Neighbors vs. nomads in land feud
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COTTENHAM, England -- A brutal killing, cigarette smuggling, a tax revolt, and a human rights dispute -- the last things one would expect to find in an English village.
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When the local government announced it was going to confiscate their homes and businesses to make room for a new development, residents of this village in southeastern China fought back.
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MITROVICA, Serbia  - There is a silent land swap under way in Kosovo, sifting Serb from Albanian under the noses of Western powers who swore the breakaway province would never be split along ethnic lines.
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Angry Masai tribesmen have begun claiming ranches held by white settlers in Kenya, but the authorities are rebuffing the trespasses.
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Neighbors of a South Valley trailer park are fed up with what they say are worrisome activities going on at the park.   They have met with state and county officials and told them loud music, speeding, fighting and annoying activity is ruining their neighborhood.
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PHOENIX, Arizona  - In recent weeks the battle lines in a heated debate in the United States over illegal immigration have been drawn across the sidewalk outside an Arizona furniture store.
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By RUSSELL MAX SIMON Journal Staff Writer  Homeowners in the Quail Run golf course development off Old Pecos Trail are opposing a low- and middle-income development planned right next door.
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Namibia's managing of its land conflict as it aims for a fairer distribution of land between white and black farmers has ramifications for the region.
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angry villagers burned down houses of ethnic minority people they blame for separatist violence, police say. Settlers in the area attacked Bodo people and burned down at
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A man buys a house on an acre, with a large backyard edged on one side by a fence, beyond which is a neighbor's land.
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Before December 2005, the Chadian village of Bir Kedouas , left, was a tidy collection of huts in walled compounds and cultivated fields. A later satellite image shows what is left: The former homesites (marked with red circles) and fields are now a charred scar in the earth. The entire population...
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By Todd Hollingshead, The Salt Lake Tribune  Dec. 8--PROVO -- Some landowners who want out of Pleasant Grove have  taken their case to 4th District Court.    Stanley B.
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With millions of acres of public land available for hunting in Minnesota and Wisconsin, it might seem odd that some outdoorsmen fight over who has the right to hunt on certain land.
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By SE RUCKMAN  PAWHUSKA -- Private landowners voiced strong opposition this week to a proposed Osage Nation environmental law that would assert jurisdiction over the wildlife, land and water on its reservation.
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DONGZHOU, China -- The resentment that led to a bloody confrontation between farmers and policemen here last December has only sharpened over the past 11 months. Local officials are still corrupt, Dongzhou residents complained, and a jutting power plant has risen on the land whose seizure by the...
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Peasants want to own their land and have organized rallies in several provinces. More are planned.
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Nairobi, Jan. 28-- The toll from five days of fighting between rival tribal gangs in western Kenya rose to at least 85 Monday, as the brutal, hand-to-hand clashes moved into the normally-calm and scenic tourist town of Naivasha, about two hours from Nairobi.