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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Shelling has subsided around the southern Syrian village where 21 Filipino peacekeepers have been held by rebels for three days, the head of a violence monitoring group said on Saturday, paving the way for their possible release. The peacekeepers - part of the U.N...

AP - As government troops advanced on a village in northwestern Syria, activists say the terrified residents fled into a valley for fear of being arrested or worse. What happened next, one of the activists said, was "an organized massacre." More...

The mayor of a flood-ravaged Saskatchewan village says he and other residents evacuated from their homes earlier this week have been hit by looters. "They're taking my stuff and destroying my stuff and my friends and neighbours' stuff," said Roche Percee Mayor Reg Jahn. Most residents of the...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2011/01/06/snow.ny.sidewalk.smoking.ban.cnn - If you want to smoke on the sidewalk of the Village of Great Neck, it might cost you $1,000. The local board of the Village of Great Neck in Long Island voted this week to ban smoking on sidewalks outside of...

Kabul, Afghanistan -- Taliban militants killed five Afghan village elders and wounded four others after firing a rocket-propelled grenade at the group's vehicle Wednesday, according to a statement from NATO's International Security Assistance Force. "This is a terrible tragedy and demonstrates...

Israeli soldiers take their positions in the village of Ghajar on November 10, 2010. Jerusalem -- Israel's security cabinet tentatively accepted a plan to withdraw the nation's troops from the strategic border town of Ghajar, one of the Mideast's more complicated locations, Cabinet Secretary...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/10/29/hancocks.indo.tsunami.worst1.cnn Monai, Indonesia -- Saluhu stares at the mass grave where his youngest son is buried. He struggles to comprehend the split second that changed his life forever. He relives the moment he started to run inland with...

Malaria medicine cited in illnesses, death CHENGDU, China, Medicines taken to prevent malaria is being blamed by local officials for sickening 104 people and killing one child in southwestern China. Health officials said Wednesday said the victims were given chloroquine and primaquine Monday...

OKCULAR, Turkey – A strong, pre-dawn earthquake knocked down stone and mud-brick houses, barns and minarets in eastern Turkey on Monday, killing 51 people in five villages, the government said. The earthquake surprised many residents as they slept, crumpling buildings into piles of rubble...

A small village was troubled by a man-eating lion. So its leaders sent a message to the great hunter, Jonesie, to come and kill the beast. For several nights the hunter lay in wait for the lion, but it never appeared. Finally, he told the village chief to kill a cow and give him its hide...

English village may use potholes for speed control -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By The Associated Press LONDON - A British village is considering a novel way to frustrate speeders by leaving its potholes in place. The proposal by the...