United Nations personnel attempting to deploy east towards the diamond fields have been met by armed RUF men and forced to withdraw.
When finally the winds took pity on her, they blew her south-east towards the coast, where the captain sighted a series of natural harbours and weighed anchor.
About 275km further south, after Highway 1 swings east towards the Sea of Cortez, the road reaches the town of Loreto, home to some of the most beautiful and unspoilt beaches in Baja.
The problem is that all of Israel's radar systems are facing east - towards Iran.
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But, despite his mild manner, Mr Cem has been toughening Turkey's foreign policy towards east and north.
From here I can see half the length of the grassy drive as it winds through the tall skeletal limes on either side, until it disappears right, curving downhill towards East Lodge and the lane and the outside world.
Syracuse and Pittsburgh in their own right have a combination of variables (both historically, performance-wise in at least one of the revenue sports, and plentiful alumni base in large market cities like New York) which made them attractive for promotion away from the weak Big East football conference towards the ACC.
And then our attentions turned to the Carolinas as the storm began moving towards the East Coast.
His teacher made him start at daybreak, with sun salutations towards the east until he was sweaty and hot.
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He lived in Spitafields, an area towards the East side of London teeming with traders who work in nearby banks, and arty-types.
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Proceeds will be donated towards the East African drought disaster.
Bosnia and Kosovo both wanted foreign troops as a protection against Serbia, and East Timor had similar feelings towards Indonesia.
Tricky as it was, and still is, the then West German government had a stake in and a will towards reintegrating the East.
Hurricane Sandy is now heading towards the US East Coast - where states including North Carolina, Virginia, Connecticut and Delaware are on emergency alert.
Skywatchers in Leeds will first have the chance to spy the space station at 1716GMT on 2 January in the south, moving towards the south east.
The President asked the Prime Minister to take steps to build confidence for proximity talks so that progress can be made towards comprehensive Middle East peace.
It appears that the idea of dialogue with Iran should rather be seen as a proposal for a more pragmatic US foreign policy towards the Middle East in general, and in particular the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Turkish officials, however, have been careful to explain that their renewed interest in the Muslim east does not mean a chill towards the West.
With the latest quarter in the books and showing some serious improvements, we would have expected East West to be more aggressive towards the third quarter.
Beyond the capital, rugged Alpine mountains rise to the north and west, the Pannonian plains stretch off towards Hungary in the east and the the Adriatic Sea lies to the south.
And the patterns of North-East Asian trade are shifting, towards the rest of Asia, Africa and Latin America, where the widening of the Panama Canal will have a bigger impact than the melting Arctic.
And I wonder if the latest crisis in America may also push people in the Gulf States and the East away from the sacred dollar and towards the Euro.
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Their Dornier 288 plane tracked the edge of the plume over East Anglia and the North Sea, and towards the Dutch coastline.
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In terms of the geographical spread of jobs for new graduates, there is a strong bias towards London and the south-east of England.
The east of Libya also has a history of hostility towards authority.
Mr Hoffman, who helps run a terrorism research centre at the University of St Andrew's in Scotland, has argued that ultra-rightist militias in America, millenarian sects in Japan and Islamic fundamentalists in the Middle East are all representatives of the same trend: towards a sort of insatiable fanaticism which has no agenda other than destruction and revenge.
Mike Gapes, deputy chairman of Labour friends for Israel, said Mr Sharon's plan gives "the beginnings of a possibility" of some movement towards a two state solution for the Middle East.
Yet another part of me knew that these events in Libya and elsewhere in the Middle East are part of a broader and totally predictable movement towards freedom and liberation of the human spirit.
To the east of Bethlehem, chalky hills sink below sea level towards the Dead Sea and the ancient city of Jericho, immortalized in the Bible for its walls that tumbled under the blasts of trumpets (Joshua 6:20).
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