The artist was born to a poor Jewish family in Vitebsk in the western region of Russia known as the Pale.
Yet the war in the western region of Darfur, which reached its most violent stage as the CPA was being finalised, has eaten up most of the foreign diplomatic and financial resources that were promised to bolster the north-south agreement.
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The Luo heartland is in the western Nyanza region, but they have a significant presence in the key urban centres.
The opposing left-leaning Social Democratic Party, which has worked in coalition with the CDU as the ruling party in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania region, strengthened in the election.
Security Council an update on conditions in the western Sudan region, revisiting a report he gave a year ago.
Mr Nkomo was a member of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (Zapu), which formed a unity government with Zanu-PF in 1987 to end conflict in the western Matabeleland region.
Chad, which is rich in oil, has been hit by the conflict in the neighbouring Sudanese western Darfur region, with hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing across the border.
They argue that their own research in the western Hudson Bay region carried out earlier this year indicated that bear numbers were increasing rather than declining.
South Africa has increased the basic daily wage of farm workers by 52% following a violent strike in the wine-producing Western Cape region, the labour minister has said.
Sharing cramped geographic quarters with Iran, Russia, Georgia, and Armenia is no easy task, yet Azeris in this Muslim-majority country enjoy one of the most pro-Western, liberalized societies in the region (consider that women gained the right to vote in pre-Soviet Azerbaijan in 1919, narrowly beating out the enactment of the Nineteenth Amendment).
"It's a lot easier to do business in Kazakhstan than Russia, " says a Western diplomat in the region.
In the beautiful, but poor, Asturias region in north-western Spain, the subsidy underwrites production of coal at seven times the world price.
The Foreign Office has also advised vigilance in Libya following French military intervention in Mali saying there was "a possibility of retaliatory attacks targeting Western interests in the region".
The United Arab Emirates is a major oil exporter and a key Western ally in the region.
ConocoPhillips has substantial positions in gas plays in the Eagle Ford and Bakken shales, and alongside ExxonMobil in the Horn River region of western Canada.
The UN, Western governments and those in the region have a moral duty not to give up trying to bring Somalis together.
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In 1994, more than 120 people were killed by an earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale which struck in the Mascara region of western Algeria.
Alleged crimes in the region stem from a brutal counter-insurgency campaign the Sudanese government conducted after rebels began an uprising in the Darfur region of western Sudan in 2003.
The deal digs Mr Albanese out of a hole the size of Tom Price, the huge iron-ore complex in the Pilbara region of Western Australia in which Chinalco stands to take a stake.
As for Mr Bashir, he will feel that the vote is at least a partial vindication of his stance against the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has indicted him for war crimes over the conflict in the country's western region of Darfur.
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Spanghero is a major employer in the south-western Castelnaudary region, which has been hit by high unemployment, and there has been a big local outcry about the impact if the firm were to close permanently, the BBC's Hugh Schofield, in Paris, reports.
Look for the addition of the IMF in the alphabet soup equation as western markets and economies hinge upon success in the region.
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Until recently Ram Krishna Khodpe and his four brothers were eking out a meager living cultivating cotton on their 5-acre farm in the semiarid region of Jalgaon in India's western state of Maharashtra.
The country is key to western plans about oil pipelines in the region.
About 16km east of Ventimiglia, San Remo is the most well-known city in the Riviera dei Fiori and marks the western boundary of the region.
Dr. Noor Jehan Panezai, MP, who represents the region in Western Pakistan where the pipeline will run, welcomes the plan as an employment package for her constituents.
Mr. HOLMES: My concern is if you add enough extra freshwater to the north Atlantic, you could slow down or even shut down the circulation which would potentially have dramatic impacts on climate, such as a cooling in the North Atlantic region in Western Europe.
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The advantage of Georgia is that it is seen as the most pro-Western and business-friendly country in the region.
Shipping companies must ensure that their ships rigorously apply the IMO guidance and industry-developed Best Management Practices in their entirety, so that, when venturing into the western Indian Ocean region, they comply with all the recommended measures: no ship is invulnerable, in particular those with relatively low freeboards and slow steaming speeds.
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In Yemen, Ahmed Issa majored in French at Dhamar University, near his home region of Wasab, in the central western part of the country.
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