By his spiritual discernment, the prophet Elisha was repeatedly able to warn the king of Israel about ambushes planned by the king of Syria.
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Liesl Ehmke,
Christian Science Monitor,
29 June 2026
Cuba also maintains elite forces trained for counter-special-operations missions, guerrilla warfare, ambushes, sabotage and close protection of senior leaders.
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Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
28 May 2026
This is because the infrastructure of the city traps in all of the heat that built up during the day, thus preventing a normal nocturnal cooldown seen in non-urban settings.
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Matthew Villafane,
CBS News,
29 June 2026
One of the biggest traps organizations fall into is assuming employees already know what behaviors are valued.
Russia has still not managed to take the much smaller surrounding towns of Chasiv Yar, Pokrovsk and Kostyantynivka, where back-and-forth assaults have been raging for years.
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Bloomberg News,
Boston Herald,
27 June 2026
The attacks came a day after Ukraine launched what appeared to be one of Kyiv's biggest drone assaults since the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion more than four years ago.
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