regional

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Beijing moved Ma into regional politics in late 2013, naming him law-enforcement chief and deputy party secretary for the prosperous southeastern province of Guangdong.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Metro is not the only regional public agency to have its computer systems targeted in a cyberattack.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

The government maintains that Australia has all the fuel it needs, but panic buying and distribution problems have created regional shortages.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026

The outage at QatarEnergy, the world’s largest LNG exporter, has in turn knocked offline the No. 1 global supplier of helium, while blunting regional fertilizer exports and jolting aluminum production.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Some apparent regional or continentwide regressions of technology in Australia may stem from the isolation and relatively few inhabitants of its population centers.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond