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Russia's invasion began with dozens of missile strikes on cities all over Ukraine before dawn on 24 February 2022.

Or, they didn't mind until it started to dawn on them that Trump's hate rally in New York City may have backfired, at which point Musk quietly removed the ad.

In the Los Angeles area, weekend caravans typically meet at dawn on a Saturday for a drive that takes hours and return late the following night.

At least two residential buildings in the south-eastern al-Manara neighbourhood of Khan Younis were hit by Israeli strikes around dawn on Friday, according to a spokesman for Gaza’s Hamas-run Civil Defence agency.

Just after dawn on Thursday, I pointed my car up a long, steep hill outside Bishop and climbed through the high desert scrub toward the towering peaks of the Eastern Sierra.