• The possibility of fear is approaching, the way wind approaches a provincial capital.

    NEWYORKER: Labyrinth

  • Officials said it was the first time that the entire government of a provincial capital had been dismissed over suspected mafia links.

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  • Before, it had been warm and slightly dumb, the smile of a young lady from a provincial capital, but it had become a mean, hurtful smile, and it was easy to read the resentment, rage, and envy behind it.

    NEWYORKER: Clara

  • The only original thought, supported by some in and out of the mohajir movement, would be to take the politics out of business by creating a new provincial capital for Sindh, and to turn Karachi into a free port.

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  • Although his party won more votes than any other in December's municipal elections, it failed to win a single provincial capital.

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  • In the past few months, a number of guerrilla groups, such as the Anbar Revolutionaries based in Ramadi, a Sunni provincial capital to the west of Baghdad, have become more outspoken against extreme radical groups professing loyalty to al-Qaeda and may be willing to negotiate local ceasefires.

    ECONOMIST: Iraq

  • Hundreds of people then joined a protest in the provincial capital, Jayapura, demanding independence.

    BBC: Indonesia 'must address Papua discontent'

  • All of the victims were rushed to a hospital in the provincial capital, Medan, about 23 kilometers (14 miles) south of Belawan.

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  • Last month, with power supplies cut to six hours a day, kindergartens closing and water supplies disrupted, the provincial capital, Vladivostok, declared a state of emergency.

    ECONOMIST: The Kremlin versus the outpost

  • Xinhua said she and three other workers were sent to a hospital in the nearby provincial capital of Changchun.

    NPR: Fire Kills 119 At Poultry Plant In Northeast China

  • Brazil's foreign-affairs ministry plans to open a consulate in the nearby provincial capital, Guangzhou, this year so that it can serve its citizens better.

    ECONOMIST: Brazilians in China

  • Houses collapsed and roads buckled when the quake hit, with much of the intensity concentrated in Lushan, a county just southwest of the provincial capital of Chengdu.

    WSJ: Death Toll From China Quake Rises to 186

  • In Sunday's attack, two men on a motorcycle fired eight shots at the teacher, who was on his way to work at a Swedish language center in the provincial capital, the defense ministry officials said.

    CNN: Al Qaeda claims it killed American in Yemen

  • It takes just a half-hour to fly to Bamiyan's provincial capital from Kabul, but to drive you bounce for at least eight hours on a bone-jarring dirt track.

    NPR: With Vote Looming, Afghans Look for Progress

  • Among the affected areas was the provincial capital of Lata, a city of about 2, 300 in Temotu Province where hospital patients were evacuated to higher ground.

    WSJ: Tsunami Destroys Villages in Solomon Islands

  • As Mr Biden was showing off US military hardware in Beirut, Hezbollah was staging its own show of strength in Nabatieh, a provincial centre south-east of the capital.

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  • On Jan. 19, the first day after the Muslim fasting month, a quarrel broke out between a Muslim migrant and a Christian minicab driver in Ambon, the provincial capital.

    CNN: COMMUNAL FACE-OFF

  • In Chengdu, the provincial capital, on May 21st a police car shadowed about 100 unofficial relief workers who marched through the streets after dark, carrying candles and chanting patriotic slogans.

    ECONOMIST: The earthquake in Sichuan

  • Neither the White House nor Google has been more specific about who may have perpetrated the attacks from this provincial capital, which also houses a technical reconnaissance bureau roughly equivalent to the U.S. National Security Agency.

    WSJ: Chefs Who Spy? Tracking Google's Hackers in China

  • "The military is always on the frontline in the conflicts here, " says Josy Palnaya, a Christian leader in Ambon, Maluku's provincial capital.

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  • The teenagers are in a pioneering group of cyber surfers in Kunming, the provincial capital.

    CNN: On-line in Yunnan

  • Last November, several hundred thousand people took to the streets of the provincial capital, Banda Aceh, to demand a vote.

    ECONOMIST: Indonesia

  • Elsewhere on Monday, at least three militants were also killed later when government forces bombed a checkpoint in the town of Jaar, near the provincial capital Zinjibar, which is under their control.

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  • In February 1999 the office that was in charge of compiling and pursuing the investigation of Avtovaz--the MVD headquarters in the provincial capital of Samara--was destroyed by a huge fire.

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  • She was tortured with a hot iron rod, bound, doused in gasoline, then set alight on a pile of car tires and trash in the Western Highlands provincial capital of Mount Hagen, national police spokesman Dominic Kakas said.

    NPR: Accused Witch Burned Alive In Papua New Guinea

  • Many injured residents were sent to the nearby provincial capital of Chengdu, which sustained damage in a stronger 2008 earthquake that killed more than 80, 000 people and revealed the depth of the region's substandard building quality and emergency response efforts.

    WSJ: China Rushes to Show Quick Reaction to Quakes

  • In 2009, Mr Maliki won a landslide in the provincial elections in Shia southern Iraq and in the religiously mixed capital, Baghdad.

    BBC: Sectarian tensions stalk Iraq elections

  • The new capital of the Russian-Belarussian union may be Smolensk, a Russian provincial town half-way between the two countries' capitals.

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  • The group is blamed for a resurgence of sectarian violence including a recent spate of killings in the south-western city of Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan.

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