks on the side of the boat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I leapt up and raised the locker lid again to block the open space between bow bench and tarpaulin. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Then he unrolled the coal-silk tarpaulin and laid that out to dry on the grass. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z But now the tarpaulin was unrolled at the bow; there was nothing to hold the oar in place. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z With bated breath I closed the locker and reached beneath the tarpaulin for the extra oars on the side benches. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Without effort the front half of his body rose in the air and his forepaws came to rest on the rolled-up edge of the tarpaulin. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I swam as fast as I could to one end of the lifeboat, the end still covered by the tarpaulin. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Baba kicked a wooden tennis racket on our tarpaulin spread with the toe of his boot. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I turned and swung, and falling on the tarpaulin, I threw the mako towards the stern. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I dropped it beyond the edge of the tarpaulin for Richard Parker, who hadn’t seen the bird arrive. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The truck has a tarpaulin over its bed. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Reason said No. The tarpaulin was sturdy canvas, not a Japanese paper wall. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I kept my eyes fixed on the horizon of the tarpaulin. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Richard Parker rose unsteadily to his feet on the tarpaulin, eyes blazing as they met mine, ears laid tight to his head, all weapons drawn. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He took a job as a tarpaulin salesman, but he was miserable. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z If he came the other way, climbing atop the tarpaulin from astern, I was in the best position to see him early and, again, take to the water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I did just that: I went to the edge of the tarpaulin and stamped upon the middle bench as I mildly blew into the whistle. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I made it to the middle of the boat, to the edge of the tarpaulin. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Upon the creature’s back were wings made from soiled white tarpaulin or hospital curtains, melted onto the flesh and veined with throbbing arteries. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z At least with the tarpaulin over the boat, he wasn’t out in that brutal rain anymore. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I had imagined her completely out of sight, near the bow beneath the tarpaulin, as far from the hyena as she could get. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z However Richard Parker took possession of the island, the bow and the tarpaulin remained my territory. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z We pass so many tents, some with makeshift shelters and tarpaulin sheeting. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z When I had managed it, I jerked the turtle in the air and brought it onto its back on the tarpaulin. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Faster than a sewing machine working a piece of cloth, I hooked down the tarpaulin on both sides of the boat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Could he burst through the tarpaulin, I wondered. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I needed safe access to the locker and the top of the tarpaulin, no matter the time of day or the weather, no matter his mood. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Pilate darted around the cave calling him, looking for him, while Macon piled the sacks of gold into the tarpaulin. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z She was on the side bench, just beyond the edge of the hyena’s indoor track and barely hidden from me by the bulge of rolled-up tarpaulin. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The tree shakes; leaves and twigs and caterpillars patter down, bouncing off his gray felt hat, hitting the tarpaulin. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He fastened the tarpaulin and leaned back, exhausted, and let Asta explore the scratches on his face with a soft clean puppy tongue. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I could feel him moving off the tarpaulin onto the middle bench and, fatally, bringing a foot down to the floor of the boat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “I’m going to undo the tarpaulin,” he said. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z It thrashed about for a moment before climbing to the stern again and jumping back over the zebra to the middle of the boat, disappearing beneath the tarpaulin. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Under the tarpaulin, he had another twelve inches of space, the distance between the gunnel, which supported the tarpaulin, and the benches, so three feet in all, barely enough for him to stand. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I opened the lid till it fell against the crosswise oar and the edge of the tarpaulin. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Butler unzipped the black tarpaulin, dragging it back across the cargo. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He was wrapping the wing in a tarpaulin. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The oar handle pushed up against the tarpaulin, but tarpaulin, rope and oar held. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Initially I lay on the tarpaulin with my head against its rolled- up bow edge. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He pushed away the plastic tarpaulin and raised himself in the stinking robes and blankets and looked toward the east for any light but there was none. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z There were jeeps and larger trucks with tarpaulins. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I lay comfortably on the tarpaulin and I placed the dream rag on my face, fitting it to my features. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z They built new airstrips as they needed them and lived with the local population or even in hastily dug trenches in the ground sheltered by tarpaulin sheets. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I squeezed in between the side bench and the tarpaulin and pulled the remaining tarpaulin over my head. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z And I had to reach over the net and the rolled-up tarpaulin. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z A shop made from blue tarpaulin sells fried potatoes and falafel, bowls of rice, and sweet tea. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Then he spreads a tarpaulin out on the ground, underneath the chosen tree, wrapping it around the trunk. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The tarpaulin was not as securely fixed going over the stem—which had a very short prow, what in a face would be called a snub nose—as it was elsewhere around the boat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The bus stopped in front of a posada and many of the passengers got down, and a lot of the baggage was unstrapped from the roof from under the big tarpaulins and lifted down. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z My guess was that Richard Parker was on the floor of the lifeboat beneath the tarpaulin, his back to me, facing the zebra, which he had no doubt killed by now. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Martin draped a tarpaulin over his cargo and they rumbled out of the cut, the station agent grumbling profane commentary until they gained the road. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I lay down on the tarpaulin and spent the whole night weeping and grieving, my face buried in my arms. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Someone had made a tent with a tarpaulin. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Several lucky ones returned to the water after a bounce on the tarpaulin. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He wasn’t on the tarpaulin or on a bench. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I eased the oar from under the tarpaulin. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z There were no other surprises in the canoe, so Malcolm pulled the old tarpaulin over it and made sure it was pegged down. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z And the rolled-up tarpaulin and the bulge of the net were even more pitiful defences. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I splashed my urine on the tarpaulin and over the locker lid to stake my claim. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z And at once Malcolm began to regret not having rolled back more of the tarpaulin: he could see hardly anything ahead. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He pulled himself up, rolled back the tarpaulin, found the paddle. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Alex crouched down, afraid that one of the guards would throw back the tarpaulin and discover him, but the voices faded and he found himself alone. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z A dirty tarpaulin flapped loudly on the roof. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z And she reached up and peeled back the tarpaulin a little, revealing a blue stripe of shifting sky. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z It was harmattan, but because they feared the thunderstorms, they covered the ditches with tarpaulins spread across bamboo sticks. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z At the edge of the dry riverbed, in a thicket of saltbush not far from where they had parked, a large object was concealed beneath a dun-colored tarpaulin. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He flowed down to the floor of the lifeboat and disappeared under the tarpaulin. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z In a shed, covered with tarpaulins, lay the crated heavy furniture sent from San Francisco and carted out from King City. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I was pinned by weakness to the tarpaulin. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I lay back on the tarpaulin, arms and legs spread wide. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z If Richard Parker stayed under the tarpaulin all the time, it was for a good reason. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z After adding a little sea water to the bucket’s contents, I placed it on the side bench just beyond the tarpaulin. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The lifeboat, the raft until it was lost, the tarpaulin, the stills, the rain catchers, the plastic bags, the lines, the blankets, the net—all became worn, stretched, slack, cracked, dried, rotted, torn, discoloured. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z His tail was raised, pushing up against the tarpaulin. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z As I rolled back the tarpaulin to the middle bench and daylight came to him, he stirred and growled. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z After I had gathered what I needed for the day from the locker and was ready to go, I tossed another piece over the tarpaulin in front of Richard Parker. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I was lying on a piece of old tarpaulin reading, as I say, Daniel Deronda, when Ruth came wandering over and sat down beside me. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z And between us there was nothing but a thin tarpaulin, easily got round. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Farther along they could see, dimly lit, great iron doors in the mountainside, some open and some shut; and from out of one of the mighty doorways, men were hauling something draped in a tarpaulin. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I was hoping the hyena would stay under the tarpaulin. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The tarpaulin was made of tough, treated canvas, rough on the skin after a while. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z By the looks of it, he was under the tarpaulin. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z And what if the supplies were at the bow, beneath the tarpaulin? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Something was tied to the roof of the car, with a tarpaulin over it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z A head appeared beyond the end of the tarpaulin. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Most of these people traveled in big trucks covered with dark canvas tarpaulins, but there were some trailers and a few camper tops like Rocinante. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Backstage and onstage, they were hammering, banging, gluing, carrying, laying tarpaulin, shimmying up ladders and shouting, “Attention!” After a Renovation, a Storied Theater Hopes to Entice Paris 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z Two were out of commission on my recent visit: Isamu Noguchi’s granite sculpture “Momo taro” was partially wrapped in tarpaulin, and Maya Lin’s popular “Storm King Wavefield” was off-limits because the ground was too wet. Perspective | Sculpture parks are a great way to see art during a pandemic. Here’s why some are better than others. 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z Chicago techno legend Lil Louis played in 2018, so all seats were removed and a tarpaulin laid down so no mess would be made. 10 of the best music venues in Brussels 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Under a vast black tarpaulin something is stirring. Disasters on stage: why can't theatre hit mankind where it hurts? 2011-02-03T15:08:08Z And by the time Lear reaches his fabled end, Ms. Jackson dragged in on a tarpaulin for the character’s final scene, the question that surrounded this staging in advance has long been answered. Review: Glenda Jackson Rivets as King Lear in Her Return to the Stage 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Inside, past three sets of doors and a changing room cordoned off with an old tarpaulin, is a shadowy warren of alcoves, cages and dark corners. Why is the gay leather scene dying? 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z On Efate I spot a few tarpaulins where roofs should be and some big trees down but the capital’s recovery appears very much on track. Vanuatu's Espiritu Santo, where paradise is a leaky canoe without a paddle 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z But the title derives from Mr. Reay’s nightly shelter: an East Village rooftop, where he sleeps under a tarpaulin. Review: ‘Homme Less’ Follows a Homeless Middle-Age Model-Photographer 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z By the end, Tillerson was like a dead animal someone needed to pull a tarpaulin over. Jared Kushner’s ‘Breaking History’ Is a Soulless and Very Selective Memoir 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Thousands of families fleeing the violence and their fear of IS control will be provided with blankets, mattresses, plastic tarpaulin sheeting and warm clothing, it said. Iraq, Syria refugees from Islamic State get winter aid kits: agency 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The hurricane also delayed renovations to the Convention Center, whose adjacent streets are still ringed by barriers and tarpaulins. Art Basel Miami Beach, Post-Irma, Is Still Swinging 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z The two men carry on for block after block after block of tatty tents and improvised tarpaulin shelters. A journey through a land of extreme poverty: welcome to America 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z A suspended tarpaulin, black on one side, silver on the other, slowly rotates, brushing the floor. Dance Review: A Choreographer?s 2 Sides, Cut From the Same Cloth 2011-06-10T21:58:27Z As he did, he nudged aside the tarpaulin, and what she glimpsed – and in the same moment, refused to see – was not a cloven hoof, but the grubby hand of a human child. Winter Break 2010-12-04T00:05:00Z Debussy's soundworld is so hermetically self-contained that the extraneous noises – the distant hum of the city, birdsong, the slap of rain on tarpaulin – seep into the score's textures and threaten its fabric. Pell?as et M?lisande 2010-06-03T21:30:00Z There are several of his signature paintings done on broken plates, as well as other surfaces, such as tarpaulin and black velvet. Julian Schnabel and the Great Painters, Side by Side 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z It presents a dozen large abstract works, some now 25 years old, on tarpaulin, burlap, nylon sailcloth and reversed velvet. Art Review: Two Shows Offer a New Look at Julian Schnabel 2014-04-25T20:17:33Z In reality, there was a tarpaulin in place to catch him, but he had removed it in the doctored photograph to give the illusion of a miraculous, or possibly suicidal, flight. The Week Ahead: May 23 ? 29 2010-05-20T20:56:00Z You have to buy the wood and tarpaulins, and then pay a tax to the local chairman. Welcome to Lagos: Nigeria's dirt poor 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z But the sounds heard are mostly those of objects, of giant tarpaulins being winched taut or slackened, of bowls bowed or tapped, of sputtering cranks turned by hand. Review: Ashley Fure Highlighted in a Composer Portrait at Columbia 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z When the piper finishes his reel, a hush descends, and those at the front of the queue gather their tarpaulins, ready to spring. My love affair with the American bluegrass festival 2013-07-17T12:00:03Z As Mr. Schnabel often does, he used found materials for the canvas, this time repurposing lonas, a type of gabardine tarpaulin he discovered covering a traveling fruit market in the Lagunillas area of southern Mexico. Julian Schnabel’s Art on His Own Terms 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Crammed in with barely any space to move, the passengers banter, dance, cook, eat, sleep and cling desperately to sheets of tarpaulin when the rain pours. ‘Downstream to Kinshasa’ Review: Sisyphean Persistence 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z When confronted by the vast tarpaulins of darkness that envelop Caravaggio's late works, painted as he scurried around Naples, Malta and Sicily, one does wonder how far he believed in personal salvation. Prince of darkness 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z She and her boyfriend were working a rock ledge under a blue tarpaulin. Crystal Visions: Just Dig ?Em Up 2011-07-28T22:27:13Z Along with the picture of Klein’s supposedly netless jump, another shows people on the ground holding up a tarpaulin to catch him safely. Art Review: ‘Faking It’ at the Met, a Photography Exhibition 2012-10-11T22:05:00Z "Sitting under a dripping tarpaulin, there were times that I wondered what on earth I'd done and I longed to be back in the sun of Africa." Nanny state 2010-03-26T08:06:00Z The Saturday night screening of Welcome to New York – in a tent, on a beach, tarpaulin rattling in the breeze, boombox from the party next door shaking the chairs – became this year's hot ticket. Abel Ferrara at Cannes: 'You gotta be careful what you say … but I'm not' 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Adverse weather conditions can make life uncomfortable, so if it is raining try to get your friends to do the work for you while you hide under the tarpaulin. Living Wild by Bear Grylls 2010-05-24T23:05:00Z “There was so much scenery,” Marvin recalls, “that they had to store some of it under tarpaulins outside the back and bring it in during intermission through the big loading doors. It was just vast.” Sing out, sinners! ‘Elmer Gantry’ musical revived at Signature Theatre That assistance can be as simple as providing Bubble Wrap and tarpaulins. When Culture Is Threatened, They Come to the Rescue 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Situated in a working-class neighborhood, it consists of four canopy tents with walls made of recycled tarpaulin. How Malaysia Got in on the Secondhand Clothing Boom 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Now, the family live under a tarpaulin, sleeping on thin mats laid on the ground and spending their days trying to find enough water and food to get by. Displaced Gaza children brought joy by three evacuated cats 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Surrounding about 10 bodies shrouded in white cloth in a tarpaulin tent, relatives prepared garlands of marigolds for the Hindu cremation rites held on the banks of the Bheri River. Sobbing relatives of Nepal quake victims cremate loved ones 2023-11-05T04:00:00Z Surrounding about 10 bodies shrouded in white cloth in a tarpaulin tent, relatives prepared garlands of marigolds for the Hindu cremation rites later in the day. Sobbing relatives of Nepal quake victims prepare for cremations 2023-11-05T04:00:00Z We climb into the truck - sitting on top of tarpaulin bags of belongings are Abdullah's children, grandchildren and his wife. Afghan refugees forced to leave Pakistan say they have nothing 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z The 49-year-old said he was forced to rig up a makeshift outdoor shower, using a sink and a tarpaulin for privacy. Bracknell man says mould forces him to rig up outdoor shower 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z In the village of Ouge Dimt, a man rushes to greet a van bringing rugs, mattresses and tarpaulins, and urgently shouts parking instructions to the driver. Morocco earthquake: Young volunteers answer desperate calls for help 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z Abdulmajid, 47, is now sleeping under tarpaulin across the road from his house. Morocco earthquake: 'I had to choose between my parents and son' 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z "I haven't received any help or assistance from authorities," she told us, holding her baby while sheltering from the sun under a flimsy piece of tarpaulin. Morocco earthquake: Baby starts life in tent as quake victims await aid 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z To avoid revealing their position, they rapidly replace the makeshift roof -- consisting of branches and leaves covering tarpaulin stretched over a metal frame -- and take cover. Ukrainian mortar squads say they meet fierce Russian resistance 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Police traced Gatti at his home later that day and found his badly damaged car covered by a tarpaulin. Drivers face tougher sentences for killing pedestrians 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z Daniel Flores, 54, of Echo Park, went in looking for nylon rope to secure a tarpaulin across his Oldsmobile Cutlass, which he parks on the street. Batteries and bottled water fly off the shelves as L.A. braces for Hurricane Hilary 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z Daniel Flores, 54 of Echo Park, went in looking for nylon rope to secure a tarpaulin across the top of his Oldsmobile Cutlass, which he parks outside. Southern California frantically prepares as Hurricane Hilary barrels in. 'Very, very dangerous' 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z At its entrance, there are long lines of stranded vehicles, mainly large lorries with their loads covered with tarpaulin to shelter them from the rain and the sun. Niger coup: Ecowas deadline sparks anxiety in northern Nigeria 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z The wood was first sprayed with water and kept under a tarpaulin to prevent decay in the summer heat, Korac added. Serbian coal miners uncover Roman ship 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Some now stay in flimsy tarpaulin tents brought down easily by the rain, others bundle themselves in blankets to stay warm. Darfur refugees in Chad scramble for shelter as rainy season starts 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z In the middle room, covered by a tarpaulin, is yet another elegant fresco. Kitchen shrine serpents and other fascinating new Pompeii discoveries 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Garay had killed Ms Godoy before wrapping her body in a tarpaulin and burying her in a makeshift grave on land owned by his family in the Peruvian capital Lima, Kent Police said. Dartford man convicted of the murder of his girlfriend in Peru 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z They enter the enclosure and spread a white tarpaulin out on the ground. Ghana's batmen hunting for pandemic clues 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z The day after the attack, police found the mother-of-three's body hidden under a tarpaulin, wheelbarrow and railway sleepers in a local park where she used to walk after school. Iowa teen jailed for killing Spanish teacher over bad grade 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Surrounded by hundreds of police officers and supporters, they hunker down inside a canopied structure made of blue tarpaulin sheets that serves as a tent. India wrestlers risk Olympic dream for '#MeToo' protest 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z “We don’t even have tarpaulins to make shelters. The villagers have to get their water from the mountains, far from their villages,” he said. Concern rising in Myanmar that supplies needed for recovery from Cyclone Mocha are coming too slowly 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Close to a million Rohingyas refugees remain at risk, living in flimsy bamboo shelters with tarpaulin covers. Cyclone Mocha: Major evacuations as cyclone threatens Bangladesh 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z Temporary tents had been set up using ropes and tarpaulin sheets for shelter from the rain. Brij Bhushan Singh: India wrestlers continue protest against top official 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z Bordering the Bay of Bengal, Teknaf’s shoreline is littered with fishing boats, called “moon boats” because of their crescent shaped arches, dilapidated tarpaulin shacks and unfinished mud houses. Rohingya refugees brave perilous seas to escape camp desperation Blue plastic tarpaulins covered the roofs of houses that still had walls to attach to. Biden Surveys Damage From Deadly Tornado in Mississippi 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z He ended up sleeping under a tarpaulin in woods for almost two years, relying on drinking water from the radiator top-up pumps at petrol stations. 'A village's goodwill saved me from life on the streets' 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z About 2,000 makeshift settlements — mostly assembled from bamboo and blue plastic tarpaulins — were destroyed in a fire that tore through the camp on Sunday night, leaving 12,000 refugees scrambling for shelter. Fire in Bangladesh Camp Adds to Rohingya Refugees’ Misery 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z The blaze is believed to have engulfed around 2,000 shelters - made from bamboo and tarpaulin - at Cox's Bazar camp, leaving an estimated 12,000 people without any accommodation. WATCH: Fire tears through Bangladesh refugee camp 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z After powerful earthquakes struck southern Turkey, Eylem Sahutoglu and her family endured two weeks of freezing nights under a blue tarpaulin. Shattered Homes and Lurking Disease: Quake Hardships Pile Up 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z His family’s shelter was topped with rugs and tarpaulins. Caves, Tents and Shipping Containers: Quake Survivors’ Desperate Hunt for Shelter 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z He had seen a van arrive on Sunday night and cover the area with a tarpaulin, he said, and when he woke up on Monday the mural was there. Banksy's 'Valentine's Day mascara' mural freezer removed by council 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z By Tuesday, more bamboo and tarpaulins had been brought into the camp, to build new shelters for people crowding under poles and lean-tos. Fire in Bangladesh Camp Adds to Rohingya Refugees’ Misery 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Necla had no home to return to, but a family member brought her back to a makeshift blue tent crafted from wood and tarpaulin. Turkey earthquake: Being buried alive with my newborn son 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z “I was very tired because of being pregnant,” she said, outside her family’s new home, assembled from twigs and a sheet of tarpaulin, in a makeshift camp. Pope Francis Lands in Congo, Where All His Priorities Converge 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z There, tiny tents made of tarpaulin and duct tape now fill the landscape, providing pitiful shelter to their occupants, who are often small children and their traumatized mothers. Pope Francis Visits Congo: What to Know 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Around them, dozens of tarpaulin tents have been set up, most of them green, blue and yellow, the colours of the national flag, which are now associated with the country's far-right. Brazil's far-right faithfuls are not giving up 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z The people of the village gathered as the sacks were laid out on a blue tarpaulin. Putin Wants Fealty, and He’s Found It in Africa 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z Russian troops who found him asked local residents who he was and covered his body with tarpaulin. A Ukrainian woman's harrowing quest to find her family 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z On a recent day in Tapairihua, Reuters visited the artisanal mining operations, where dozens of wood and blue tarpaulin homes were erected, and tunnels supported with wooden beams burrowed into the steep rocky hillside. In Peru's hills, an artisanal miner boom frustrates Big Copper's plans 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Officials are now in need of emergency supply items like tarpaulins, tents, medicine and drinking water, Muhari said. Indonesia quake toll soars above 250 amid frantic search for survivors 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z He deflates and deflates and his head vanishes and his skin begins to seep out of the legs of his suit like a big tarpaulin. Opinion | Announcements from Donald Trump that would actually be a surprise 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Soon, workers at the camp draped makeshift tarpaulin covers over the perimeter fence, blocking the view in and out. Young Migrants Describe Hunger, Illness and Trauma at U.K. Asylum Center 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z The police arrived on the scene at the same time and later covered the car and body with a tarpaulin. A picture and its story: Fire-bombing of a seaside English migrant centre 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z Aid workers have stockpiled emergency items such as food, tarpaulins and water purification tablets in refugee camps housing more than a million Rohingya in flimsy shelters in Cox's Bazar. Hundreds of thousands evacuated as Bangladesh braces for cyclone 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z Like many of those whose homes were destroyed by the quake, Kurnaedi’s family is now sleeping in tents made of tarpaulins which have been lashed together in the main square. Indonesia quake toll soars above 250 amid frantic search for survivors 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z In North Port, Fla., a tarpaulin covered the roof of a waterlogged county election office as the midterm elections entered the final stretch. Hurricane Ian’s Toll Poses Another Hurdle for Election Officials in Florida 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z Most of the families surveyed had lost their homes and were living in squalid conditions near roadsides, using pieces of cloth or tarpaulin for shelter from monsoon rains. 3 million children may miss a semester in flood-hit Pakistan 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z The murder charge claims Mr Parsons, of Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire, was then hidden under tarpaulin there in a wooded area and that he died. Twins accused of murdering charity cyclist Tony Parsons 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z The men in waders looked solemn as they heaved buckets of dead fish from a boat and lay the corpses on a tarpaulin stretched out on the riverbank. Oder mass fish deaths: Searching for clues to Polish-German border mystery 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z In the days after the magnitude 7.2 quake hit, they gathered sheets, tarpaulins and wood and made a shelter for themselves and their three children. Many still seeking food, shelter a year after Haiti quake 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z We managed to get a tarpaulin under it and with a bit of effort to lift it into the water. Whale feared dead in Shetland helped back into the sea 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z In small fields, they slash ripe pods from cocoa trees in the spring and fall, then extract the pulpy white beans, which turn brown after they dry on tarpaulins or banana leaves. Ivory Coast Wants a Bigger Bite of the Cocoa Business 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z This includes claims they moved the body from under the tarpaulin to another area of the Auch Estate used for depositing dead animals. Twins accused of murdering charity cyclist Tony Parsons 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Families, including children, were sheltering under torn tarpaulin sheets, exposing them to the rains, Dimaampao said. Philippines airlifts aid to areas cut off since earthquake 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z The family strung a tarpaulin across the terrace and moved upstairs. Large parts of northeastern India still underwater after record rains 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z Marine wildlife specialists and a group of helpers managed to slide the whale back into the water using a tarpaulin, and helped it out of the shallows. Whale feared dead in Shetland helped back into the sea 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Agha Jan and one of his surviving sons are pitching a large sheet of tarpaulin between wooden sticks on a piece of empty ground. Afghanistan earthquake: No food, no shelter and fears of cholera 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z The group wrapped Steve in a tarpaulin, attached ropes around his body and started lowering him over the side to a landing platform known as a Mexefloat. Falklands War: The bombing of the Sir Galahad 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z Two volunteers wrapped the bodies in white plastic tarpaulin and lifted them into a waiting ambulance. Ukraine gathers Russian dead in chilled train for prisoner exchange 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z Cladding and tarpaulin, secured with cords, surround its ornate altars and time-tarnished icons. At a garrison church in a western Ukrainian city, the martial mingles with the sacred 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z There was a grill inside, and customers could shelter, if need be, under a tarpaulin cover. Are Danish hot dogs the best? I went to Copenhagen to find out. 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z In the first few weeks after the eruption, Moala helped out by putting up tents and tarpaulins, and then by cooking food for other volunteers. 3 months after volcanic eruption, Tonga slowly rebuilds 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Photos taken after the attack showed corpses covered with tarpaulins, and the remnants of a rocket painted with the words “For the children” in Russian. Ukraine seeks tough reply after missile kills 52 at station 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Instead, they have been relegated to crowded cattle sheds or rickety tents made of tarpaulin and bamboo. Despite risk of death, Thailand sends Myanmar refugees back 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z They are then relegated to living in crowded cattle sheds or rickety tents made of tarpaulin and bamboo. Despite risk of death, Thailand sends Myanmar refugees back 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z In 2012, some were found covered by a tarpaulin in wasteland in County Meath, but of the 30 stolen, there were rare accordions never recovered. Comber: Burglars target 'accordion man' in £35,000 theft 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z So, he headed back to a forest close to where his old home once stood and started to spend nights in a makeshift shelter built from pieces of wood, bamboo and tarpaulin. The man who lived in a Singapore forest for 30 years 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z She said the Red Cross had about 70 volunteers in Tonga, with access to enough relief supplies for about 1,200 households, including tarpaulins, shelter-building kits and blankets. An island nation covered in ash now worries about a COVID intrusion 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z The kits contain essential items such as tarpaulins, blankets, kitchen sets, sanitary products and water purification tablets. Tonga tsunami: Health warnings over volcanic ash 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z “Red Cross currently has enough relief supplies in the country to support 1,200 households with essential items such as tarpaulins, blankets, kitchen sets, shelter tool kits and hygiene kits,” she said. Impact assessment, aid efforts underway as world responds to Tonga tsunami 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z Reuters reporters on the Thai side of the Moei river on Friday saw an estimated 2,000 men, women and children living under tarpaulin on the opposite bank in four separate locations. Fleeing violence in Myanmar, thousands camp along Thai border river 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Dozens have been accommodated in temporary shelters made of thin tarpaulin sheets and bamboo poles, with village residents and donations from across the state helping provide essentials like food, firewood and clothes. A Myanmar family flees to India with no plans to return soon 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z A blue plastic tarpaulin cordoned off an area where the children were likely to have landed. Five children killed after strong winds send bouncy castle flying in Australia 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z He took me to the tent he had built out of scraps of tarpaulin and cardboard. Yemen's Marib: The city at the heart of a dirty war 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Made of a wooden frame using nearby trees and covered in tarpaulin, the restaurant was built in a day and is slightly sturdier than a tent. In a French migrant camp, a man sells sandwiches to raise smugglers' fee 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Sheets of tarpaulin supported by sticks pepper a public square in the northern Colombian city of Montería where a community of indigenous Emberá people have lived since mid-April. Colombia peace deal: The families displaced five years on 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z At night in the refugee camps, with only a thin tarpaulin wall as protection, Mohammed waits for the men to come and kill him. They Warned Their Names Were on a Hit List. They Were Killed. 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z Once they arrived in Cox’s Bazar, he and his family built a hillside hut out of sticks and plastic tarpaulins and shared it with another family of three. They Were Promised a New Home. Then They Tried to Escape It. 