north

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An AFP journalist in Tehran heard a series of blasts coming from the north of the city, without being able to determine what was hit.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

Sixty miles from Julian, I turn onto Bannister Road and bump north along a gravel track for three miles into the basin, to a parking lot 164 feet below sea level.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

West is due to headline all three nights of the event, which is expected to attract 50,000 people per day, in Finsbury Park, north London, from 10-12 July.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

Aaron Patzer skipped California and Hawaii, instead buying a home north of Auckland and pouring $500,000 into a renovation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

They had stayed sheltered under a huge fir tree, at the base of a bluff eleven miles north of the volcano.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone