With Mr Haider personally kept out of national power in Vienna and restricted to his governorship of the southern province of Carinthia, he was increasingly reduced to the margin.

ECONOMIST: Austria's general election

Serbian forces were driven out in the summer of 1999 and the UN took over the administration of the province.

BBC: Kosovo profile

On Thursday, Afghan and NATO forces pushed the Taliban out of several villages in southern Afghanistan they claimed to have seized, the governor of Kandahar province said.

CNN: Children among dead in Afghan suicide blast

Pakistan's five tests, when they came, were reported to have been carried out underground in the remote Chagai area in the south-western province of Baluchistan, which borders Iran and Afghanistan.

ECONOMIST: India and Pakistan

It has risen fairly rapidly since then as details of the Hangzhou deal come out, and also as a result of a much bigger deal in Shandong province announced in late July, as well as prospects for a 100, 000 vehicle EV Hangzhou rental program in addition to the 20, 000 vehicle leasing program discussed above.

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