nation

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Orla's father, Andrew Wates, told the hospital his daughter had loved Vietnam and so to give back to the South East Asian nation was "very important" to his family.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

Formerly part of Ethiopia, Eritrea fought a three-decade war of independence until it became its own nation in the early 1990s.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

That company, now known as CoreCivic, operates private prisons around the nation that are housing people picked up by federal immigration agents, including the one in Otay Mesa.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

The Philippines is the latest nation to strike a deal with Iran.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

Meanwhile, in the USSR—which, thanks to the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, wasn't under attack—young women across the nation were continuing their state-sponsored flight training and flight instruction as though nothing had changed.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein