He also said Thursday afternoon that he would declare the area a catastrophe zone.

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He has asked Thailand to withdraw troops from the south, to give an amnesty for insurgents and to declare the area a special administrative zone.

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Ireland this week became the first euro-area member to declare that it would bust the stability-pact ceiling on budget deficits of 3% of GDP next year: it expects a deficit closer to 6%.

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Irene is forecasted to hit the New York Metropolitan area early Sunday, forcing Governor Cuomo and Mayor Bloomberg to declare a state of emergency for the city and state of New York.

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One area in which the President-elect can do immediate, immeasurable good is to vigorously declare for a strong and stable dollar.

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Legal documents related to both properties - in a regeneration area of Margate - showed Emanuel as trustee and Ezekiel as the buyer, which he failed to declare to the council.

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Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski again threatened to declare a formal state of war in Macedonia after ethnic-Albanian rebels, seeking to widen the conflict to an area hitherto unaffected, killed five government soldiers north-west of Skopje, the capital.

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