southern

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Across Nigeria's oil-rich southern Niger Delta, decades of oil spills have left a landscape deeply scarred, with wetlands increasingly coated in crude and contaminated sediment.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

The project includes the construction of hotel complexes on the uninhabited island of Sazan and in the protected coastal area of Vjosa-Narta, located in the southern community of Zvernec.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

Statements from Israeli and Lebanese officials suggested the understanding doesn’t extend to southern Lebanon, where fighting continued Tuesday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

It was a particularly rapid movement up the Iron Pipeline, the name for the trafficking channel from southern states with lax gun laws to northern states with stricter ones.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026

It stated that these nations would hand over their land in what is now southern Indiana in exchange for a yearly payment.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz