• The new standards specify that U.S. laws apply to Secret Service personnel when traveling, rendering invalid the excuse that specific activity is legal in the foreign country, the officials said.

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  • Since she came to power in 2006, the president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has brought stability and rapid economic growth, but her country faces a dilemma on the involvement of foreign multinationals in the country.

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  • But what if the Clyde were in a foreign country to the Ministry of Defence on Whitehall?

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  • His successor is expected to be Isaf's last commander, who will oversee the withdrawal of most of the foreign troops in the country.

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  • If there's a darker note here, it's that Congress remains uninterested in keeping those foreign students in the country once we've invested in their training -- witness the annual cap of H-1B work visas at 65, 000.

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  • Syria has for some time blamed much of the violence on foreign-backed "terrorist groups" and UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said last month that Damascus estimated that the number of foreign fighters in the country was into the thousands.

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  • Thousands of federal government job openings are posted daily on the Internet in locations across the country as well as in foreign countries.

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  • Mexico's constitution contains many provisions to protect the country from foreigners, including foreigners legally resident in the country and even foreign-born people who have become naturalized Mexican citizens.

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  • The national tourist board, alarmed by the slump in bookings, has been flying in foreign journalists to show that the country is safe for foreigners.

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  • Each story in the collection took place in a different foreign country.

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  • Some of this might have been to cater to the small number of tourists, diplomats and foreign businesspeople in the country.

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  • Mr Murdoch reckons that of the 50-odd foreign drug companies in the country, only four are generating a reasonable return on their investment today.

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  • Mr. ROLAND BUERK (BBC): Well, according to the government, there are around 1, 400 foreign students in the country's madrassas.

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  • And as of 2002, some 3, 400 German companies accounted for nearly 800, 000 jobs in the U.S. At the same time, nearly 1, 400 U.S. companies generated 475, 000 jobs in Germany, a quarter of all jobs provided by foreign companies in the country.

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  • France will begin to reduce its troop levels in Mali next month in an effort to have West African forces, with the support of the United Nations, take over and maintain security in the country, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said earlier this week.

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  • This was the third foreign country it entered in the 1950s (after Canada and Britain).

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  • Nevertheless, a final joint statement set out several points of agreement, including the rejection of foreign intervention in the conflict-stricken country.

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  • The shadow home secretary also called for the creation of a "dedicated UK Border Police" in order to "prevent foreign terror suspects from entering the country in the first place".

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  • Not only would I have had to pause or put the kibosh my 30-day trial run with the BlackBerry Z10, but I'm also on the other side of the world in a foreign country.

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  • But the seizure of seven foreign workers in the north of the country makes Sunday's raid one of the most significant in that region in recent memory.

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  • It also found that the willingness to invest was related to the difference in corruption levels between the country of the foreign investor and that of the host country.

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  • Reverse the analogy and you see that living in a foreign country can evoke many of the emotions of childhood: novelty, surprise, anxiety, relief, powerlessness, frustration, irresponsibility.

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  • Daily Times too feels that the "economy, particularly energy, needs immediate attention" and notes that "terrorism will remain a great impediment in persuading capital, domestic and foreign, to invest in the country".

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  • One of the largest is how it will dismantle the capital controls it imposed in 2008 to prevent foreign creditors departing the country with a large chunk of Iceland's GDP.

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  • Critics claim the mechanism is tantamount to German taxpayers funding foreign governments in breach of the country's constitution.

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  • Panama's import tariffs are among the lowest in Latin America, and the country has received foreign direct investment worth nearly 9% of GDP, the largest share on the continent.

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  • Colombian officials were clearly aware of the potential fallout in this case, so the country's foreign minister was dispatched to Cuba.

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  • He was the first of many foreign filmmakers to fall in love with the country.

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  • The tragedy has shocked Bangladesh and the world, putting pressure on the government and foreign brands to improve safety conditions in the country's 5, 000 factories.

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  • The entire tragedy has shocked Bangladesh and the world, putting pressure on the government and foreign brands to improve safety conditions in the country's 5, 000 factories.

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