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'Outnumbered by puppets': Depopulated village in Japan crafts dolls for sense of life
With most of the population gone, residents of one village in Japan have come up with a novel plan to make it less lonely — replacing people with puppets.Top stories - NBC News - October 27 -
Navy apologies for destroying Alaska Native village in 1882
The U.S. Navy issued an apology Saturday for destroying an Alaska Native village nearly 150 years ago. The 1882 attack in Angoon killed six children and caused such dire food shortages that ...Top stories - CBS News - October 26 -
Village homes for commuters near a station – in pictures
From a renovated farmhouse to a period home, all have easy access to rail links to towns and cities Continue reading...World - The Guardian - November 1 -
Center Parcs plans first Scottish holiday village
The project, near Hawick, promises an investment of £350m and could create 1,200 jobs.Top stories - BBC News - November 5 -
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A French village honors a U.S. soldier killed in WWII
Gerri Eisenhauer's father, Private William Walters, died in World War II just a few months before she was born – killed in action in France, according to a brief telegram. Eisenhauer believed she ...Top stories - CBS News - November 10 -
How a quiet village turned into the Land of Oz for Wicked
It was exciting times for residents as Munchkinland emerged from a field in their quiet community.Top stories - BBC News - 19 hours ago -
Japan’s unfortunate political limbo
Prime minister Shigeru Ishiba’s decision to call a snap election backfiredWorld - Financial Times - October 30 -
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‘Pole of Cold’: life in the coldest inhabited village on Earth – photo essay
The Siberian republic of Sakha in the Russian far east is one the coldest inhabited regions in the world. The photojournalist Natalya Saprunova spent almost two months documenting the daily lives ...World - The Guardian - October 25 -
Navy issues apology for destroying Alaska Native village in 1882
The attack on Angoon was one of a series of conflicts between the American military and Alaska Natives in the years after the U.S. bought the territory from Russia in 1867.Top stories - CBS News - October 26 -
In England’s Most Haunted Village, Halloween Means Screams and Skeptics
Pluckley is said to count at least 12 spirits among its 1,000 residents. Come October, ghost hunters arrive in droves to a place where even nonbelievers concede they’ve had eerie encounters.Top stories - The New York Times - October 28 -
Solar power to the people: how the sun is bringing light – and TV – to Amazon villages
Their fuel resources have long been plundered by others, while national grids have failed to connect them. Now, solar panels could give more than electricity to Indigenous people. At dusk, Piyulaga ...World - The Guardian - October 29 -
Village in India where Harris is ‘daughter of the land’ on edge as US election looms
Billboards with Harris’s face wishing her good luck erected across sleepy village and daily prayers held at local temple. Kamala Harris may never have visited Thulasendrapuram, a sleepy village ...World - The Guardian - October 31 -
As data center industry booms, an English village becomes a battleground
The English village of Abbots Langley has become a flashpoint in a British battle over data centersTech - ABC News - November 2 -
Crashing waves in a hilltop village, a night of terror from Spain's floods
Irene Cuevas says she has the roar of the waves produced by a flash flood burned into her memoryWorld - ABC News - November 3 -
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Eye Opener: Rescue crews evacuate Indonesian villagers after volcano erupts
Rescue crews in Indonesia are scrambling to evacuate villagers after a volcano erupted multiple times, sending massive ash clouds into the sky. Meanwhile, a bombing at a Pakistan train station has ...Top stories - CBS News - November 9 -
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Swiss villagers pack up for evacuation over fears of another rockslide
Families in a tiny Swiss village are packing up after authorities issued an evacuation order with a weekend deadline because of the threat of a possible rockslideWorld - ABC News - November 13 -
Israel demolishes village at the heart of Bedouin minority's struggle over land
Israeli authorities have completed the demolition of a village at the heart of a yearslong struggle by the members of its Arab Bedouin minority against relocation plansWorld - ABC News - November 14 -
‘No Use for Hatred’: A Village Seeks to Move On From a U.S. Massacre
The hamlet of My Lai is infamous for American war crimes, but now it holds lessons in resilience and how to let go of anger.Top stories - The New York Times - 6 days ago -
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FirstFT: Japan plunges into political chaos
Also in today’s newsletter, oil price falls and Franklin Templeton hit by record outflowsWorld - Financial Times - October 28 -
Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party Is Faltering
The Liberal Democrats, long the guiding force for Japan, are in disarray just when their country needs them the most.Top stories - The New York Times - October 29 -
Japan is having a moment but will it survive Trump?
Some believe the country’s economy could benefit from the result of the US electionWorld - Financial Times - November 8 -
Japan on cusp of energy storage boom
Demand for residential batteries set to surgeWorld - Financial Times - November 11 -
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U.S. Navy apologizes 142 years after shelling and burning an Alaska Native village to oblivion
Shells fell on the Alaska Native village as winter approached, and then sailors landed and burned what was left of homes, food caches and canoes.Top stories - NBC News - October 28 -
Death toll from Israeli strikes on villages in northeast Lebanon climbs to 45, local authorities say
Death toll from Israeli strikes on villages in northeast Lebanon climbs to 45, local authorities sayWorld - ABC News - November 1 -
A tiny village in India where Kamala Harris has ancestral roots is praying for her victory
As millions of Americans gear up to cast ballots in U.S. elections, Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, has people rooting for her from thousands of miles away in a tiny south ...World - ABC News - November 5 -
‘It’s like living in a prison’: inside the besieged Palestinian village isolated from the rest of the West Bank
Since the 7 October attack, and the ensuing war in Gaza, restrictions in Beit Iksa have become even more suffocating. In January this year, four-year-old Ruqayya Jahalin, her mother and her five ...World - The Guardian - November 6 -
Swiss villagers told to get ready to evacuate after Alpine rockslide alert -- again
Authorities in eastern Switzerland have ordered residents of a tiny village to prepare to evacuateWorld - ABC News - November 9 -
Storm-weary Philippines forcibly evacuates thousands as another typhoon hits
A new typhoon has made landfall in the northeastern Philippines, which has been battered by earlier stormsWorld - ABC News - November 10 -
Italian village offers 1-euro homes to Americans wanting to relocate after election
A small rural village in Italy is offering homes for as little as $1.06 after the 2024 presidential election. “Are you worned out by global politics? Looking to embrace a more balanced lifestyle ...Politics - The Hill - 4 days ago -
‘It’s not drought - it’s looting’: the Spanish villages where people are forced to buy back their own drinking water
Spain is increasingly either parched or flooded – and one group is profiting from these extremes: the water-grabbing multinational companies forcing angry citizens to pay for it in bottles. After ...World - The Guardian - 14 hours ago
