Mr Hossain's comments followed Unocal's proposal to construct a pipeline connecting its gas fields in eastern Bangladesh to the Indian capital Delhi and the western Indian state of Gujarat.
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.
In Iraq today, in the city of Ramadi, the capital of the western province of Anbar, US military officers were meeting local leaders when insurgents attacked the site with mortars.
Along the once splendid streets of the capital of the Western world, disappointed American tourists in pink sweatshirts wander, unhappy that the travel agency has tricked them yet again: everything in Europe is so dinky, so small, so old!
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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The mausoleum of Galla Placidia, sister of Flavius Honorius, the very man who made Ravenna the capital of the Western Empire.
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.
Rinehart, who lives in Perth the state capital of Western Australia is fifty-eight, a widow, and a mother of four.
The letter (an example of which is attached, as is the list of recipients) was prompted by the recent emergence in Western capital markets of Shariah-Compliant Finance (also marketed as "Islamic finance") and by a lawsuit now before the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia.
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Combined with the fact that the Soviet Union is already profiting handsomely in the current crisis in terms of energy and gold related earnings, Moscow's apparent determination to preserve intimate ties with Iraq should -- at the very least -- temper the Bush Administration's desire to reward the USSR with accelerated Western capital flows, energy-related assistance, and full membership in key international organizations.
The BBC's Paul Welsh in the Macedonian capital, Skopje, says Western diplomats expect some low level violations of the ceasefire, and the real test will be whether any new large scale confrontations break out.
Sinaloa has controlled Guadalajara, which is the capital of the western state of Jalisco, for decades.
On Monday, three suicide-bombers grabbed headlines by targeting two hotels in the capital used by western journalists and contractors.
Afghans in the capital of the western Farah province, meanwhile, buried their friends and loved ones killed in a massive attack on the local government center the day before.
But Iraqi commanders say it has also become a haven for insurgents who have fled the capital and the western insurgent hotbeds of Fallujah and Ramadi to carry their jihad northward.
Yet some of his friends are remarkably sanguine as Ramallah, a West Bank city of about 80, 000, blossoms as the Palestinians' Western-financed administrative capital.
As Kabul fell to the Northern Alliance forces, he was the first CNN correspondent, and one of the first Western reporters, to arrive in the city, entering the Afghan capital on foot.
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Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Shannon and the National Security Council's Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Dan Restrepo, visited the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, on Wednesday to compel the country's recalcitrant democrats to make a deal with the man the latter had lawfully removed from the presidency on June 28th.
As the monsoon clouds hover over the Arabian Sea starting June, they herald the worst of times for commuters in India's financial capital, situated on the country's western coast.
In Anren township, near Chengdu, the capital of the south-western province of Sichuan, a wealthy real-estate developer, Fan Jianchuan, says he is preparing to open another later this month.
Since the 1980's, emerging market economies, like those of China and Russia, have become increasingly sophisticated in the way they finance their respective governments and affiliated companies -- transitioning from reliance on syndicated commercial bank loans and Western government funding vehicles to the private capital markets (i.e. the issuance of stocks and bonds).
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To his credit, a freshman representative from Georgia, Republican Paul Broun, last week convened the first Capitol Hill briefing for House members and staff concerning this deeply worrisome Trojan horse in Western capital markets, drawing on research developed by and for the Center for Security Policy.
One of the oldest cities in the world, Athens is the capital of Ancient and modern Greece and is considered the birthplace of Western civilisation.
More generally, China's banks should be better insulated from the global credit crunch than Western banks because the country's system is funded through deposits rather than capital markets.
ECONOMIST: China is pretty well placed to cushion a global downturn
The capital, Delhi, and the western city of Mumbai were largely unaffected by the strike and financial markets were open.
But international pressure is unlikely to sway a regime which on Saturday swept to a crucial victory in local election in the Western province, an area that includes the capital, Colombo.
Finally, the fact that the Chinese government is so anxious to reinvigorate Western capital and technology flows indicates just how important a lever such assistance can be if managed properly in promoting real, systemic reform.
The men arrived in the capital Saturday, after a 13-hour drive through the mountains organized by Western embassies.
And it seems likely that large capital inflows contributed to the overvaluation of Western assets.
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First, as the examples of China, Poland, Romania and others have demonstrated, greater integration into the global economy and large-scale infusions of Western capital, technology and investment into command economies do not automatically assure a transition into market-based reforms and necessary levels of political liberalization.
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