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A 2014 civil war resulted in the Houthis seizing control of the capital, Sanaa, and large portions of northern and northwestern Yemen, including a strategic swath of the Red Sea coast.
From Los Angeles Times
About 250 million years ago, a region that is now a harsh desert in remote northwestern Australia lay along the edge of a shallow bay connected to a vast prehistoric ocean.
From Science Daily
There are two possible locations, both in northwestern China, and he is hoping to get there in the next couple of years.
But the floods that battered northwestern Morocco in recent weeks have left evacuees like Habachi with little to celebrate.
From Barron's
The government said this week it was moving the last remaining families from the camp in Syria’s remote borderlands with Iraq to another displacement camp in northwestern Syria, where the state has stronger infrastructure.
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