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BBC Panorama follows a grieving mother, Samira, who takes on the regime after her teenage daughter, Sevda, was shot dead while protesting on the outskirts of Tehran.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
At a community event at a co-living space on the outskirts of Dali’s old town, I met people trying to figure out their next steps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
Wednesday's crash is the worst the country has seen since 2013, when 80 people died on the outskirts of Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
At the Paris protest on Saturday, a row of police in riot gear led the crowd along the authorized route down boulevards on the city’s outskirts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
On the outskirts of the capital they built a storybook cottage, two stories, fretted with eaves and little porches and window boxes, an incongruous Alpine look in the tropics.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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