LINYI, China — At the turnoff road leading to the home village of activist lawyer Chen Guangcheng , burly thugs still hold sway, hiding their faces behind sunglasses, broad-brimmed straw hats and shirts held up to their noses. They prevent anyone from entering the village of Dongshigu, shouting and kicking the sides of cars that slow down or venture too close. Read full article > >

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In Chen’s frightened village, surveillance increases, thugs keep outsiders at bay

Kyo Ya, a Japanese hideaway in the middle of the East Village, offers a menu grounded in the shapes and rhythms of the natural world.

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KHAR NIKAH, Afghanistan — Inside a cold room surrounded by sand-filled Hesco barriers in the remote Gereshk Valley, British forces are teaching a group of young Afghan fighters how to protect their village from the Taliban. Read full article > >

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In Helmand, training Afghan Local Police is a challenge

The “Democracy Village” protest camp at Parliament Square in London is cleared by the police.

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Protest camp removed from square

Three village advocates who had been detained by the police during a confrontation in the village of Wukan in south China have been freed, a spokesman said on Tuesday.

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Three Advocates for Chinese Village Are Released

“It was dark and the water surrounded the village in a few hours,” he says while wiping the sweat from his forehead. “We fled outside just before the roof collapsed. All our belongings were washed away; we have nothing left.”

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The Forgotten and Abandoned: Why Flood Aid to Pakistan Has Dried Up

Tertulia, the chef Seamus Mullen’s gastropub in the West Village, sees its roots in northern Spain, and its success in a cuisine that is equal parts pork and seafood, garlic and smoked paprika.

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JERUSALEM – Israeli authorities say they believe Jewish extremists are responsible for setting fire to a mosque in northern Israel early Monday and leaving behind scrawled messages similar to those written after attacks on mosques in the West Bank. The arson in the village of Tuba-Zangaria caused extensive damage to the mosque and set off clashes between angry villagers and police. Read full article > >

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Mosque torched in northern Israel

Local residents in Crosby Ravensworth, Cumbria, have raised £300,000 to save the last pub in their village.

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A claim by Victor Willis, formerly of the Village People, for rights to “Y.M.C.A.” could become an important test case in copyright law.

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A Village Person Tests the Copyright Law

JERUSALEM — Arsonists believed to be Jewish settlers set fire to a mosque in the West Bank on Tuesday, the latest of a series of such attacks in recent years. An Israeli police spokesman said a tire was set ablaze inside a mosque in the village of Mughayir, near Ramallah, in an attempt to burn the building. Worshipers who arrived for morning prayers discovered scorched prayer carpets and Hebrew graffiti scrawled on a wall. The graffiti said, “price tag,” a reference to a practice by militant settlers who attack Palestinians and their property in response to moves by the Israeli authorities to take down unauthorized settlement outposts in the West Bank. Read full article > >

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Mosque torched in West Bank

KAFR EL-MESELHA, EGYPT — The main road in this dusty town on the Nile River Delta no longer bears the name of its most famous son. Hosni Mubarak Road is now simply Road No. 16. Gone too are the once ubiquitous mosaics and framed photos of the ousted Egyptian president. While millions of Egyptians celebrated Mubarak’s downfall three months ago as the rebirth of a nation, the mood in this village 45 miles north of Cairo was markedly subdued . Many here warned at the time that the revolutionaries were reckless enthusiasts without a morning-after plan. Mubarak, they argued, had kept the nation safe for three decades, and he deserved a dignified exit. Read full article > >

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After Egypt’s revolution, malaise spreads

Checkpoints blocked access to Baniyas, and forces carried out a violent raid on the village of Bayda.

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Syria Presses Crackdown in Two Cities on Coast

News of the possible sale of an East Village gallery and salon has sent shudders through the generations of artists devoted to it.

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A Place Where Emotions Became Poetry Is for Sale

Gabrielle Hamilton, the owner of the East Village restaurant Prune, has written a heady rush of a memoir, “Blood, Bones & Butter.”

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A Chef’s Life, With Scars and All