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z After he killed Ms Everard, he bought builders' bags, a tarpaulin and a cargo net, wiped his phone and concocted an implausible and time-wasting web of lies about his involvement in her disappearance. Sarah Everard: Daughter, sister, friend and colleague 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z Nearby, in tarpaulin tents, tundra residents filled out questionnaires and, after being vaccinated, sipped hot tea. How to Vaccinate a Siberian Reindeer Herder 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z Hidden beneath tarpaulins and decoy construction material in the truck bed was a 7.62-mm sniper machine gun. The Scientist and the A.I.-Assisted, Remote-Control Killing Machine 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z The new warplane hidden under tarpaulin was photographed being towed to a parking spot across an airfield in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow, where the MAKS-2021 International Aviation and Space Salon opens Tuesday. Russia to unveil new fighter jet at Moscow’s air show 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z After he killed Ms Everard, he bought builders' bags, a tarpaulin and a cargo net. Sarah Everard: Daughter, sister, friend and colleague 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z The existing rubble, meanwhile, was covered with a tarpaulin to protect it from any dust or debris caused by the collapse. Miami collapse: Remaining structure demolished over safety fears 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z "We pray," he said, sharing pictures of the tarpaulin slung between boulders under the trees where he now sleeps. Myanmar's renewed war scatters tens of thousands to forests 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Australian farmer Norman Moeris lifts a protective tarpaulin covering his valuable grain harvest on a cool evening - only to reveal a seething mass of rodents. Australian farmer counts the cost of mouse plague after drought 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z In an apparent bid to raise public interest before the presentation, Rostec published a picture of the new plane covered by tarpaulin with “wanna see me naked?” written under it. Russia to unveil new fighter jet at Moscow’s air show 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z Today, on one of the islands - Quirimba - rows of white tarpaulin tents line the white sandy beaches. Mozambique Palma attack: 'I had to pay a bribe to flee' 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z Blinston set up a camp with a tarpaulin a little way down a hill. California prosecutor: SWAT team saved 4th slasher victim 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z After researching ambulance bags and speaking to first responders, she chose a material similar to tarpaulin, found on lorries. Taking an invention from idea to the marketplace 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Australian farmer Norman Moeris lifts a protective tarpaulin covering his valuable grain harvest on a cool evening - only to reveal a seething mass of rodents. Australian farmer counts the cost of mouse plague after drought 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z Ms Hibbard said part of the roof was covered with a tarpaulin. Exeter bomb: Homes still damaged two months after blast 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z From the rooftop, now largely covered by a complex scaffolding structure, work platforms and in places a tarpaulin “umbrella”, Macron peered down into the cathedral’s damaged transept and thanked workers on the site. Macron scales Notre-Dame's rooftop two years after cathedral fire 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z Others camp under tarpaulins or on open ground. 'You don't belong': land dispute drives new exodus in Ethiopia’s Tigray 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z That afternoon, he saw a tarpaulin, and then a man cracking nuts besides it. His Plane Crashed in the Amazon. Then Came the Hard Part. 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z On Thursday, families left homeless by the fire built shelters using tarpaulin, ropes and bamboo provided by aid groups. Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh rebuild huts after deadly fire 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z His family then walked for days before arriving in Bangladesh, where they took shelter under a tarpaulin sheet. Fire Tears Through Rohingya Camp, Leaving Thousands Homeless Once More 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Her home, made from bamboo and tarpaulin, was claimed by the blaze as she fled. 'I've lost everything once again': Rohingya recount horror of Cox's Bazar blaze 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z “How long will we stay here under tarpaulins?,” said a 39-year-old refugee who moved on Wednesday with his family. Bangladesh moves more Rohingya Muslims to remote island despite concerns 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z At a riverside pit near Silva’s home, where her father has been living under tarpaulin for weeks, a small group dig below the beating sun. In Brazil, an indigenous woman joins Bolsonaro in fight for mining 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Those motivational tarpaulins masking empty seats, resplendent with club mottos, were colourful and cheery. Life in football's cocoon – a photo essay 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z Most of the money vanished, she says, and she still works from a hovel made of wood and tarpaulin. 'He ruined us': 10 years on, Tunisians curse man who sparked Arab spring 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z But as he approaches a black tarpaulin held down with rocks, his expression changes. Mexico ambush: Mormon families waiting for justice a year on from massacre 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Back-to-back hurricanes in the space of six weeks left this corner of Louisiana blanketed Sunday with tarpaulins, mangled metal and downed power lines — but not necessarily despair. Hurricane Delta turns deadly as ravaged Louisiana cleans up aftermath 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z In Lake Charles, aerial photographs before Delta barreled through captured blotches of blue — the tarpaulins covering homes and businesses whose roofs had been shaved off by Hurricane Laura’s winds. Hurricane Delta Brings Floods and Destruction to an Already Battered Louisiana 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z Tuesday night’s inferno reduced it to a mass of smouldering steel and melted tent tarpaulin. With nowhere to go, Lesbos migrants sleep on roadsides, minors transferred 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Many residents have limited repairs to only one window, or delayed them completely and made do with tarpaulin. Glass is everywhere in blast-shattered Beirut, except where it's supposed to be 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Inside Dakar’s port last week, trucks topped with tarpaulins and loaded with sacks of the chemical edged past trucks carrying metal wire and Buffalo brand rice. Eye on Beirut, Senegal Port Rushes to Truck Away Tons of Ammonium Nitrate 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z Looking at the grave, covered by an old blue tarpaulin to protect it from the heavy seasonal rain that floods their plot, his describes how his family is adjusting to life without her. 'It's broken me into a million pieces': six months on from Samoa's deadly measles outbreak 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z Workers used a tarpaulin and ropes to cover up the square base of a 111-year-old statue because it was recently spray-painted with obscenities, Macon County Commission Chairman Louis Maxwell said. Where have statues of Confederates, and other historical figures, been removed? 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z In the border town of Garoua-Boulaï in the Central African Republic, dozens of truck drivers jostled outside a tarpaulin tent waiting to get tested for the coronavirus. Coronavirus Accelerates Across Africa 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Now the statue is covered by a tarpaulin at a local army base. Pulling down statues of racists? Africa’s done it for years 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z The vote often takes place at “Base Camp,” a clearing in the woods that boasts three hammocks, a stone-lined fire pit and a tarpaulin shelter. With most campuses closed, Forest School enjoys its moment in the woods 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z In one section under brightly colored tarpaulins, vendors hawk local favorites such as smoked skipjack tuna, spiky golden pineapples and tropical jeruk manis oranges that turn green when ripened. He was a Hollywood darling for fighting dog meat trade. Butchers say he staged killings; he denies it 2020-05-24T04:00:00Z So her dad built her a makeshift pool in the deer shed using some planks, bales of hay and waterproof tarpaulin. Before the virus: Looking back on some last ‘normal’ moments 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z In her bedroom sits a rucksack packed with her T-shirts and tarpaulins, as if she is ready to return to war tomorrow. A One-Time Rebel of Colombia’s War Seeks Her Place in Peacetime 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z In Burkina Faso in western Africa, the Barsalogho camp houses about 75,000 people fleeing a jihadist insurgency, many in wood-framed tents covered with straw mats and white tarpaulin, pitched close together. 'Just one case': fears coronavirus may spread like wildfire in world's refugee camps 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z Extended families jam into tarpaulin shelters with mud floors. Unprepared for the Worst: World’s Most Vulnerable Brace for Virus 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Crammed into tents rigged out of blue tarpaulin, they had received clean water and food but little else. How Disaster Aid Ravaged an Island People 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Seeking shade in the 104 degree heat, they sat close together on plastic chairs under tarpaulins for more than three hours. Africa Braces for Coronavirus, but Slowly 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z The old pigeon shed where Stewart has lived since June last year is a patchwork of chicken wire, wood and plastic tarpaulins. 'Why I don’t want to live in a house' 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z From the outside, it looks like all the other structures in this part of the camp – a shack cobbled together from bits of wood and tarpaulins. The librarian of Moria – and other tales of hope from the notorious refugee camp 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Abaan Nyaaya, an Islamic healer who uses his grandfather’s remedies and refuses to resort to chains, has a queue of people at his clinic – a tarpaulin on posts. 'All we can offer is the chain': the scandal of Ghana's shackled sick 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Outside the health post, two garimpeiros are wrapping a dead body in a tarpaulin. Cacao not gold: ‘chocolate trees’ offer future to Amazon tribes 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z Among the collapsed building’s twisted remains and rubble, the dangling legs of a wedged corpse were revealed to the public after a tarpaulin sheet covering the body was blown away by wind. New Orleans Hard Rock hotel reveals dead worker's unrecovered body 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Boxes of wrapped tarpaulins, portable stoves and propane gas. Video Reveals Unused Earthquake Aid in Puerto Rico: ‘We Are Outraged’ 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Zekria says a few words, thanks the people who nailed the bits of wood together and attached the tarpaulins, and the book donors. The librarian of Moria – and other tales of hope from the notorious refugee camp 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Around 13,000 of those are living in a filthy unofficial camp of tarpaulin tents and makeshift huts made of pallets, in an olive grove surrounding the main site. 'Moria is a hell': new arrivals describe life in a Greek refugee camp 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z He bought the cabin - made from tarpaulins and planks - from a Vietnam war veteran. Man survives three weeks stranded in Alaska 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Just a few minutes upriver from the ruined camp, work has already resumed in an enormous mining pit, where tarpaulin and scaffolding made of logs and twine hold up a bank of earth. 'Like a bomb going off': why Brazil's largest reserve is facing destruction 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z A tarpaulin protecting it, ostensibly from red paint, was repeatedly torn down. Velvet Revolution: Prague's ghosts of communism 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z The two makeshift camps, made up of tarpaulin shelters and tents, were located under the flyovers of the Boulevard Périphérique, the ring road that runs around the capital. French police clear Paris ring road migrant camps 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The mother and son are pulling the tarpaulin over their heads to have a rest. Is it OK if someone wants to live for years on a bench? 