The personal assets of Monroe L. Beachy, a 77-year-old Amish man, included a horse, buggy and harness. According to the Securities and Exchange Commission, his skills included financial fraud.

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In an Amish village, the SEC alleges a Madoff-like fraud

Six months after the floods which devastated Pakistan, Aleem Maqbool revisits the village of Pakha Galwa to find a community still in shock.

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Pakistan ‘still in shock’ after floods

Wayne Barrett and Tom Robbins, two muckraking fixtures of the New York City press corps, are leaving The Village Voice. Mr. Barrett was let go; Mr. Robbins quit in protest.

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Media Decoder: Two Fixtures Leave Village Voice

The Taliban attack an elder trying to negotiate a truce on behalf of his village with the Afghan government.

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Taliban attack truce talks elder

“I have some gifts for your village. I’d like to give them to you to distribute to the people.”

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An American face on American aid

KULLUWAL, PAKISTAN – With its single dirt road, friendly residents and abundance of drowsing donkeys, this village hardly seems a hotbed of religious radicalism.

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Blasphemy trials in Pakistan reveal a fractured justice system

MATANAI, PAKISTAN – In this village within miles of the Afghan border, Noor Malik is struggling to keep his pro-government tribal militia alive.

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Pakistani anti-Taliban militias offer lessons for U.S. in Afghanistan

Alex Gradwell-Spencer is expecting a baby any day and is stuck in her village of Mottram in Longdendale in the Peak District.

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Pregnant and stranded by snow

Hungarian authorities have evacuated the village of Kolontar amid fears of a second wave of red toxic sludge.

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At the mercy of a second toxic spill

The Hungarian authorities have evacuated the village worst affected by Monday’s toxic waste spill, after damage was found in another of the reservoir’s walls.

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Toxic reservoir wall ‘in very bad shape’

Hungarian authorities evacuate the village of Kolontar amid fears of a second wave of red toxic sludge.

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Hungary fears second toxic wave

Steven Thrasher at The Village Voice has a theory on the current political deadlock, on Arizona’s immigration bill, the ground zero mosque, Glenn Beck, Christine O’Donnell, and Carl Paladino: White people have gone stark raving mad. The lunacy…

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Have White People Lost Their Minds?

David Sillito takes a look around the village pub that doubles as a library

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A novel idea: The library in a pub

Allan Little heads to the village of Medjugorje in Bosnia-Hercegovina, where many believe the Virgin Mary appears daily.

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Man who ‘sees’ Virgin Mary daily