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Stretched public finances and a rapidly aging population are threatening this covenant, stoking fear and anger across the continent over the future of a cradle-to-grave welfare state voters had long taken for granted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

"Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated," she wrote on X.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026

They are responsible for substantial morbidity and mortality across the continent.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Students have taken to the streets in France, Belgium, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Serbia and Albania – a more than 1,000-mile span of the continent.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

By the time a seasick Phineas Gage staggered ashore here in 1859, San Francisco was still a frontier town on the farthest edge of the continent.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

Bushby's journey took him to four continents, with key moments including navigating through the dense jungles of the Darién Gap, crossing the frozen Bering Strait and, more recently, swimming the English Channel.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

He pursued love affairs on two continents, most notably with Adélaïde de Flahaut—countess, novelist and shrewd politician.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Student unions play a role in organising marches, but they are also inspired by the actions of peers in other countries, even other continents.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Mountain ranges contain valuable records of Earth's distant past, preserving traces of vanished oceans, shifting continents, and the geological processes that transformed the planet over millions of years.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

The title of this book will serve as shorthand for those proximate factors, which also enabled modern Europeans to conquer peoples of other continents.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond