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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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‘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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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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‘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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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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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.
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Pastor or Traitor? Ukrainians Shun a Church Seen as a Kremlin Tool
The village parishioners’ decision to oust their priest reflects a broader push within Ukraine to reduce the influence of an Orthodox church that answers to Moscow.
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A Story of Arab Loss Comes to Life at a Kibbutz in Israel
A museum founded by pioneering Zionists has been hosting a sweeping retrospective of Palestinian art.
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Facing a Future of Drought, Spain Turns to Medieval Solutions and ‘Ancient Wisdom’
Acequias, a network of water channels created by the Moors over 1,000 years ago, are being excavated and brought back to life to adapt to the crises of climate change.