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z He then fashioned a basic tent from scraps of tarpaulin, built in a dome around the woodstove. Man survives three weeks stranded in Alaska 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z By midday Wednesday, several police officers guarded a part of Eastern Avenue that was cordoned off with temporary fences covered with green tarpaulin. 39 Bodies Found in Truck in U.K.; Police Seek to Retrace Fatal Journey 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z A long convoy of military trucks carrying armored personnel carriers under tarpaulins entered the Turkish border town of Akcakale after dark. Turkish Forces Escalate Campaign in Syria Against Kurdish-Led Militia 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z He was eventually found hiding under a tarpaulin in a back garden with the barbs from the Taser still lodged in his back. Drug dealer jailed for stabbing police officer 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Leaky tents and a pink plastic tarpaulin offer scant shelter during daily tropical downpours. African migrants stuck in southern Mexico, their American dream on hold 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z The United Nations, which estimated that 76,000 people are believed to be homeless or in need of assistance in the Bahamas, is providing 1,000 tarpaulins to replace roofs stripped from homes. In Dorian’s wake, a shattered town haunted by its missing 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z The tarpaulin, supported by a large scaffold frame, was torn off three times after being fitted on Friday. Statue of Red Army general under wraps in Prague to stop vandals 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z He was eventually found hiding under a tarpaulin in a back garden with the barbs from the Taser deployment still lodged in his back. Drug dealer guilty of stabbing police officer 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z But there is also still plenty of evidence of the destructive powers of the hurricane - piles of broken masonry, tarpaulins tightly fastened over gaping holes, and palm trees ripped from their roots. ‘Why I don't want to own the land my business is built on’ 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z People were pitching tarpaulin tents, spreading their meager belongings on the sand. The Schoolteacher and the Genocide 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Swarm catchers are typically equipped with a breathable box, a sheet or tarpaulin, a bee brush and lemongrass oil to lure the bees into the box. Berlin's bumbling beekeepers leave swarms without homes 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z She has a strong, soulful voice but for now she runs a stall, with piles of mixed secondhand socks on a tarpaulin. 'I fear for the children': the families battling to beat the odds in Kibera – photo essay 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z On Cedeño beach, Ariana Tees, 70, is frying fish caught by her husband, Manuel, 67, in a makeshift tarpaulin kitchen just metres from the sea. ‘It won’t be long’: why a Honduran community will soon be under water 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z "I try to make myself and my kids comfortable, but it's not easy. And when it's windy, you hear a lot of noise from the tarpaulin," she says. ‘Why I don't want to own the land my business is built on’ 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z They strung up tarpaulins for walls, taking care to make sure fresh air could come in to the classrooms. The Schoolteacher and the Genocide 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z The show, set deep in the woods with nothing but a cooler, holdall and bundled-up tarpaulin as props, is delivered as a mesmerising, shocking, and at times terrifying confession to a smartphone on a tripod. Power play: reclaiming the story of Canada's missing and murdered 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Antonio Pinto’s makeshift home on the outskirts of Manaus is an open-air shack, one of dozens of similar dwellings of timber and tarpaulin scattered around the hills. The jungle metropolis: how sprawling Manaus is eating into the Amazon 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z The sheriff’s office says the body was wrapped in a tarpaulin, and items found on her body were consistent with those described by her family. Authorities say autopsy confirms identity of missing woman 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z His cafe is half-built, there is a tarpaulin for a roof, but he invites me inside for tea and fruits - cherries, apricots and watermelon. Inside Iran: What Iranians thinks of stand-off with US? 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z He stretched some tarpaulin between trees, put up his small nylon tent, and settled down. Why this man became a hermit at 20 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Japanese whalers – with their harpoons concealed beneath tarpaulin – left the port cities of Kushiro and Shimonoseki on Monday for the first commercial whale hunt in more than three decades. Japan resumes commercial whaling after 30 years -- despite low demand 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z On their decks were what appeared to be harpoon guns covered in tarpaulins. Japanese fleet prepares to resume commercial whaling 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z Its lyrics offered the stark image of a homeless person dying, unnoticed, under a tarpaulin by a river, the music was hushed and haunting, Cobain’s voice barely rising above a murmur. Nirvana's 20 greatest songs – ranked! 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Outside the camp, in an area known as the Jungle, migrants cluster in the trees in squalid collections of tents, shacks, and tarpaulins tied to branches. On a Greek Island that Welcomes Migrants, Fear, Frustration, and a sense of Abandonment Grow 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Their only protection from the elements was a plastic tarpaulin hung over them. Jamaican fishermen forcibly held and abused by US Coast Guard, lawsuit says 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z He said a tarpaulin that had been draped over the ship’s name was removed, having been put there for maintenance reasons only. Order to hide USS John McCain from Trump not 'unreasonable' – chief of staff 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z The Suns now live in tents of tarpaulin and plastic sheets by a floating bridge on the banks of the Yellow River, reduced to fishing from a small dinghy. China dreams on hold: heartland city feels chill of economic slowdown 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z When the grounds crew rolled up the tarpaulin, a layer of condensation had formed underneath and, with 40 mph wind, the field promptly froze like an ice rink. Bart Starr, 1960s Green Bay quarterback, dies at 85 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z In two days’ time, they were told through a loudspeaker, their shelters – mostly built of firewood, banana leaves and the odd tarpaulin sheet – would be demolished. 'Go and we die, stay and we starve': the Ethiopians facing a deadly dilemma 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z "The beams are there, the tarpaulin is arriving. The climbers, since it will be climbers who will do that, and the scaffolders, are ready," he said. Fire-damaged Notre-Dame faces a new threat: rain 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z To stop the device overheating or getting rained out, they have fashioned a cover out of cardboard and tarpaulin. 'We call it survival': Venezuelans improvise solutions as blackout continues 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z He said the body was partially contained in a tarpaulin or bag. Local Digest: Toddler in car stolen from Pr. George’s is found safe 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Lowcock urged addition funding, saying millions of Syrians are living under tents or tarpaulins or in unheated buildings, and there is a severe shortage of basics from blankets to baby milk and bandages. UN humanitarian chief urges aid delivery and new funding 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Danish media initially reported that a tarpaulin on a freight train hit the passenger train, which was going in the opposite direction, prompting it to brake violently. 6 killed, 16 injured in Danish bridge train accident 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Danish media reported that a tarpaulin on a freight train hit the passenger train, which was going in the opposite direction, prompting it to brake suddenly. The Latest: Danish Railways say 6 killed in train accident 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Danish media reported that a tarpaulin on a freight train hit a passenger train going in the opposite direction toward Copenhagen, prompting it to brake suddenly. Police: Several killed in Danish bridge train accident 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Danish media reported that a tarpaulin on a freight train hit a passenger train going in the opposite direction, prompting it to brake suddenly. Police: Several killed in Danish bridge train accident 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Danish media reported that tarpaulin on a freight train hit a passenger train going in the opposite direction, prompting it to brake suddenly. Several killed in rail incident in Denmark 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Photos from the scene show the freight train was carrying crates of beer, and the tarpaulin that covered the train was torn in pieces. 6 killed, 16 injured in Danish bridge train accident 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Photos taken by Sami Kavota, a candidate in local elections, showed tarpaulin burned and ripped off metal structures at the center. Rioters in Congo Storm an Ebola Center as Political Unrest Grows 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Denmark’s TV2 showed images of a freight train the tarpaulin that covered the train torn in pieces. Police: Several killed in Danish bridge train accident 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z “Some were flipped over or under rubble. We made a stretcher with tarpaulin, rice sacks and sticks.” Indonesia tsunami: volunteers rescue dozens of stranded turtles 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z After hours of travelling, the group arrived at a clearing filled with zinc-roofed buildings and tarpaulin tents, home to scores of militants and their families. The Women Rescued from Boko Haram Who Are Returning to Their Captors 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z I’m kidding, of course: take all your pretend money out of the stock market and buy water purification tablets, a backpack, a tarpaulin and a gun. Brownfinger May pulls off ‘le backwards’ in Brussels and heads for Pizza Hut stardom | Marina Hyde 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Police carried victims in tarpaulins and hauled them into a waiting truck, occasionally drawing loud wails from some of the onlookers. 29 drown in capsized boat in Uganda, toll expected to rise 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z Black tarpaulins once covered parts of a $12 billion nuclear submarine General Dynamics Corp. is building in Groton, Conn., blocking the view of workers who lacked security clearance to see the top-secret components underneath. Defense Firms Battle Long Wait for Security Clearances 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z For now, the displaced huddle in tarpaulin camps along roads, most with no proper latrines, amid piles of flyblown garbage. Health fears turn from injury to disease as Indonesia quake toll... 