Aida, receiving word that her sons – who were taken by Serbian forces — may be alive and held in a camp, launches a desperate search through a refugee center crowded with thousands of displaced women.
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Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
15 Apr. 2026
In 2015, Germany opened its doors to almost a million refugees, most of them from Syria, taking in almost 3 million in the decade between then and 2024.
Authorities arrested Atajurt’s founder Serikzhan Bilash in 2019, releasing him into exile after extracting a promise not to engage in political activities.
In the city’s early years, people would flock to Newport Beach from Los Angeles and elsewhere for beach vacations, a tourist town that visitors fell in love with, buying second homes or moving in permanently.
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Laylan Connelly,
Oc Register,
19 Apr. 2026
People first began coming to the barrier island town in 1830, when it was established as North Carolina's first tourist colony by a planter who wanted to get his family away from the malaria that was so prevalent in his home fields.
Those include sites like Bonneville Point – where emigrants got their first glimpse of the Boise River Valley and trail ruts can be seen – and Three Island Crossing State Park, named for the most crucial and challenging river crossing in the state.
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Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2026
At least one of Mellone’s cases had been rejected in lower courts before the new law, hinging partially on rulings that Italian emigrants who took on another citizenship before having children cannot pass on Italian citizenship.
The city’s gravitational pull operates differently, and more powerfully, for the billions in the Global South than for the few Western expatriates who fled at the first missile alert.
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Bobby Ghosh,
Time,
8 Apr. 2026
Flights in and out of the Middle East came to a near-complete stop, stranding residents, expatriates, and tourists alike, even as Iran struck the region’s most crowded cities and luxury hotels.
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Britannica Editors,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
31 Mar. 2026
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