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Reuters - Israel is pushing ahead with plans to build 1,300 new apartments for Jewish families in Arab East Jerusalem, the Interior Ministry said on Monday, despite fierce opposition from…

AP - Israeli settlers have begun building new homes at an extraordinary pace since the government lifted its moratorium on West Bank housing starts — almost 550 in three weeks,…

AP - Chile’s 33 rescued miners got heroes’ welcomes, still wearing the sunglasses that make them look like rock stars, as they pushed through swarms of news media eager to…

AP - Israel’s government ended an unofficial freeze on new building in east Jerusalem, approving the construction of 238 homes in Jewish neighborhoods as peace talks remained stuck Friday over…

AP - The old man stepped carefully through his village, dodging craters as deep as graves where they had been mining soil for embankments to hold back the floodwaters. Already,…

AP - Raging forest fires encircled a southern Russian city and tore through provincial villages Thursday, forcing mass evacuations as Moscow suffered through a record, weeks-long heat wave and smog…

Time.com - With 1.5 million people still homeless after the quake, one U.N. agency is pushing a cheap, “transitional” solution. But why not just build permanent housing?

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AP - Reservoirs along the U.S.-Mexico border rose to their highest levels in decades after days of drenching rain, forcing officials to close two border bridges Wednesday, dump dam water…

AP - A Jerusalem planning body on Monday approved a plan to raze 22 Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem to make room for an Israeli tourist center, a decision that…

AP - Jerusalem’s mayor is moving ahead with a construction plan that would involve razing 22 Palestinian homes in the city’s contested eastern sector.

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