northern

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Just hours after the agreement was announced, air raid alarms sounded in northern Israel with a "suspicious aerial target" identified without causing any casualties.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

She has decried revelations of the recent participation of CIA officials in a raid on a drug lab in northern Chihuahua state, saying it was a breach of sovereignty.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

Although the research directly benefits Grand Canyon National Park, its significance extends well beyond northern Arizona.

From Science Daily • Jun. 2, 2026

It was a particularly rapid movement up the Iron Pipeline, the name for the trafficking channel from southern states with lax gun laws to northern states with stricter ones.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026

That summer the young women of the 46th Taman Guards moved their open-cockpit Po-2s to fly harassment missions in Belorussia’s deep forest, along the northern end of the front.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein