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Europe’s ‘oldest town’ found in Bulgaria
Relics of village carbon-dated to around 4,500 BC, making them more than a millenium older than Greek civilisation.
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Town sued over ‘school-prison pipeline’
Federal civil rights lawyers filed suit Wednesday against Meridian, Mississippi, and other defendants for operating what the government calls a school-to-prison pipeline in which students are denied basic constitutional rights, sent to court and incarcerated for minor school infractions.
Many dead after attack on Nigerian town
At least 23 people killed and several buildings destroyed after suspected Boko Haram fighters mount attack in Potiskum.
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Deadly car bomb rocks Pakistan town
Ten dead and dozens injured by bomb targeting pro-government militia in Darra Adam Khel town in northwest Pakistan.
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Town sweats prostitution scandal
An image on the website of Pura Vida Studio, in the picturesque Maine town of Kennebunk, shows 18 smiling women and one man seemingly flushed after an arduous dance workout. But that’s not the full picture, authorities say. Prosecutors say…
Town search for April nearly over
Police looking for April Jones say they have nearly completed their search of the town where she went missing 12 days ago.
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Syrian rebels claim control of strategic town
Opposition fighters have reportedly seized Maarat al-Numan, a key town on the highway to Aleppo.
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Deaths reported as shells hit near Sudan town
Army says stability restored after attack near Kadugli, in South Kordofan state, blamed on SPLM-North fighters.
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Nigeria attack town under curfew
Security forces are enforcing a curfew in Nigeria’s north-eastern town of Mubi after at least 26 people, most of them students, were killed by gunmen.
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Al-Shabab rebels pull out of key port town
Rebel group pulls out of Kismayo, its last stronghold, after an assault by Kenyan and African Union forces.
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Town debates future of house of Hitler’s birth
BRAUNAU, Austria (AP) — Living space in Braunau is scarce, but an imposing Renaissance-era building stands empty in this post-card pretty Austrian town because of the sinister shadow cast by a former tenant: Adolf Hitler.
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AU forces close in on al-Shabab town
Forces remain on alert in southern Somalia though armed group seems to have fled its stronghold, Marka.
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Kenya navy shells Somali port town
Kismayo, last stronghold of Islamist group al-Shabab militia, attacked in preparation for ground forces to capture town.
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Syrian jets strike town near Aleppo
Car bombing hits Damascus suburb as new UN envoy says resolving the war is a “nearly impossible” task.
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Town elects dead woman as mayor
Voters in Jacksons’ Gap, Alabama, voted to re-elect their mayor, even though she died weeks earlier.
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Mali Islamist group seizes key town
Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa takes strategic town of Douentza, moving closer to military-held territory.
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Man leaves $125M to small town
David Gundlach made a fortune in insurance. When he passed away he left it all to his hometown, Elkhart, Indiana.
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Suburban ‘ghost town’ of mass graves
Syrian government troops have left the Damascus suburb of Daraya a “ghost town,” an opposition activist said Sunday as scores of bodies were placed in mass graves.
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Syrian forces kill 23 rebels in town near Damascus
BEIRUT (AP) — Activists say government forces have stormed a rebel-held town outside the Syrian capital Damascus after days of fierce fighting, killing at least 23 fighters.
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Dozens killed in Syria air raid on rebel town
Children among dozens dead in Azaz, 45km north of Aleppo, after attacks reduce a row of residential homes to rubble.
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