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In northeastern Ukraine's Kharkiv region, Lieutenant Colonel Vasyl Kobziak told AFP on Sunday morning that things were "rather calm" in his sector.
From Barron's • Apr. 12, 2026
The roughly 60-mile journey adds to the hundreds of miles she’s already traveled from her birthplace in Plumas County, in the far northeastern corner of California.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026
In the early 2000s, Moshiri told the Journal, he accompanied Chávez to visit the site of a planned deepwater port in northeastern Venezuela, to bring offshore gas into the country.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026
The yellow flag of the Iran-backed armed group was hanging on top of a pile of rubble in the northeastern town of Younine.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026
At the end of July 1966, Howard Fuller spoke before black residents of Woodland, North Carolina, an isolated and impoverished rural hamlet in the northeastern corner of the state.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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