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The Virtual Villages Helping Digital Nomads Find Real-World Friends
Itinerant online workers needn’t suffer a single day of lonesomeness with these digital-first friend-finders.Tech - Wired - Yesterday -
Tennis event canceled after players and coach are victims of a 'virtual' kidnapping in Mexico
The Mexican Tennis Federation has canceled a junior tournament in the central state of Guanajuato after 10 players, all underage, and a coach, were victims of a “virtual” kidnappingSports - ABC News - October 30 -
How the virtual network "Win With Black Women" is impacting the 2024 presidential race
Jotaka Eaddy is the woman behind the virtual network "Win With Black Women," which started meeting every Sunday during the pandemic via Zoom. Their goal is to support and advance the policy agenda ...Top stories - CBS News - October 31 -
European agency says 2024 is "virtually certain" to be warmest year on record
Climate scientists working at the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service have announced that 2024 is "virtually certain" to be the warmest year on record.Top stories - CBS News - November 6 -
This year ‘virtually certain’ to be hottest on record, finds EU space programme
Copernicus Climate Change Service says 2024 marks ‘a new milestone’ and should raise ambitions at Cop29 summit. It is “virtually certain” that 2024 will be the hottest year on record, the European ...World - The Guardian - November 7 -
Gianni Infantino to dodge spotlight with 2026 World Cup draw held virtually
Controversy remains over Saudi Arabia’s 2034 bid The 54-year-old was re-elected Fifa president last year Gianni Infantino will avoid any scrutiny of the controversial decision to give the 2034 ...World - The Guardian - November 13 -
The Game Awards Lets You Vote Inside Fortnite With A Virtual Geoff Keighley
The Game Awards, coming up this December 12, will honor 2024's best games, and Fortnite players will be able to vote on one category from within the game.. Studio 568 created a dedicated Fortnite ...Tech - GameSpot - Yesterday -
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 - 4 days ago -
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 - November 17 -
When Brain Cancer Struck a Baseball Family, a ‘Village’ Provided Shelter
One year ago, the daughter of an M.L.B. executive received a diagnosis that changed her family’s lives.Sports - The New York Times - 19 hours ago -
Occupy and destroy: Israel’s systematic demolition of Lebanese border villages
While the Israeli military has claimed to have limited goals for its invasion of southern Lebanon, an NBC News investigation found widespread destruction in areas occupied by the IDF.Top stories - NBC News - 16 hours ago -
In 'Ibelin' and 'Grand Theft Hamlet,' video game realms draw filmmakers with virtual cameras
A handful of new films don’t just deal with video games, they’re set inside themTech - ABC News - October 29 -
Vatican, Microsoft create AI St. Peter's Basilica to allow virtual visits, log damage
A digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica has been created using artificial intelligence to explore one of the world’s most important monument’sWorld - ABC News - November 11 -
Virtually no aid has reached besieged north Gaza in 40 days, UN says
The UN says bakeries and kitchens have shut down due to limited supplies in the region.Top stories - BBC News - 6 days ago -
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 - November 20 -
‘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 - 4 days ago -
Baby Battista's basement comedy shows combine wine, jokes and refuge in Atwater Village
Located on Glendale Boulevard in Atwater Village, Baby Battista can be found beneath the bottle shop Nico's. The revamped basement goes far beyond a childhood friend's enviable rec room — it has ...Entertainment - Los Angeles Times - 5 hours ago -
Stop the Boycott of Israeli Culture
An attack on culture divides the very people who should be in direct dialogue, reading each other’s books. It cannot be that the solution to conflict is to read less, and not more.Top stories - The New York Times - October 31 -
A helping hand to America's wounded veterans
In 2004 Karen Guenther was an ICU nurse at Camp Pendleton, in California, when wounded service members from the Battle of Fallujah started coming home, to seemingly insurmountable financial ...Top stories - CBS News - November 10
