Police in Turkey raid the homes of 30 former military figures as an arrest warrant is issued for a retired general.

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New crackdown on Turkish military

Syrian forces are targeting civilians displaced from their homes by earlier fighting, an opposition group said Saturday, three days before a deadline for government forces to withdraw from cities.

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There’s no shortage of depressing numbers about the state of the nation’s housing market. Home prices continue to fall , a key index showed Tuesday. Sales of new and existing homes recently declined . U.S. borrowers owe a collective $700 billion more on their mortgages than their homes are worth. Foreclosures are ramping up again in many places — more than 25,000 Maryland homeowners have received notices this year. Read full article > >

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Housing experts optimistic, despite dismal data

He is the most powerful federal employee you’ve never heard of. Edward DeMarco has slowed the economic recovery with the stroke of a pen. His actions are costing taxpayers tens of billions of dollars, forcing millions of homeowners to lose their homes, and contributing to the falling housing prices that are a brake on the recovery. Read full article > >

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Rupert Murdoch is scheduled to visit the London headquarters of News International just days after Scotland Yard raided the homes of five senior staff members at The Sun.

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Rupert Murdoch to Try to Quell Newsroom Anger at The Sun

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

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