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Recent Examples of regionsThough capping off a rainy month, this storm is only expected to bring a couple hundredths of an inch to two-tenths of an inch in its rainiest regions, Canepa added.—Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2026 This year’s Udine edition gathers 15 participants across project and career tracks for sessions with prominent buyers, financiers and co-production partners from both regions.—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 26 Apr. 2026 Italian regions known for spacious villas are a perfect fit for multi-generational groups.—Jessica Puckett, Boston Herald, 26 Apr. 2026 These singularities, combined with the hard limits of the joints, slice the robot’s possible movement space into feasible regions the researchers call aspects.—Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 26 Apr. 2026 Nearly half of large eastern wildfires now burn in densely populated areas, putting far more communities at risk than western blazes that typically occur in remote regions.—Seth Borenstein, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2026 Many countries in those regions are looking to China as a better strategic economic partner.—Tom Jurkowsky, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2026 In the following decades, New World screwworm has steadily returned northward from endemic regions in South America.—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2026 That's true in all regions of the country, except the south-central United States.—ABC News, 25 Apr. 2026
The coalition — composed of transit districts, town municipality groups and other transportation advocates — reported that without the state funding, more than 10,000 riders across 15 microtransit zones face the threat of service eliminations and have to seek other transportation alternatives.
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Sara Bedigian,
Hartford Courant,
28 Apr. 2026
For its part, Beijing could allow unfettered access to the internet in places where foreigners congregate, like tourist hotels, office buildings, and trade zones.
This includes soaring gas prices at the pump, seesawing stock markets, rising food and fertilizer prices, higher shipping-insurance costs, and fuel shortages that have touched off violence, work stoppages, and profiteering in parts of Asia and Africa.
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Sudarsan Raghavan,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2026
Very little offends me in a moral sense in the theater, but parts of this script came close.
On Saturday, Moscow pummeled the central city of Dnipro and other areas for more than twenty hours with barrages of missiles and drones, killing at least seven people.
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Sudarsan Raghavan,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2026
Salisbury Mayor Randy Taylor said the city and county have not had a formal reimbursement agreement for Salisbury Fire Department service to county areas for several years.