With the world-famous Carnival of Venice in full swing on the eastern side of northern Italy, the capital of the north-west sent off the Games with its own decadent party featuring acrobats, clowns -- and a touch of burlesque.
I've been able to get to within about 10 miles of Kirkuk -- able to see the oil capital of the north: a burning flare, a harmless flare, burning off gases from one of the major oil fields on the outskirts of Kirkuk.
My take: Canada and the U.S. should welcome the injection of foreign capital into the North American oil and gas sector.
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The Kikuyu-led party backing his rival, the incumbent president, Mwai Kibaki, was most blatant in ensuring that his tally of votes in the Kikuyu heartland north of the capital, Nairobi, was inflated.
Between the giant screen gaming demos, the shiny new hardware and the ever-present booth babes, the Electronic Entertainment Expo may well be the short attention span capital of North America at the moment.
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They are currently fighting on two fronts, one just north of the capital Kabul the other in the country's mountainous north-east.
The effort, which lasted from Saturday to Monday, occurred near Mukhisa on the northeastern outskirts of Baquba -- capital of Diyala -- the sprawling province north and east of Baghdad that has become a refuge for al Qaeda in Iraq and a major battleground in the Iraq war.
Although Labour has done well in a town often regarded as the capital of north Wales, its majorities have been smaller than those typical of its industrial seats in the south.
The ban was imposed after last week's bombing of a Shiite holy site north of the capital.
Workers at several ailing factories in the province of Qazvin, north-west of the capital, have been told not to return to work until further notice.
The Taleban still control the hills to the north of the capital, above the Bagram airbase.
The fact is that this congressman from the smog capital of North America has a lot of clout in Washington and the Administration has been placed in a difficult position by his very public, very strident stance.
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Frepaso is strong in Buenos Aires city and in the wider province, and in the big city of Rosario, north-west of the capital.
Drive-by shooters armed with pistols fitted with silencers shot and killed a police officer while he was driving his car in the town of Tarmiyah, 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of the capital.
Both the Bolivian capital of La Paz, 300km to the north, or Arica on the Chilean coast, 180km to the west, are possible starting points for a Parinacota climb.
Salvage workers said they had reached the basement of the building in Savar, a commercial hub about 10 miles north of the capital Dhaka, and were unlikely to recover significant numbers of new bodies.
In the largely Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah in the capital's north, a car bomb struck near a military convoy, killing three people, including two soldiers, according to police.
The tally of wounded included 146 in Baghdad, 70 in Kut, 49 in Kirkuk and 21 in Diyala, Salaheddin, Anbar and at the military post north of the capital, according to police.
Peshawar is the capital of North West Frontier Province, where a coordinated suicide attack targeted an upscale hotel earlier this week, killing nine people.
"They'll just love us in Pyongang, " said McCain, joking about a potential book signing tour that would take him to the capital of communist North Korea.
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Clashes between government forces and rebels were also reported in the north-eastern and north-western districts of the capital, Damascus.
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In the wake of Friday's release of thousands of barrels of oil from the Pegasus pipeline, black crude was seen soaking lawns and streaming down residential streets in the community north of the state capital, Little Rock.
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The raid was preceded by an attack on the local police station, when two vehicles were blown up, in the town of Jama'are, some 125 miles (200km) north of the state capital, Bauchi.
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Minutes later, a Sunni was killed and six others were wounded after bomb struck Sunnis near a mosque in the Rashidiyah area, 20 kilometers north of the capital.
The latest violence resurrects the conflict that erupted in early 1997 in the same area north of the provincial capital Pontianak between Dayaks and Madurese, whose roots lie in the island of Madura off the northeast coast of Java.
According to the North's official Korean Central News Agency, a delegation from the Laotian capital of Vientiane visited North Korea on May 20.
Former US President Bill Clinton, who now serves as the UN Special Envoy to Haiti, also attended the launch of the park in the impoverished north of Haiti, some 160km (100 miles) from the capital, Port-au-Prince.
And while it appears that Saudi terrorist cells are well funded, well equipped and well trained, their actions have so far been limited to a small part of the vast kingdom, stretching north from the capital to the arch-conservative central region of Qasim.
And the Islamists have hit back, seizing the central town of Diabaly on Monday, 350km (220 miles) north-east of the capital, Bamako.
The agency says there has been "relative calm" in North Kivu this week, allowing officials to develop a displaced persons camp more than 9 miles from Kibati, on the outskirts of Goma, the North Kivu capital.
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