Every year, countless villages and towns in rural Germany stage their own "Schuetzenfest" or shooting fair.
"Thousands have fled to other city districts and nearby villages and towns, " said Abu Mousab of Homs.
We humans have been living together in villages and towns and such for slightly more than 12, 000 years.
Cyclone Nargis, which struck Myanmar's southern areas in 2008, destroyed entire villages and towns, killing more than 130, 000 people.
Walsh added: "The government is now systematically declassifying villages and towns as contaminated, " added the Chernobyl Children's Trust chairman.
There are still many villages and towns that rescuers are unable to approach.
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The Euphrates River glittered in the sunlight on the ride there, past villages and towns once dominated by al Qaeda terrorists.
In the north, villages and towns came under attack by unknown assailants.
The sludge has caused massive damage to Hungarian villages and towns close to the plant, as well as a wide swathe of farmland.
More than 220 villages and towns in Bulgaria were left without electricity, and toppled trees cut power in several mountainous suburbs in the capital Sofia.
In villages and towns across the state, marathon races and street theatre have joined the cricket matches to try to attract voters to the booths.
In a feat of social engineering black Africans live crammed in pens of squalor where some starve, while many of Sudan's Arabs live outside untouched villages and towns outside.
"Twenty-six years after the Chernobyl catastrophe, hundreds of villages and towns remain radioactively contaminated and millions of people, many of whom are children, live in these areas, " said Walsh.
Hundreds of Christians took to the streets in Mosul and surrounding villages and towns, demanding adequate representation on provincial councils, whose members will be chosen in the local elections.
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Zaw Htay, a spokesman for Burmese President Thein Sein acknowledged "whole villages and towns being burnt down in Rakhine State while we could not provide full security in some areas".
But activist and journalist Shoaib Choudhury, who documents such cases, said sharia is still very much in use in villages and towns aided by the lack of education and strong judicial systems.
These "death squads, bands of thugs, terrorists, paramilitaries" have occupied centers of cities, villages and towns from Umm Qasr, in the south, to areas about 250 miles north of there, he said.
During the floods in 2010, the World Heritage site was used as the only safe haven for thousands of flood affected families, staying here until the floods receded from their villages and towns.
Sharifa may be a limping casualty of war, but she and other young traumatized Syrians -- living in tents, crammed in apartments and hiding in villages and towns -- are now the country's future.
He complains that so far, NATO's month-old Operation Achilles has caused more schools to close, due to the fighting, but also because the Taliban returns to villages and towns after Western and Afghan troops leave.
Aleppo, Syria's main commercial hub, has been carved up into opposition- and government-held areas since the rebels launched an offensive there last summer, capturing several districts and villages and towns around the city, which is near the border with Turkey.
The tsunami flattened buildings in fishing villages and port towns, and swept debris miles in land.
The support base for this revolution was not the capital, Tbilisi, the traditional driver of Georgian politics, but villages and small towns, where family structures and individualism were stronger and Soviet rule was weaker.
The rebels have the advantage outside the main population centres and may now control more than half the area where most Syrians live, in villages and small towns, mainly in the western third of the country.
The council has said that, in total, 17 financially supported bus routes connecting outlying villages and smaller towns with Norwich and the main towns in the county would be affected, with no changes to the other 126 it helps keep on the road.
There are thought to be between 5, 000 and 6, 000 memorials in villages, towns and cities across the country.
The mud continues to flow today, and has displaced more than 16, 000 people, swamping entire villages, factories and towns in toxic sludge.
As the fighters reach more and more towns and villages, suicide attacks are on the rise in once peaceful areas.
Commanders and others say the successes of the U.S.-led surge in establishing stability last year and this year in Baghdad and nearby towns and villages have decimated militant leadership and operatives, leading to a decline in attacks.
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