Quova claims to be able to identify web users' country of origin with 98% accuracy, and their city of origin (at least for users in the United States) 85% of the time.

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Recently, a number of senior European politicians have spoken out against allowing Turkey, a Muslim state, into the EU. In Rotterdam, the local government is now explicitly trying to change the racial profile of the Dutch city, whose population is projected to be 57% of foreign origin by 2017.

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Mr. HANDEL: El Alto has the largest community of people of indigenous origin in Latin America concentrated in a city which is poor.

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The typical Viennese coffee house -- an elegant institution with high ceilings, marble-top tables and a stack of newspapers to make one linger over an impeccable black brew with a customary glass of water -- may be more famously known than its Ukrainian cousin, but to trace back the origin of the communal coffee space, you have to go to Lviv, a Medieval city in western Ukraine.

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