crossing
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“We are now dangerously close to crossing a moral red line: the autonomous targeting of humans by machines,” U.N.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Her portrayal of Doralee Rhodes combined comic timing with warmth, helping to redefine expectations of performers crossing over from music into film.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Iran’s recently created agency, the Persian Gulf Strait Authority, identified 46 vessels it says violated its rules for crossing the strait and threatened them with fines, detention or seizure of their cargoes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Robles told parliament that agents of the CNI intelligence service had shared information about a possible imminent migrant crossing with security forces shortly before it happened, but Grande-Marlaska appeared to contradict her.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
And for the first time in history, enormous steamships regularly crossing the world’s oceans outnumbered vessels propelled by sail.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
A torrent of water tearing through Gyirong Port, one of the main border crossings between Nepal and Tibet, sweeping away all in its path as hundreds of people fled for their lives.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
He also added that he was pleased with the drastic reduction in illegal border crossings.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
Stopping the trade in equipment for Channel crossings is the first layer of tactics being used by the UK and other countries.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Only two out of the 166 crossings used the U.S.-backed route along Oman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Forty thousand years ago, those crossings may have been achieved by bamboo rafts, low-tech but seaworthy watercraft still in use in coastal South China today.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
