BAGHDAD — Iraqi special forces units raided the homes of two Sunni politicians north of Baghdad on Friday, according to security officials, heightening fears among Sunni leaders that Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is targeting them along sectarian lines. Read full article > >

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Council tenants who sub-let their homes will face up to two years in prison and a £50,000 fine under proposals by the government.

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Sub-let council tenants face jail

Floods and landslides caused by heavy rain in south-eastern Brazil have killed at least six people and forced thousands from their homes.

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VIDEO: Deadly floods hit southern Brazil

Plans to make it a criminal offence for council tenants to sublet their homes are to be unveiled by the government.

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Crackdown on council home sublets

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A sinkhole that forced about 25 people to evacuate their homes Thursday spread to a nearby cemetery, threatening dozens of graves, authorities said. A Lehigh County judge granted Coroner Scott Grim the right to determine if the graves should be exhumed from the Union and West End Cemetery. No immediate decision was made, Grim said. Read full article > >

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Allentown graves may be exhumed amid water main break, sinkhole; about 25 residents evacuated

Tens of thousands of people who were flooded in 2007 may find it impossible to get cover for their homes and businesses unless the government and insurers reach a new agreement.

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Call for new flood insurance deal

Cancer patients are becoming increasingly reliant on charity handouts to heat their homes as they struggle to pay rising fuel bills, newly-published figures have shown.

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Cancer patients ‘rely on charity’

Texas police released a composite sketch Friday of a man they believe broke into the homes of four former members of the same sorority, then sexually assaulted them.

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Sketch released in sorority rape case

BERLIN — Nearly half of the 107,000 residents of Germany’s western city of Koblenz had to leave their homes Sunday as experts prepared to defuse a 1.8 ton World War II-era bomb discovered in the Rhine river. It’s one of Germany’s biggest bomb-related evacuations since the war ended, and some 2,500 police officers, firefighters and paramedics were on duty across the city to secure the operation. Read full article > >

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Tens of thousands evacuate German city as experts defuse massive British WWII-era bomb

Residents living near the site of a huge fire in Glasgow city centre are allowed back into their homes.

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Large blaze close to M8 motorway

E ight months ago, people left this place in haste. Families raced from their homes without closing the front doors. They left half-finished wine bottles on their kitchen tables and sneakers in their foyers. They jumped in their cars without taking pets, and left cows hitched to milking stanchions. Now the land stands empty, frozen in time, virtually untouched since the March 11 disaster that created a wasteland in the 12-mile circle of farmland that surrounds the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Read full article > >

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Around the Fukushima plant, a world left behind

Airbnb, the company matching travelers with people willing to rent out their homes or a room or a bed, isn’t perfect but it is economical.

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Many North Dakota residents flooded out by the Souris River have yet to return to their homes, and now winter is almost here.

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North Dakota Flood Victims Brace for Winter

The initial verdict on the administration’s new mortgage-refinancing plan was that it will have a fairly modest impact. Yes, it would likely help out struggling homeowners in states like Nevada and Florida, where home prices have plunged so deeply that many people now owe more than 125 percent of what their homes are worth. But it’s hard to see how the plan can boost the economy to any noticeable degree. Read full article > >

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More complaints, quibbles and advice for Obama’s housing plan

Training Afghans to protect their homes and fight the Taliban seems to be working. The problem is that it’s also allowing them to fight their own personal wars.

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