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z The camp’s population in September was so large that many were living under tarpaulins on a windswept spillover site beyond its fences. ‘Better to Drown’: A Greek Refugee Camp’s Epidemic of Misery 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Bodies lay partially covered by tarpaulins and a man carried a dead child through the wreckage. Indonesia tsunami toll tops 400 amid search for survivors 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z "We need tents, medicines, medical personnel, tarpaulins, blankets and more of other things," he said. Aftershocks rock Indonesian tsunami zone 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z At one bombsite in Gaza City, Abu Mohammed sat drinking bitter coffee under a plastic tarpaulin attached to a shipping container that is his temporary office. Gazans recycle bomb wreckage to beat the blockade 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z In Cagayan’s capital, Tuguegarao, where the typhoon hit land, Associated Press journalists saw a severely damaged public market, its roof ripped apart and wooden stalls and tarpaulin canopies in disarray. Typhoon lashes south China after killing 28 in Philippines 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z At daybreak in Cagayan’s capital, Tuguegarao, Associated Press journalists saw a severely damaged public market, its roof ripped apart and wooden stalls and tarpaulin canopies in disarray. Philippines checking typhoon’s damage, casualties amid rains 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z At daybreak in Cagayan’s capital, Tuguegarao, Associated Press journalists saw a severely damaged public market, its roof ripped apart and wooden stalls and tarpaulin canopies in disarray. Philippines checking typhoon’s damage, casualties amid rains 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z Some people live in mobile cabins, but rammed in-between them all are tents and tarpaulin sheets - homes for those who cannot obtain any official living space. ‘We keep the children ready to flee at any moment’ 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Lift up the tarpaulin cover of the trailer. The Battle of Amiens: how the Guardian reported 'rout and confusion' of German soldiers – August 1918 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Bits of wood, bamboo poles and tarpaulin sheets are spread across the area where many of the new arrivals are sent to build their shelters. A year on, Rohingya still fleeing Myanmar for crowded camps 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Basic tents made from wooden sticks and tarpaulin provide temporary shelter for those planning a crossing, and those arriving back from violent returns. Refugees crossing from Bosnia 'beaten and robbed by Croatian police' 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z On the morning I visited, a Slovak truck was parked with its tarpaulin sides open, carrying diesel generators bound for Iraq. Theresa May’s Impossible Choice 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z A pilot project by a team of engineers and urban planners covered a handful of tin-roofed shacks with white tarpaulin. In India, summer heat could soon be unbearable — literally 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z There was not a single tarpaulin or cot left in stock. FEMA Was Sorely Unprepared for Puerto Rico Hurricane, Report Says 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z The Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar, inhabited by 173 people, may seem unassuming, with homes made of wood and tarpaulin and surrounded by animal pens. As Israeli bulldozers circle, a tiny village takes center stage in Palestinian struggle 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z It’s a searing afternoon in Ecatepec, one of Mexico’s most violent and deprived cities, and thousands of followers have gathered under a vast white tarpaulin to hear their pathfinder rage against the machine. 'We're in the abyss': how despair in Mexico set 'Amlo' on verge of presidency 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z They sleep under a tarpaulin in a schoolyard with two other families. How a victorious Bashar al-Assad is changing Syria 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Daghash’s home is a tent made of blankets, tarpaulin and pieces of cardboard. As Yemen’s war nears a strategic city, it triggers a harsh exodus, shattering lives 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z The case involved a stolen motorcycle that was covered by a tarpaulin and parked on private property next to a house in Charlottesville, Virginia. U.S. Supreme Court rules against police over motorcycle search 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z As of Tuesday, tarpaulins covered boards bearing sponsor names to hide the Gazprom logo, and other displays were folded in half. Ukraine covers up logos of Champions League sponsor Gazprom 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Only the creative use of tarpaulins from UNHCR, the UN refugee agency – for roofing and carpeting to building makeshift shops and fencing homesteads – reminds you that this is a refugee settlement. ‘We just want to go home’: Inside the world’s largest refugee camp 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z On the outskirts of the neutral Kachin city of Myitkyina, are scattered myriad camps for the internally displaced – with shelter ranging from permanent woven bamboo huts to makeshift tarpaulin tents. ‘Slow genocide’: Myanmar’s invisible war on the Kachin Christian minority 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z Here they live in tarpaulin shelters and mud-brick huts on a patch of scrub where cows once grazed. Refugees need not be a burden, if they are allowed to work 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z She woke up in a shack of ragged tarpaulin on a dusty hillside in Bangladesh. How the families of 10 massacred Rohingya fled Myanmar 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z The tea leaves are gathered in tarpaulin bags, which are lighter than the traditional wicker baskets that were once used. The 150-year-old story of Sri Lankan tea-making 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Those taboos are only broken under the cool tarpaulins woven together to build Baraka, a shelter for women and girls. ‘We just want to go home’: Inside the world’s largest refugee camp 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z He points to a wooden structure cloaked in tarpaulin beyond the trees. Welcome to Powder Mountain – a utopian club for the millennial elite 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z It was later towed away from the hospital, covered by tarpaulin, on the back of an Army truck. Rudd leads Cobra meeting after Salisbury visit 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z On the roof of her apartment building, bits of UK Aid-branded tarpaulin stood between her and regular rainstorms. Virgin islanders still in shelter after Irma 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z The stunt follows another action by fellow street artist Sabo, who covered three LA billboards with tarpaulins this week that accused the film industry of covering up child abuse. Weinstein statue appears ahead of Oscars 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z The artist - known as Sabo - covered three Los Angeles billboards with red tarpaulins accusing the entertainment industry of covering up child abuse. The real-life Three Billboards stunts 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z A little girl dressed in pink, maybe three years old, is smiling through a rip in a tarpaulin. 'Lives will be lost': Bangladesh rains promise further misery for Rohingya 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Australia has promised tarpaulins, water purification tablets, and water containers, and despatched a military C-130 transport plane to assist with aerial surveillance. Death toll rises to 31 in PNG quake as weather and damage hamper... 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z The women moved Mr Pajich's body to a specially prepared room with a white-tiled floor that was lined with blue tarpaulins. Women 'who killed for pleasure' jailed in Australia 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z The footage shows half-buried tarpaulin bags in a forest clearing, with a decaying leg visibly protruding from one of the bags. Myanmar government 'bulldozing Rohingya mass grave to hide evidence' 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z They erected tarpaulin shelters to shield themselves from heavy rain. Special Report: How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed in a remo 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z As a result, thousands of homes were built out of nothing more than tarpaulin and bamboo. 'Lives will be lost': Bangladesh rains promise further misery for Rohingya 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Australia has promised tarpaulins, water purification tablets, and water containers, and despatched a military C-130 transport plane to assist with aerial surveillance. Death toll rises to 31 in PNG quake as weather and damage hamper... 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Under shelters built from branches and tarpaulins, traders in turbans with leathery faces hawk almost everything imaginable. Why UN forces are finding it hard to bring peace to Mali 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Los Angeles, rich beyond dreams, is a refugee camp, its riverbeds and alleys draped in blue tarpaulin. Essential California: L.A. homeless crisis grows. How do we fix it? 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z They erected tarpaulin shelters to shield themselves from heavy rain. Special Report: How Myanmar forces burned, looted and killed in a remo 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z He said they did have a blanket or tarpaulin which they may have been able to use to get some relief from the sun. Missing Kiribati ferry: seven passengers found in lifeboat 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z They got back into the truck, looking for tarpaulins. Trapped in Yemen: Dave Eggers on one man’s astonishing fight to get home to America 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z Two men cloaked in tarpaulin and tied to one another by a thick rope are engulfed in a swarm of hornets. Where to find the world's tastiest insects 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z It runs especially deep in California which is the world’s sixth biggest economy yet dotted by ragged tarpaulin encampments from Silicon Valley to Venice Beach to San Diego. 'It was like Niagara Falls': how California's rich and poor united against a tide of mud 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z He lifts a tarpaulin flap to show me the frames he built into the wood himself. How woman crafts honey from the hives of local bees 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Photos taken of the Sepulveda encampment in September and shared with The Times showed a cluster of green tarpaulins suspended in a canyon and partially hidden by treetops and brush. L.A. fire officials will track homeless encampments in high-risk fire zones 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Two weeks after he arrived in Bangladesh, Mr. Hossein opened a temporary mosque in Balukhali by binding stalks of bamboo with a piece of tarpaulin. ‘Massive Mental Health Crisis’ Feared for Rohingya Children 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z Two weeks after he arrived in Bangladesh, Hossein opened a temporary mosque in Balukhali by binding stalks of bamboo with a piece of tarpaulin. Rohingya children fleeing Myanmar facing larger-than-life horror 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z Most of its occupants live in flimsy tents whose only preparation for winter has involved using wooden pallets to elevate tarpaulins above the mud. 'Welcome to prison': winter hits in one of Greece's worst refugee camps 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Photos taken of the Sepulveda encampment in September and shared with The Times showed a cluster of green and olive tarpaulins stretched across a canyon, partially hidden by treetops and brush. Wealthy Bel-Air wrestles with homeless crisis after encampment fire burns homes – LA Times 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z While all are now housed in self-built homes – with the materials provided by the government – two months ago many were living in makeshift tarpaulin tents that would reach unbearable temperatures. 'There's nothing for us': Farc rebels search for purpose a year after historic deal 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Two other tarpaulins were donated by friends and Paonessa and her sister, who both live in the house with their grandmother, installed all three after watching a tutorial on YouTube. Puerto Ricans face rain and floods in wrecked homes still without roofs 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Close to one million Rohingya are now living in mud huts, tents and under sheets of tarpaulin in the refugee camps outside the Bangladeshi port town of Cox’s Bazar. 'I miss them so much': Myanmar's lost Rohingya children plead for their parents 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z ON A vast building site on the southern coast of South Korea near its industrial heartland, the foundations of the country’s newest nuclear-power project are swaddled in protective tarpaulins. In South Korea, two reactors are saved from the axe 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z Today, the mosaic is covered with tarpaulin due to its ideological inappropriateness. Missing murals: the lost Soviet art of the Stans 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Loud voices floated under the torn blue tarpaulin keeping the rain out of the West Point Intellectual Forum, a cafe in Liberia’s biggest slum. After stability under Sirleaf, Liberians long for more from next leader 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z Meanwhile in San Juan, where the territory’s government is based, tarpaulins are being sold at inflated rates. Puerto Ricans face rain and floods in wrecked homes still without roofs 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Its title is a nod to the dominant theme: the ocean which surrounds the base but which the detainees are prevented from seeing by tarpaulin strung from the prison fences. 