Iran might find an Aegean island a handy way of foiling NATO's planned missile-defence shield.
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She had only arrived in the holiday island a few days' earlier to work in a bar.
Private home building on 640-acre Staniel Cay is flourishing and gives some parts of the island a ramshackle appearance.
Having not been seen for 20 years before it was spotted on the island a decade ago, ornithologists had long suspected that it was extinct.
Jersey politicians have rejected a plan to make a referendum question on government reform on the island a "simple" yes or no ballot.
In case you were on a remote island a couple of days ago, Apple dedicated a few hours to the iPhone 5 with an event in chilly northern California.
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Cities have been cleaned up, and previously lacking international five-star facilities are sprouting up, helping to make the island a more potent competitor in the regional meeting and event business.
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National Security Minister Peter Bunting told reporters that the law reform act will result in a "vastly accelerated number of successful prosecutions" of swindlers who have made the island a center for cross-border telemarketing fraud.
An underwater fiber cable linking Cuba and Venezuela has given the island a hard connection to the internet since 2011, but reports have said that only government bodies from both countries have used the line.
Here is how Island works: When a broker or trader who uses Island places a buy order, it is routed first to Island to check for matches.
One example is Enderby Island cattle, rare New Zealand cows rescued from a remote island almost a decade ago, which have been cloned using eggs from more common relatives.
At any rate, somehow the Rhode Island taxing authorities took note of the fact that Lois was filing a federal tax return using a Rhode Island address and not filing a Rhode Island return.
In contrast, Japan is a small island with a population of just over 127 million.
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From there, take a day trip to Seili, a beautiful island with a less than beautiful history.
The space will have Wenge wood cabinets, backlit glass shoe and purse racks and a center island with a white leather top.
Mr Arafat's battered headquarters was described by a BBC correspondent at the scene, Barbara Plett, as resembling a lonely island in a sea of rubble.
"Black Rock, " follows three childhood friends, played by Kate Bosworth, Lake Bell and Ms. Aselton, as they head out to a remote island for a girls reunion weekend.
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What was once a prosperous island considered a gateway to three continents, in the near term, will be reduced to just a couple of notches above a barter economy.
During the recent redesign of their 1907 yellow-stucco home in Philadelphia, Katy Friedland, a 35-year-old mother of two boys, ages 5 and 2, felt a kitchen island was a must.
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For those of you without kids or who live on a remote island without a broadband connection, Minecraft is a legitimate worldwide phenomenon, a building block video game that launched in 2009 and now has over 8 million paying customers and a total of 40 million users worldwide, its own conference, and a legion of YouTube stars.
Every species on the island retreated to a small islet offshore, Boatswainbird Island, except for a few individuals that held on to the most inaccessible cliffs, and the phenomenally scrappy wide-awake terns that visit the southern plains to breed.
They run a firm called Wired Island from a two-story building off the Leeward Highway in Providenciales.
Other highlights are hiking day trips to Flores Island, a volcanic First Nation island nearby, and Zodiac boat trips to hot springs.
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This so-called East Side Access will bring about 160, 000 passengers a day from Long Island to a new station in Queens' Sunnyside neighborhood, then about five more miles to the new, eight-track Grand Central hub.
About 2, 500 people currently live on Treasure Island, a man-made island in the middle of San Francisco Bay that dates back to the late 1930s and is connected to San Francisco and Oakland by the Bay Bridge.
Combining a couple of days in Santiago with a visit to Easter Island is a perfect weeklong trip, and while it can be easier to get to Lima, the city is not nearly as attractive a destination.
Austin, essentially, reaps the benefits of being a deep blue, Democratic island in a red-state sea.
It does give players more to do by letting them go questing on a heretofore mist-shrouded island with a new race called the Pandaren, an anthropomorphised race of giant pandas.
Thompson has said that Askernish could eventually contribute as much as a million pounds a year to the local economy, a big deal on an island with a population of eighteen hundred and falling.
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