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Observers fear that Azerbaijan might be preparing another offensive, with the goal of securing a route to its own exclave of Nakhichevan—a region of around 100,000 people that is separated from Azerbaijan by a sliver of Armenian territory.
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Olesya Vartanyan, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2023
Baku is currently demanding that Yerevan agree to the establishment of a corridor through Armenian territory that would connect Azerbaijan to Nakhchivan, an exclave of Azerbaijan jammed between Iran, Armenia, and Turkey.
—Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 10 Apr. 2023
Lithuania accused Moscow of waging a propaganda battle and taking a threatening stance in a standoff over Vilnius restricting the transit of sanctioned goods to the Russia’s exclave of Kaliningrad.
—Bloomberg.com, 23 June 2022
Russia has released a U.S. Navy veteran who apparently illegally crossed the border from Poland into the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad last year and was held there for nine months.
—Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2023
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Olesya Vartanyan, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2023
Baku is currently demanding that Yerevan agree to the establishment of a corridor through Armenian territory that would connect Azerbaijan to Nakhchivan, an exclave of Azerbaijan jammed between Iran, Armenia, and Turkey.
—Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 10 Apr. 2023
Lithuania accused Moscow of waging a propaganda battle and taking a threatening stance in a standoff over Vilnius restricting the transit of sanctioned goods to the Russia’s exclave of Kaliningrad.
—Bloomberg.com, 23 June 2022
Russia has released a U.S. Navy veteran who apparently illegally crossed the border from Poland into the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad last year and was held there for nine months.
—Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2023
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London time, with major bourses in mixed territory.—
Chloe Taylor,
CNBC,
7 Feb. 2025
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Located in The Hague in the Netherlands, the ICC investigates and prosecutes individuals for war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and crimes of aggression against the territory of its member states, of which there are 125.—
Christian Edwards,
CNN,
7 Feb. 2025
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The reception from their private showrooms encouraged the designers to embark on their own retail outposts.—
Layla Ilchi,
WWD,
5 Feb. 2025
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The State Department would not comment if Rubio planned to accept the invitation to visit what the Trump administration has described – incorrectly — as a de facto Chinese military outpost in Panama.—
Patrick Oppmann,
CNN,
31 Jan. 2025
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In Mae La camp, Rosella can’t stray far from her oxygen tank.—
Ivan Watson,
CNN,
11 Feb. 2025
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Read on to find a list of foods in the latter camp that registered dietitians wholeheartedly recommend.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
11 Feb. 2025
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This year’s festival features films from multiple genres including comedy, drama, documentaries, animation, LGBTQ, horror, religious, foreign and African diaspora, shorts and more.—
David L. Coddon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Jan. 2025
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Salsa builds on Afro-Caribbean rhythms and emerged from the poor Latino communities in New York in the 1960s, with a strong influence and participation from Puerto Ricans in the diaspora.—
Vanessa Diaz,
Rolling Stone,
20 Jan. 2025
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But the practice exploded with the influx of Spanish, Dutch, French and Portuguese colonialists, eventually spreading throughout South and Central America, Mexico, the 13 British colonies and what is now the American Southwest.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA TODAY,
6 Feb. 2025
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Different pieces of the same coral colony are, for the most part, genetically identical.—
Benji Jones,
Vox,
4 Feb. 2025
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Trump echoed Musk's criticism of FEMA and continued to bash it in a social media post on Truth Social Tuesday.—
Luke Barr,
ABC News,
11 Feb. 2025
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The ride-hailing company will use Intel’s Mobileye AV tech and Japanese conglomerate Marubeni’s fleet of cars at launch, CEO David Risher revealed in a series of posts on X. Marubeni currently manages over 900,000 vehicles globally through various subsidiaries and joint ventures.—
Jibin Joseph,
PCMAG,
11 Feb. 2025
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There are Corinthian columns across the front, a veranda on either side, and the ghosts of plantation cotton all around.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2025
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Its unit Panoramic Industrial Development owns large tracts of land in Johor, a predominantly plantation area that Malaysia and Singapore are developing into a special economic zone.—
Jonathan Burgos,
Forbes,
30 Jan. 2025
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“Exclave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exclave. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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