The hut stood on its own patch of land, which was walled off by stakes, stones brought from the shore of Lake Onega and piled up haphazardly, and rusty sheets of roof iron, probably carried here from some distant town by a gale.

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When French troops moved into Kidal, a distant and largely Tuareg town this week, they took the town without Malian troops.

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According to GasBuddy.com, a site that helps users find the lowest gas prices, certain areas such as distant suburbs or less-affluent parts of town tend to have cheaper gas prices.

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