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For rent: One Hungarian village, and a mayoral title

For rent: One Hungarian village, and a mayoral title

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Mayor Kristof Pajer was looking for a way to save his tiny Hungarian community from extinction. The solution? He put the whole village up for rent.

For 210,000 forints ($730) a day, visitors get access to seven guest houses that sleep 39 people, a bus stop, horses, chickens and four hectares (10 acres) of farm land.

Guests are offered the temporary title of deputy mayor, giving them the right to oversee law and order and rename the four village streets for the length of their stay.
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Peru’s aging inmates

Peru’s aging inmates

0 Comment The Baltimore Sun

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LIMA, Peru (AP) — Teresa de Jesus Tello never thought she would be incarcerated in a Peruvian prison at age 82.

The retired Peruvian teacher was arrested by anti-drug police at Lima’s Jorge Chavez airport at the end of 2014 when she allegedly tried to take a small suitcase filled with cocaine on a flight to Madrid, Spain.

She became one of 2,500 inmates over age 60 in the South American country’s prisons. Most of the elderly women behind bars are there for drug trafficking.

“I hope they have compassion for this poor woman who is living her last days,” Tello said on the patio of the block for senior citizens in Lima’s women’s prison in the Chorrillos district.

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Retrospective: The march from Selma to Montgomery

Retrospective: The march from Selma to Montgomery

0 Comment From the Vault, Nation, Retrospective

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In 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. led several attempts to march from Selma to Montgomery as part of the Selma Voting Rights Movement. The protesters encountered violent opposition from authorities and segregationists. But with federal backing, the demonstrators successfully made the four-day walk, a 50-mile stretch. That year, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act, which gave African-Americans the right to vote.

Using the style and language of journalists of the era, including a reference to blacks as “Negroes,” AP reporters captured the tension of the marches.

Fifty years after its original publication, The AP is making available excerpts from a series of stories about the marches’ progress.

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Pakistan religious schools in spotlight

Pakistan religious schools in spotlight

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Sitting on the ground, the students sway back and forth, deep in thought as they read Islam’s holy book, the Quran. Their white skull caps signify that they are students at one of the tens of thousands of religious schools across the country that have become embroiled in a debate about where militancy comes from.

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Mine explosion in Ukraine: 32 missing, 17 dead

Mine explosion in Ukraine: 32 missing, 17 dead

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A methane explosion ripped through a coal mine before dawn Wednesday in war-torn eastern Ukraine, killing at least 17 workers, officials said.

Miners arriving for work were enlisted to assist with what started as a rescue mission, but gradually became an operation to retrieve a mounting number of dead. That effort was hampered by limited access to the deep subterranean network.

Inside a Ukraine airport destroyed by a year of war | An Eastern Ukrainian village in ruins
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