The Geopark extends roughly from Durness to Ullapool, and the landscape it contains has inspired many who have explored its 480 square miles of mountains, peatland, beaches, forest and coast.

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The organisation still has several thousand fighters, many of whom are based in the Qandil mountains of the Kurdish region of northern Iraq.

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For starters, Canada has avoided many of the problems that currently bedevil the U.S.--mountains of public debt, a banking system in crisis, the housing debacle and a weakened currency.

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