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World
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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Newyork
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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World
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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World
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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World
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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World
‘The Wrath of God’: Afghans Mourn Unimaginable Loss From Quake
The deadliest earthquake to strike the country in decades leveled entire hamlets. Many people lost most, if not all, of their immediate family.
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World
Wheat, Sunflowers and Dozens of New Graves
In Hroza, Ukraine, where one-sixth of the hamlet was killed in a missile strike, officials and survivors have begun the daunting task of identifying and burying the dead.
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World
‘There were terrorists inside’: An Israeli recounts how militants invaded his village.
When the rockets from Gaza started flying over his village in southern Israel at dawn on Saturday, Amir Tibon was not overly alarmed. Mr. Tibon and his neighbors in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, a village that stands a few hundred yards from the Gaza Strip, have ...
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World
The Blast That Wiped Out a Family and Left Rows of Empty Homes
Wreaths and a yellow-and-blue Ukrainian flag still festooned the freshly cut grave in a village cemetery. Words written on decorative ribbons still expressed grief from a wife, children, uncles and aunts. All of those relatives, just a day later ...
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World
Israeli Herders Spread Across West Bank, Displacing Palestinians
Palestinian herding communities are abandoning their villages, ceding huge swaths of land to nearby Israeli settlers. Settler activists say it’s the result of their new strategy in the West Bank.