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Last year, Turkey reached a historic turning point in its decades-long conflict with militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) after the group renounced violence and ambitions to secede.—
Jeremy Diamond, CNN Money, 14 Jan. 2026
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Maersk first tacked on these surcharges at the start of the Red Sea crisis in December 2023, when Houthi militants in Yemen began to launch drone and missile attacks against commercial ships passing through the waterway.—
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Published 70 years ago, this shocking poem was a powerful rebuke to conformists in 1950s America.—
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Carrying a 1,000-pound penetrating warhead and with a range of up to 620 miles (1,000 kilometers), the JASSM can also be fired well off Iranian shores from a range of US Air Force jets, including F-15, F-16 and F-35 fighters and B-1, B-2 and B-52 bombers, as well as US Navy F/A-18 fighters.—
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The bit began with two UFC fighters who emerged to serve as their personal bodyguards against any ravenous super-fans.—
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“Diehards.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diehards. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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