northern

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His father was an explosives engineer for a mining company in a little-known part of northern Spain, his mother worked in a department store.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

A former CIA officer who flipped a swing House district in northern Virginia twice, Spanberger has now been governor of the commonwealth for roughly four months.

From Salon • Apr. 15, 2026

Iraq can send some of its northern crude through a pipeline to Turkey, but most of the country’s oil production comes from its southern fields, which have no inland connection to the pipeline.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

Stegra, formerly known as H2 Green Steel, is building a large-scale steel mill in northern Sweden that will replace the coal traditionally used for iron ore-based steelmaking with hydrogen produced from renewable energy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

His fields stretched from northern Iran into Azerbaijan, which, at the time, was a part of the Russian Empire.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri