eastern

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Early last week, Iran’s women’s soccer team stood on a field on Australia’s Gold Coast, a city on the country’s eastern seaboard, ready to play the first game in an international tournament.

From The Wall Street Journal

A yellow warning for wind for North Wales, northern England, southern and eastern areas of Scotland comes in to force at 05:00 GMT and will stay valid until 20:00.

From BBC

The toll among African soldiers, according to Inpact, has been highest in regiments stationed in Donetsk, a region of eastern Ukraine that Russia has repeatedly tried and failed to seize.

From The Wall Street Journal

A French national working for the UN in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been killed, the French president has said, following reports of drone strikes on the eastern city of Goma.

From BBC

While denying offering the M23 military backing, Rwanda insists that it faces an existential threat from the presence in the eastern DRC of armed groups linked to the 1994 Rwandan genocide of the Tutsis.

From Barron's