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And it was a familiar straddle for cycling, a sport with a history of PR-polishing sponsors like oil companies and sovereign funds.

After immigrating to Australia from the Basque Country, a region that straddles the border between France and Spain, the working-class house painter took roughly 13 years to build the family’s home.

The Mendenhall Glacier, one of the biggest tourist attractions in the region, is part of the Juneau Ice Field, a mass of interconnected glaciers that straddles the boundaries of Alaska and British Columbia, Canada.

Turkey has sought to straddle the divide at times between Russia and the West during the war.

Protecting lives is no easy task in the nation’s most populated county, built on land prone to fires and straddling five active earthquake faults.