Its an issue that involves both first world countries and third world countries.
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"I think in Africa, mobile TV has a better chance of succeeding than in first-world countries, " DSTV Mobile chief executive Francois Theron told CNN before the ruling was announced.
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Clean renewables can meet at least 99% of our energy needs (especially when combined with conservation and efficiency measures to bring wasteful U.S. consumption down to levels of other first-world countries that use half as much energy per capita).
At the outbreak of the first world war, only 62 independent countries existed in the entire globe.
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Last year, Japan and South Korea became the first countries to co-host the World Cup finals, but after the tournament Blatter said Fifa would discourage joint bids in the future.
The first concerned one of most powerful countries in the world, the U.S., and the last concerned one of the weakest, Slovakia.
The vote's absence is easily explained: though macho but egalitarian New Zealand led the way in 1893, few countries let women vote till after the first world war.
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Poor countries now have easier access to first-world technology.
For many of the founders, who come from countries around the world, this is their first voyage on a ship.
On March 28th, China Eastern Airlines was due to fly into Delhi from Beijing, inaugurating the first ever direct air link between the world's two largest countries.
First launched in 1956 as a means of uniting European countries after World War II, the latter has been running for longer than all three of the former, combined.
Libya, Tunisia and Egypt are the other three countries bidding to become the First African host of the World Cup, the winners will be announced by Fifa on 15 May in Zurich.
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) was among the first rich-world central banks to start raising interest rates after virtually all countries had slashed them during the crisis.
Last year, PTC supported over 100 teams around the world, even helping to start up a few new FIRST programs in countries like China and Romania from scratch.
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Egypt is one of five African countries bidding to become the continent's first host of the World Cup, Fifa have already been to South Africa, Morocco, Libya and Tunisia.
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The first is the ever-growing demand for coffee all over the world, especially as more countries develop a strong, robust middle class that requires coffee to function.
Ministers claim proudly that Britain is holding the first auction in the world for third-generation mobile phone licences, and that many other countries are studying Britain's approach.
Six of these countries stand to have properties inscribed on the World Heritage List for the first time during the forthcoming session: Barbados, Jamaica, Micronesia, Palau, Congo, and the United Arab Emirates.
The National Theatre's live broadcasts, first introduced in 2009, are now shown in more than 700 cinemas in 22 countries around the world.
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The Institute's regional report on Latin America and the Caribbean 2001 (Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries), is the first in a series examining the state of education around the world.
In a report published Thursday by the World Economic Forum and the French business school INSEAD, Sweden placed first in a global ranking of countries in terms of their readiness for tech business, compared with a second place ranking in 2009.
In 2008, Cameroon was among the first African countries to contribute to the OneGeology initiative, which aims to make a single trans-national geological world map accessible online.
Asked about his June 4 speech in Cairo to the Muslim world, Obama called it a first step in the process of improving U.S. relations with Muslim countries.
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