'I can get my soul out of prison': the art made by Guantánamo detainees 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z One problem, military officials said, was that the helium-filled blimp’s tarpaulin exterior took a beating in Thailand’s tropical climate. Thailand’s bad blimp buy haunts military 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z All their possessions have come from the UN: a collection of broken plastic buckets and tin pots, a couple of mats, two torn mosquito nets, some tarpaulins and a shovel. Queuing all day for a three-minute call: reuniting families torn apart by Boko Haram | Ruth Maclean 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Officials there made urgent appeals for fresh water, food and tarpaulins. Puerto Rico Faces Mountain of Obstacles on the Road to Recovery 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z The roof of Gigi Paonessa’s house was decapitated by Maria and she was only able to get a tarpaulin a week later after her sister paid $125 for one from a hardware store. Puerto Ricans face rain and floods in wrecked homes still without roofs 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z In 2014, the tarpaulins were removed for four days because of a hurricane, inspiring a flood of maritime art. 'I can get my soul out of prison': the art made by Guantánamo detainees 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Search operations were slowed as workers spread tarpaulins over the rescue site. In pictures: Mexico quake school rescue 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Bangladesh stopped designating new refugees in the early 1990s, forcing hundreds of thousands to fend for themselves by cobbling together bits of tarpaulin and bamboo to build makeshift homes. Bangladesh Plans to Build Huge Refugee Camp for Rohingya 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z The black tarpaulin cover has since been removed, according to US media. US protesters cover Jefferson statue 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z On Saturday, thousands of Rohingya were milling on the road near the camp of Kutapalong, carrying bamboo and tarpaulin to build shacks. Rohingya insurgents declare temporary ceasefire amid humanitarian crisis 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z Other short-term priorities are cleaning up debris, distributing tarpaulins to cover damaged roofs, and supplying food and water to those in need. After Irma, calls for help from the Caribbean: 'The island is debris, that's all it is' 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Aid is arriving in dribs and drabs—food, water purifiers, tarpaulins—but not nearly enough. A state-led massacre triggers an exodus of Rohingyas from Myanmar 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Several thousand Rohingya have chopped down the trees, levelled out the beige mud and erected tents using sliced bamboo frames and black tarpaulin bought in the market. Massacre at Tula Toli: Rohingya villagers recall horror of Myanmar army attack 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Rusting machetes, arranged in expectation of the sacrificial cow slaughter for Eid al-Adha, are propped against bamboo sticks supporting a tarpaulin. Thousands of Rohingya flee Myanmar amid tales of ethnic cleansing 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z On Saturday, thousands of Rohingya were milling on the road near the camp of Kutapalong, carrying bamboo and tarpaulin to build shacks. Rohingya insurgents declare temporary ceasefire amid humanitarian crisis 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z The Kharves were huddled together under plastic tarpaulin sheets, strengthened with sticks of bamboo, as makeshift protection from the monsoon rain. 'Not a single thing was dry': Mumbai's residents count the cost of floods 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Many put down tarpaulins and squatted on the streets outside the court. Hundreds arrested after riots in northern India leave 32 dead 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z He told the G1 news portal that a tarpaulin sheltering passengers from a heavy downpour made it escape difficult. 10 dead, Dozens Missing After Boat Sinks on Brazil River 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z She advises gazing up while lying on a tarpaulin and sleeping bag in order to get the widest view of the night sky. Perseid meteor shower: everything you need to know to see it 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z ONE sunny Wednesday in Amapala, off the coast of Honduras, 33 working-age men settled themselves on rows of chairs on the main street under a tarpaulin to watch a football game. Honduras experiments with charter cities 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z It stank of something rotten, and the air was so humid that we had to line the floor with a black tarpaulin just to keep the moisture off of us as we slept. 'I slept on the floor in a flat near Harrods': stories of modern slavery 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z A housing crisis is making homes unaffordable for the poor and middle class, uprooting communities and condemning families to sleep in vehicles, shelters and under tarpaulin. Hipster-bashing in California: angry residents fight back against gentrification 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z With his four children and his wife, he sleeps under a piece of black tarpaulin in the shelter's yard. Crisis-hit Venezuelans leave for Brazil in search of new life - BBC News 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z There are signs of construction on the roof of the pub’s extension – plywood walls, uPVC windows and tarpaulin. 'Never drink in a flat-roofed pub': how the old joke became a reality 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Using empty wooden pallets, pieces of tarpaulin and other scraps found laying around, the resourceful youngsters have built a kids’ community of forts, foundations and walkways. Glynn Haven kids create shanty town in lieu of park 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z Anyeji and the children live in a makeshift tarpaulin structure on a small plot of land, side by side with other refugees. Among South Sudan’s refugees, thousands of stranded children 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Even today, many rebels are still living in improvised tents, sleeping under mosquito nets and tarpaulin. Colombia peace process weathers the storm as Farc hands in weapons 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Gathered under tarpaulins baking in the sun, the women counsel one another and learn skills such as how to build a kitchen stove from clay. South Sudan refugees recall horrific sexual assaults 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z We walked through its makeshift replacement, a sea of tarpaulin and boxes. Taliban territory: Life in Afghanistan under the militants - BBC News 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Witnesses said the helicopter lost control when a tarpaulin got entangled in its rotors as it tried to land on the luxury boat. Bergen helicopter crash: Three Britons injured - BBC News 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z His base is a small coffee shop in one of the crowded suburbs of southern Beirut, a dilapidated building covered by a plastic tarpaulin. Meeting an organ trafficker who preys on Syrian refugees - BBC News 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z She shows me into her lounge, UN tarpaulins pinned up to keep the weather out. 'Everything we built for 20 years, gone in a blink' – life in the ruins of Aleppo 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Atmeh sent a picture of a dwelling he said belonged to the "richest person in the camp" - four muddy brick walls with two metal doors and tarpaulins stretched over as a roof. Trapped by war and a Turkish wall, Syrians dig in for long exile 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z The car was brought back to the pits shrouded in a tarpaulin on the back of a flatbed truck. Motor racing: Mercedes pile on the laps, McLaren and Red Bull sidelined 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z “So I am here,” said Karim, with a wan smile, indicating a muddy yard of tents and tarpaulin which passes for a migrant shelter. The global waiting room: displaced migrants headed to US in limbo in Tijuana 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Icicles drip from a torn tarpaulin that serves as a bedroom roof. Amid Kabul winter, Afghan war refugees shiver in frigid informal settlements 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z One night, she passed by a dirty, moving tarpaulin on the side of the street. The former sex worker who set up a retirement home - BBC News 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z When the tarpaulin was removed it left moisture on the field, which flash-froze in the extreme cold, leaving an icy playing surface that worsened as the afternoon wore on. NFL playoffs | Chiefs vs. Steelers: How they match up 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Surveillance footage showed a man using tarpaulin to alter the 45-ft. letters between midnight and 2 a.m. LA Police Arrest Man Who Changed Hollywood Sign to Hollyweed 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Sunday showed a “lone individual” climbing the mountain, scaling the sign’s ladders and hanging tarpaulins over the O’s to change them to E’s, said Sgt. Hollywood sign could get extra security after New Year's Day 'Hollyweed' prank 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z Security footage taken around midnight Saturday showed a “lone individual” climbing up Mount Lee, scaling the sign using the built-in ladders and hanging tarpaulins over the sign’s O’s to change them to E's, said Sgt. The Hollywood sign gets a temporary makeover: 'Hollyweed' 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z One block of flats is being entirely renovated, another is held up by wooden support columns, a third is covered with tarpaulin to prevent leaks. What Disney’s city of the future, built to look like the past, says about the present 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z With the help of aid agencies, within 36 hours each family is allocated a 30m square patch of land and a tarpaulin to set up a shelter and start planting crops. South Sudan refugee crisis: The wooden bridge between death and safety - BBC News 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z The frame is made of wood, while the walls are a patchwork of corrugated iron, slats of thin plywood and tarpaulin stamped with the UN refugee agency logo. Remembrance of tastes past: Syria’s disappearing food culture | Wendell Steavenson 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Small shacks of wood, corrugated iron and scraps of tarpaulin cling to the sand dunes on the outskirts of Somalia's southern port city of Kismayo. Can Kenya close Dadaab, the world's biggest refugee camp? - BBC News 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Two carriages of the tram which derailed in Croydon, south London, were covered with tarpaulin and lifted on to a low loader by a giant crane. Croydon tram crash: Vehicle set to be removed from site - BBC News 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z The abandoned school is an unheated structure, made from chipboard and tarpaulin by volunteers. Calais: France rebukes Britain over abandoned refugee children 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z They’ve scaled an ageing red truck covered in rope and a tarpaulin, and can see cattle tied up inside. On patrol with the Hindu vigilantes who would kill to protect India's cows 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z His barber shop is really a temporary structure made of tarpaulins, but he's lucky because there are few opportunities to earn money. Displaced Iraqis watch Mosul offensive with longing and fear 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z His barber shop is really a temporary structure made of tarpaulins, but he’s lucky because there are few opportunities to earn money. Displaced Iraqis watch Mosul offensive with longing and fear 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z A cargo flight of U.S. government relief supplies, the fifth so far, was scheduled to arrive Tuesday and was to include hygiene items, cooking kits and tarpaulins for homes that lost their roofs. A painfully slow hurricane relief effort in Haiti gains speed 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z This past weekend, 230 rebels sat in the rain under a large tarpaulin and listened as a commander outlined details of the 297-page accord. FARC Says It Still Wants Peace, Despite Colombian Voters’ Rejection of Accord 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Some have slung tarpaulins next to walls in an attempt to shield themselves from the sun. Battle for Islamic State stronghold could trigger a new crisis: A million displaced Iraqis 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z In a description consistent with other accounts of water dousing, he reported being placed within a tarpaulin full of cold water that zipped closed at the top with minimal space for air. Tunisian men detail CIA black site torture involving electric chair and more 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Looking further around Bagan, at the tarpaulin and scaffolding, it's clear that most of the damage is to the newer construction. Bagan earthquake: Is there a silver lining for Myanmar? - BBC News 