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Salmond family pay tribute to 'devoted and loving' man
The family of the former first minister vow to continue his work for Scottish independence.Top stories - BBC News - October 14 -
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 - 4 days ago -
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Russia says it captured a southern Ukraine village in a push before winter comes
Russia says it has captured the village of Levadne in southern Ukraine as it probes for weaknesses along the war’s roughly 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front line before winter arrivesWorld - ABC News - October 14 -
Israel widens Lebanon campaign with air strike on northern village
Attack on Christian-majority area follows targeting of Israeli army base by HizbollahBusiness - Financial Times - October 14 -
Israel Destroys Nearly All of a Lebanese Village, Photos and Videos Show
About two dozen buildings were demolished in the village, which The Times identified as Mhaibib, just over a mile from Israel’s northern border.World - The New York Times - October 18 -
Welsh village becomes UK area where everyone has ultrafast broadband
Before the changes, one resident said it was quicker to send a postcard than message.Top stories - BBC News - October 19 -
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India’s start-ups look to villages to drive next leg of growth
Indian start-ups are shifting their focus to rural consumers, hoping to tap into a new wave of growth.Top stories - BBC News - October 21 -
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Villagers are wary of plans to dam a river to ensure Panama Canal's water supply
The Panama Canal Authority is reaching out to communities that could be impacted if the Indio River is dammed to make a new reservoir ensuring the water supply needed to operate the Panama CanalWorld - ABC News - October 23 -
‘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 -
'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 -
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 - 6 days ago -
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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 - 9 hours ago -
Samoan coast where King Charles will visit worries about the future after ship damaged reef
People who live in villages along the Samoan coastline where a New Zealand navy ship ran aground, caught fire and sank this month are worried about their livelihoods and the future of tourism and ...World - ABC News - October 22 -
Samoan coast where King Charles will visit worries about the future after ship damaged reef
People who live in villages along the Samoan coastline where a New Zealand navy ship ran aground, caught fire and sank this month are worried about their livelihoods and the future of tourism and ...Entertainment - ABC News - October 22 -
Guardians of the gibbons: inside the Indian village where humans and hoolocks live side by side
Villagers in Barekuri, Assam, have lived closely with endangered hoolock gibbons for generations. A new Guardian documentary shows their bond – and the fight to protect them. On a misty winter ...World - The Guardian - October 23 -
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 - 4 days ago -
‘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 - 3 days ago -
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 - 6 hours ago
