southern

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Strikes also hit Beirut's southern suburbs, a stronghold for the Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah, after a warning from the Israeli army, as well as several areas in southern and eastern Lebanon.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

India's Supreme Court is hearing petitions challenging a landmark 2018 order that allowed women of menstruating age into the famed Sabarimala temple in southern Kerala state.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

SEOUL—At a rare Workers’ Party congress recently, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s rhetoric grew fiery when discussing his southern neighbors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

Though much of southern Lebanon is predominantly Shiite, Kfar Chouba and its neighbors comprise a pocket of Christian, Druze and Sunni Muslim communities.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Of course there were massive accounting problems in calculating the different state debts, not the least of the difficulties being sloppy records kept by several southern states, with Virginia topping the list for administrative disarray.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis