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Passengers and crew overpowered the attacker and retook control of the Flydubai aircraft, landing it safely at an airport in Tabuk, northwestern Saudi Arabia, with more than 170 people on board.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
FJ Unger, a 65-year-old entrepreneur, moved to Galicia in northwestern Spain in 2022, drawn in part by the relatively cool summers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
We got out at the northwestern edge of the lagoon, where there are swaths of land that have been churned up by heavy machinery, stretches of gravel, and remnants of fencing.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
The investigation began during a postgraduate course, when researchers noticed an unusual growth mark in the microscopic structure of a fully grown C. theotonicus fossil discovered in northwestern Argentina.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees had decided to relocate all of us to a new camp sixty miles inside northwestern Kenya.
From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau
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