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‘The Old Oak’ Review: The Audacity of Hope
A family of Syrian refugees connects with a once-thriving mining town in Ken Loach’s moving drama.
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Big-League Dreams
In One Image Big-League Dreams By Atul Loke and Mujib Mashal Maybe, just maybe, that was their future on the screen. After a long day of school and cricket practice, two sisters in a Punjab village had their eyes glued on the pros. India’s new Women ...
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Big-League Dreams
In One Image Big-League Dreams By Atul Loke and Mujib Mashal Maybe, just maybe, that was their future on the screen. After a long day of school and cricket practice, two sisters in a Punjab village had their eyes glued on the pros. India’s new Women ...
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Russia Took the City. Now It’s Coming for Their Villages.
Ukrainian farmers and miners and their families who live to the west of the recently captured Avdiivka are poised to flee in the face of a Russian onslaught.
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Round and Round We Go: Circular Strolls Near London
When is walking in circles a good thing? When following a trail through villages, forests and fields using open-access paths that begin and end at the same train station. Britain is known for being a country of walkers, with thousands of miles of ...
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For Tiny Village Near Gaza, Some Hostages Return, but More Are Still Missing
All but one of the 13 Israeli hostages released on Friday were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz, an Israeli village close to the Gaza border where Hamas militants took more than 70 people on Oct. 7. Family members said they were thankful that 12 hostages ...
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Many West Bank Palestinians Are Being Forced Out of Their Villages. Is My Family Next?
I was born in February 1998 in Tuba, a rural shepherding community of 80 Palestinian residents in the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank, where my family has lived for generations. Over the years we have suffered repeated attacks by Israeli settlers ...
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Chapter 5: An Unlikely Escape Route
For Nasreen, getting to New Delhi after she ran away from her family and the betrothal they had arranged for her was a daring feat. But surviving there tested her determination. In the summer, the heat bore down like a steam iron. In the winter, the ...
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Overlooked No More: Adefunmi I, Who Introduced African Americans to Yoruba
A pivotal conversation led him on a quest to understand African history and create a one-of-a-kind village for practitioners of the Yoruba religion.
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A Father, an Earthquake and the Desperate Search for a Missing Son
Noor Ahmad didn’t know where else to look. For days after a powerful earthquake leveled his village in Afghanistan, he scoured the district for his family. He dug under the rubble that was once their home. He combed through the trauma rooms in the ...
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