The security cabinet of the Israeli government is set to vote on the ceasefire deal with Hamas, paving the way for a truce and release of hostages as early as Sunday. Until then, Israel is continuing ...

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It’s 40 years since Anita Brookner won the Booker Prize for her slender novel Hotel du Lac. The awards were televised back ...

In southern Bulgaria, in the village of Tyurkmen ... Kazakhstan, Japan, and South Korea. By one estimate, the area of farm land that's been abandoned around the world since 1950 could be as ...

Erik Buhrow dreams of retiring in Japan. Until then, he'll rent out the akiya, or abandoned home, to other Americans who want to try living there.

Though the village has been abandoned in recent decades as its inhabitants went in search of better economic opportunities, Kuk Po has, starting in 2021, been revitalised as part of a government ...

Stripping off is customary at Dogo Onsen. The onsen resort village in Matsuyama, Shikoku – the smallest of Japan’s four main islands – is touted as the country’s oldest hot springs.

KURAYOSHI, Tottori Prefecture--Nearly 40 years after its closure, the Kurayoshi Line here is drawing tourists and winning praise on social media as Japan’s “most beautiful abandoned railway ...

By the time the nephew had his second cardiac arrest last year, at age 53, that section of the road to his village had been fixed, but a delay in calling the ambulance meant it could not arrive in ...