northern

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When you think of America’s trade with its neighbors, you probably think of car parts and tomatoes driven across the southern border with Mexico and oil piped across the northern border with Canada.

From Barron's • Jun. 30, 2026

Efforts by local and international rescue teams to pull survivors from the rubble grew increasingly desperate in Venezuela four days after two powerful earthquakes shook the northern state of La Guaira.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2026

Hungary on Tuesday hit a new temperature record, reaching 42C in Szecseny in northern Hungary, according to the national weather service, beating a previous record of 41.9C from 2007.

From Barron's • Jun. 30, 2026

She had been doing the washing up in her eighth-floor apartment in the northern coastal region of La Guaira when the earthquakes hit.

From BBC • Jun. 29, 2026

“The glimourie of their northern seas has gone, so they move. When the krakens panic, then we all have cause to fear. And now: her. The one they look for. In my ocean.”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell