Sunset streaks the sky above the blue-domed church, staining its whitewashed walls the colour of a cosmopolitan cocktail. At the foot of the hill, 200 metres below, the Aegean Sea has turned bronze.

"I can feel the collective investment this community has in its festivals, its customs, its schools, its history, everything," Grace Ptak says of her move to Scottsbluff.

Two policemen have been suspended after killing a tribal man in an alleged staged encounter in Jammu and Kashmir. The killing ...