continent
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A European airport-industry group has warned of jet-fuel shortages for the continent.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026
Pope Leo is currently in Algeria for a second day as part of his 11-day tour of the continent, in which he will also visit Cameroon, Angola and Equatorial Guinea.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
Moscow has also pushed a recruitment drive across the African continent, signing up fighters from Egypt to South Africa and from Ghana to Zimbabwe.
From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026
Once a destination for Western missionaries, the continent increasingly exports priests to parishes in Europe and North America, where the number of priests is declining.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
The first black slaves on the North American continent arrived in North Carolina via the West Indies in 1526, on the ship of a Spanish explorer-slave trader.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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