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Dr. Dutton asked as she took a break to eat lunch on a tarpaulin spread under the trees. Flooding of Coast, Caused by Global Warming, Has Already Begun 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z They live in crowded structures of tarpaulin that bake like furnaces in the sun. Hunger grips thousands of new South Sudan refugees in Uganda 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Israel’s military authority in the West Bank wants to demolish the Palestinian community, contending that the ramshackle structures made of old tires and weathered tarpaulins were built without permits and must come down. A ramshackle village at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z “They’ve banged against our door and windows. They’ve tipped over parked motorcycles, pulled down tarpaulins and knocked over our washing machine.” Thai farmers launch (bee) sting operation to stop elephants 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z "They've banged against our door and windows. They've tipped over parked motorcycles, pulled down tarpaulins and knocked over our washing machine." Thai farmers launch (bee) sting operation to stop elephants 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z The camp is an “in-between” place to him; the rooms are bare concrete, divided by tarpaulin, with very few or no belongings. Life as a Syrian Refugee in Germany 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Scott Richards promoted a charity drive to buy blankets and tarpaulins for refugees in Afghanistan. Ten things you can't do in Dubai - BBC News 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Scott Richards, who holds both British and Australian citizenship, promoted a charity drive to buy blankets and tarpaulins for refugees in Afghanistan. UK and Australian citizen Scott Richardson held in Dubai - BBC News 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z The Chuchepati camp is dotted with scores of shacks built with bamboo poles and white polythene and tarpaulin sheets. Nepal's sense of despair - BBC News 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, civilians displaced in baking heat received tarpaulins too small to cover an adult and food kits in which lentils had been replaced with salt. Suspecting fraud, U.S. suspends some Syrian aid programs 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z They sat in their camping chairs, huddled beneath tarpaulin. Glastonbury 2016: 'Let’s open the biggest party on the planet!' 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Both players fell to the ground, and Gordon landed against the tarpaulin. Ventura steps up, but Royals fall short, 3-2 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z Defendants sit on plastic stools before the judges, while clerks hammer away on typewriters out on the street beneath makeshift tarpaulin canopies. Story of cities #47: Myanmar rising – how democracy is changing Yangon's skyline 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Her sister-in-law, Jaya, who was sitting with her on the tarpaulin, agreed that she had been wrong. An Indian teen was raped by her father. Village elders had her whipped. 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Families are allocated a small space in the dusty wasteland, where rickety tented homes are made from wooden posts and tarpaulin sheets. Armed guards at India's dams as drought grips country 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z The next few days brought a slow transition from eating and sleeping under tarpaulin outside to moving back to the shelter of the ground floor of their homes. 'I don’t feel safe but life must go on': one year on from the Nepal earthquake 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z These Syrians live in tents made of tarpaulin sheets stretched over branches and twigs. 'My soul is in Damascus': portraits of life on the refugee trail 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Shielded from the autumn rains under tarpaulins, a substantial crowd, mostly of young Kenyans but with several European and American expats, dances. An emerging drug market 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z She was curled up on a tarpaulin outside the place where she now lives with her brother and his family — a hut of fabric pieces stretched over bamboo poles and secured by rocks. An Indian teen was raped by her father. Village elders had her whipped. 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z The secret is in the propulsion system, the only part of the boat entirely sheathed in tarpaulin to keep it from prying eyes. Take your partners 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Photograph: Mike Newton Most of the refugees were packed on to the decks in a makeshift village under tarpaulins strung over the hatch covers. Vietnamese boat people: living to tell the tale 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z "It took four of us to lift it on a piece of tarpaulin, just one at each corner," one of the students, Ken Dolan, told me when I interviewed him in 2005. The man who blew up Nelson - BBC News 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z There is gravel underfoot, the tarpaulin roof flaps in the winter wind and frost dampens the cardboard walls. Juárez: factory workers are protesting for their rights with an ‘Occupy-style’ sit-in 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z When the music did begin, the sheet was pulled back and the models appeared and stood near what looked like makeshift buildings found in refugee camps, meshed together with tarpaulin and plastic. Kanye West drops new album The Life of Pablo at elaborate, 'ramshackle' event 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Pacing around her home's makeshift kitchen, the cawing and chirping of birds audible through the smoke-stained tarpaulin roof, Sweet is forlorn as she talks about her family's future. Liberia's Ebola widows learn to become the new breadwinners 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Made of timber and tarpaulin, these are not extravagant dwellings, but in a place of hardship and scant resources, no-one wants to lose them. 'Jungle' migrants prepare to move - 100 metres away - BBC News 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z The homeless desperately need pallets to raise their tents off the sidewalks, he wrote, as well as heavy-duty tarpaulins, toilets, trash collection, and portable showers. Homeless in Los Angeles brace for El Nino rainstorms 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z In the spring, after repeated reports from neighbors about continuing construction, city inspectors found that parts of the project had been hidden with tarpaulins, plants and taped-over doors. A Mansion, a Shell Company and Resentment in Bel Air 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Protesters surrounded the precinct compound, and held up tarpaulins to protect themselves from chemical irritant sprays being used by police. Police and protesters clash during Jamar Clark protests as NAACP plans response 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z A right foot protrudes outward from a gap in the boxes, beneath a tarpaulin sheet that doubles as a curtain. See How Jeff Wall Still Matters in Photography 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z JR printed his subjects’ faces on to vinyl-covered tarpaulins, and fixed these to the roofs of local shacks. US ad agency removes world-famous Nairobi artwork and auctions it 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Outside the smoke-filled tarpaulin hut where he lives with his parents, aunt and six siblings, 45,000 people are sheltering under the protection of UN peacekeepers. South Sudan: 'a level of human suffering I have never seen anywhere else' 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Bricks and concrete lumps disgorged by the tremors weigh down the corrugated metal roofs of shacks and brightly coloured tarpaulins still dot the terraces of acid-green rice plants that climb the steep hills. Nepal earthquakes leave bitter legacy as children become quarry for traffickers | Sam Jones 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Then yet again – for crying out loud! – we have more sightscreen-related delays as white tarpaulins are dragged over advertising hoardings. Pakistan v England: first Test, day one – as it happened 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z At the scene of the attack the bodies of those involved in the killings were still visible on the ground next to the bus covered in a white tarpaulin. Israelis killed in Jerusalem bus stabbing and car ramming 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z After his initial installation six years ago, JR formed a foundation, which continues to add new tarpaulins to uncovered houses in Kibera. US ad agency removes world-famous Nairobi artwork and auctions it 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z In the immediate aftermath of the incident, the body of the attacker still lay on the ground under a white tarpaulin as ambulances ferried the wounded from the scene. Israel-Palestine unrest: three Israelis killed in Jerusalem attacks – as it happened 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Block after block, the homeless and their scant belongings - tarpaulins, tents and trolleys - are scattered on the concrete in the baking sun. Los Angeles homelessness emergency: 'A city of shanties' - BBC News 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Then yet again – for crying out loud! – we have more sightscreen-related delays as white tarpaulins are dragged over advertising hoardings. Pakistan v England: first Test, day one – as it happened 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Equipment was piled up outside the empty hospitality under a tarpaulin. Lotus locked out of hospitality, freight delayed 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Just steps away, two half-brothers in their mid-forties with grubby faces and missing teeth are sitting on a camouflage tarpaulin, sharing some weed. 'No app for that': tech-rich San Francisco's intractable homelessness 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z In the immediate aftermath of the incident, the body of the attacker still lay on the ground under a white tarpaulin as ambulances ferried the wounded from the scene. Israel-Palestine unrest: three Israelis killed in Jerusalem attacks – as it happened 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Gold traders' agents sit under tarpaulins, waiting for miners to bring shiny little balls of metal that are burned to remove mercury, which attracts the gold but does not ignite. Gold fever brings tens of thousands to a Deadwood in Uganda 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z When Hurricane Katrina tore into the Gulf Coast states ten years ago, leadership was in as short supply as tarpaulins. What Hurricane Katrina Can Teach Us About Leadership 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z Marban was speaking in front of a former customs hall where the lorry was parked on a tarpaulin to catch fluids, with investigators in protective suits gathering forensic evidence. Refugee children, close to death, found in van in Austria 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z He was speaking in front of a former customs hall where the truck was standing on tarpaulin to gather fluids, with investigators clad in protective suits gathering forensic evidence. Three refugee children found critically ill in Austria 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z The backyard is strewn with old tires, unhinged doors and tarpaulins. Unraveling of Gunman Began Long Before Killing a Guard and Himself in Manhattan 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z Next to the Hyatt Regency Kathmandu, a tarpaulin tented camp sheltered hundreds of displaced persons. Returning to a Rebuilding Nepal 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z In their desperate attempts to reach Calais, migrants are forcing truck doors and cutting through tarpaulins. Businesses Worry Over Financial Impact of Calais Crisis 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z He refuses to build a more permanent shelter, sleeping under a black plastic tarpaulin propped up by wooden sticks. Migrants Wait With Hope, Resignation at Camp Called 'The Jungle' 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z Rahar's house was badly damaged in the earthquake, and is now held together with corrugated iron sheeting and tarpaulin. Nepal earthquakes: What I saved from the rubble - BBC News 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z With nowhere else to go, they landed in their orchards and pastureland, improvising homes out of tarpaulin tents and concrete. How a Palestinian Hamlet of 340 Drew Global Attention 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z This day, there are just 51 Afghanis and a single Pakistani here, sleeping off their exhaustion under the shade of a tarpaulin. Greek island refugee crisis: local people and tourists rally round migrants 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z “We are still living in the field under the tarpaulins, ” she said. Schools reopen in earthquake-devastated Nepal 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z |
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