Central Command oversees operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, including the war in Afghanistan.
Following the mission, Gen Allen served as acting deputy commander of the US Central Command, overseeing American military operations across the Middle East and central Asia.
The largest area stretches from Saharan Africa across the Middle East and Central Asia into parts of China.
As in the Middle East and Central Asia, the FARC has a presence in countries such as Ecuador and possibly Bolivia.
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Microsoft, CocaCola, Huawei and BP all have bases in the country, from which they oversee operations in the Middle East and Central Asia.
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The company has operations in the Middle East, Central Asia, the Asian-Pacific region and North America, but China projects account for 83% of revenue.
As commander of Central Command, Petraeus will oversee U.S. military objectives and activities in a broad swath of the Middle East and Central and South Asia.
The intelligence assessment found Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Central and Southeast Asia are most vulnerable to warming-related drought, flooding, extreme weather and hunger, Fingar said.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge remembered the first time they met, at a fundraising dinner for the University of St Andrews at Middle Temple, central London.
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The Bush administration, which has made the spread of democratic institutions in the Middle East a central foreign policy goal, has also expressed concerns about the popularity of Hamas.
Nabucco, a trans-Balkan pipeline which aims to bring Middle Eastern and Central Asian gas to Europe via Turkey's excellent gas infrastructure, will be at the heart of the power struggle.
Maxim's is arguably the most famous dim sum spot in town, a 32-year-old restaurant in the middle of packed Central district that serves classic Hong Kong-style dishes to locals and visiting dignitaries.
In recent years, the Neanderthals - who lived across Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia in Pleistocene times - have come to be rehabilitated amid mounting evidence that their abilities had been underestimated.
David Petraeus, who oversees U.S. operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, including Afghanistan, was in Kyrgyzstan last month, partly to lobby the government to allow the United States to keep using the base.
William Fallon, notes that while Petraeus has thorough experience in a key theater, Iraq, he will have to get up to speed on new areas, including the rest of the Middle East, Central Asia and the Horn of Africa.
So as far as the Middle East and Central Asia are concerned, a primary lesson of the Cold War relates to the relative weight the US can securely place in its alliance with Israel on the one hand, and its alliance with the Saudis on the other.
Now, our estimate of growth in 2010 is virtually identical to the consensus of private forecasters surveyed by the Blue Chip Economic Indicators and is right smack in the middle of the central tendency of the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee forecast that was released back in November.
It is strategically located between key markets in Europe, the Middle East, Russia and Central Asia.
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Visa saw the strongest growth coming from their Central Europe, Middle East, and Africa, which surged 12%.
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One important new route is the Nabucco pipeline which aims to connect Europe with gasfields in the Middle East, Caucasus and Central Asia via the Balkans and Turkey.
Their documentary examines the notorious case of five teenage boys from Harlem who were sent to prison for the 1989 assault and rape of a white middle-class woman in Central Park, a crime to which a known serial rapist confessed many years later.
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It needs a stable country at the juncture of Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East.
Petraeus, who is nominated to head the U.S. Central Command in the Middle East, and Lt.
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That house, a middle-class home near the Central Intelligence Agency in McLean, Va.
The report also shows significant increases in Aids-related deaths in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.
Pressure in Central Asia and the Middle East should not reduce the focus in other regions of the world such as in Latin America.
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It will be able to carry military payloads non-stop from Europe to military, commercial, or remote airfields in central Africa or the Middle East.
Of those sales, 58% came from North America, 20% came from Europe, 12.5% from Europe, and the rest from South and Central America and the Middle East.
This was visible across a very much broader region, taking in most of Europe (except Spain and Portugal), the Middle East, as well as central and northern Asia.
Closer EU contacts with Iran are seen in European capitals as crucial for bolstering security in and around the Middle East, the Gulf and Central Asia including Afghanistan.
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