Central Command oversees operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, including the war in Afghanistan.
Visa saw the strongest growth coming from their Central Europe, Middle East, and Africa, which surged 12%.
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Following the mission, Gen Allen served as acting deputy commander of the US Central Command, overseeing American military operations across the Middle East and central Asia.
It needs a stable country at the juncture of Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East.
Petraeus, who is nominated to head the U.S. Central Command in the Middle East, and Lt.
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The report also shows significant increases in Aids-related deaths in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.
Pressure in Central Asia and the Middle East should not reduce the focus in other regions of the world such as in Latin America.
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It will be able to carry military payloads non-stop from Europe to military, commercial, or remote airfields in central Africa or the Middle East.
As commander of Central Command, Petraeus will oversee U.S. military objectives and activities in a broad swath of the Middle East and Central and South Asia.
Of those sales, 58% came from North America, 20% came from Europe, 12.5% from Europe, and the rest from South and Central America and the Middle East.
Cape Town International, Lima Jorge Chavez International, Panama Tocumen and Abu Dhabi International took home the regional prizes for Africa, South America, Central America and the Middle East respectively.
The danger, it is now assumed, lies in what Pentagon officials call an "arc of instability" that runs through the Caribbean Rim, Africa, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Middle East, South Asia and North Korea.
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These musical responses to the worst that the 20th century could throw at the world had a resonance for many of the players, especially those from troubled parts of Russia, Central Asia and the Middle East.
That entails a loss of US jobs, loss of US economic momentum and ultimately, a reduced American stake in global hydrocarbon fundamentals: Music to the ears of conventional gas players in Russia, Central Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.
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Whether or not China is able to avoid the "Malacca trap" by building pipeline and railways across Central Asia to the Middle East, it will still need Dubai as its hub for its growing reach into the Middle East and Africa.
The largest area stretches from Saharan Africa across the Middle East and Central Asia into parts of China.
As in the Middle East and Central Asia, the FARC has a presence in countries such as Ecuador and possibly Bolivia.
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Microsoft, CocaCola, Huawei and BP all have bases in the country, from which they oversee operations in the Middle East and Central Asia.
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The company has operations in the Middle East, Central Asia, the Asian-Pacific region and North America, but China projects account for 83% of revenue.
The intelligence assessment found Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Central and Southeast Asia are most vulnerable to warming-related drought, flooding, extreme weather and hunger, Fingar said.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge remembered the first time they met, at a fundraising dinner for the University of St Andrews at Middle Temple, central London.
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The Bush administration, which has made the spread of democratic institutions in the Middle East a central foreign policy goal, has also expressed concerns about the popularity of Hamas.
Nabucco, a trans-Balkan pipeline which aims to bring Middle Eastern and Central Asian gas to Europe via Turkey's excellent gas infrastructure, will be at the heart of the power struggle.
Maxim's is arguably the most famous dim sum spot in town, a 32-year-old restaurant in the middle of packed Central district that serves classic Hong Kong-style dishes to locals and visiting dignitaries.
In recent years, the Neanderthals - who lived across Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia in Pleistocene times - have come to be rehabilitated amid mounting evidence that their abilities had been underestimated.
David Petraeus, who oversees U.S. operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, including Afghanistan, was in Kyrgyzstan last month, partly to lobby the government to allow the United States to keep using the base.
William Fallon, notes that while Petraeus has thorough experience in a key theater, Iraq, he will have to get up to speed on new areas, including the rest of the Middle East, Central Asia and the Horn of Africa.
He was a case officer for the Central Intelligence Agency in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa and Europe in the 1990s - a position that required exacting care in selecting and recruiting foreigners as agents and sources.
So as far as the Middle East and Central Asia are concerned, a primary lesson of the Cold War relates to the relative weight the US can securely place in its alliance with Israel on the one hand, and its alliance with the Saudis on the other.
Now, our estimate of growth in 2010 is virtually identical to the consensus of private forecasters surveyed by the Blue Chip Economic Indicators and is right smack in the middle of the central tendency of the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee forecast that was released back in November.
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