• Italy used dual nationality as a way to fight its declining population in the 1990s.

    BBC: The equation of dual citizenship

  • The setting is Tokyo, brooding sumptuously, and the filmmaker is Abbas Kiarostami, an Iranian by birth and nationality but a distinguished citizen of world cinema.

    WSJ: Film Review: Like Someone in Love

  • But those who doubted his motives for forsaking his Canadian nationality for a British passport in 1995 have been silenced by his dedication to Davis Cup.

    BBC: Greg Rusedski

  • Deportation proceedings also have started or are planned against three others: an imam of Saudi nationality, a militant Islamist from Tunisia and an imam from Turkey, the statement said.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • The new RFID tag-toting documents will store all of your personal data, including name, address, nationality, a picture, a digitized fingerprint and just about every other thing crooks would need to take your identity for a joyride.

    ENGADGET: RFID Passports coming to the US in August

  • Size and nationality make a difference, too.

    ECONOMIST: Business in Africa

  • His main reason was that, with his sort of itinerary, American nationality quickly becomes a liability.

    ECONOMIST: The face of Mammon

  • And pinning a nationality on investors is also brave in these days of easy and massive cross-border capital flows.

    ECONOMIST: Cross-border property deals

  • This could easily apply to a national group, an ethnic group, a nationality, but it all depends on how whoever defines it to mean.

    NPR: Words Matter: Terms of Global Conflict Debated

  • In 2009 a Facebook campaign calling for Cornish to be registered as a nationality in the 2011 Census was backed by more than 3, 000 people.

    BBC: Census forms

  • Previously members of the International Brigades would have been required to give up their other nationality to accept a Spanish passport, the Associated Press reported.

    BBC: Passport offer for Spanish exiles

  • But in October Trevor Brooking, the association's director of football development, said that availability and suitability and not necessarily nationality would be a factor in who replaces Italian Capello.

    BBC: Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp in hunt for England job

  • When I interviewed her after her press conference today, I asked Lagarde whether she felt uncomfortable that her nationality had been a large factor in her getting the job.

    BBC: The IMF and Madame Managing Director

  • Half soccer pub, half punk rock bar, Churchill's is 100% one of the most interesting spots in the city, an establishment that straddles lines of income, race and nationality - in a lot of ways, a microcosm for Miami itself.

    BBC: Multicultural Miami

  • The United Nations Convention on Refugees - which defines a refugee as someone with a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion - is 51 years old.

    BBC: EU backs action on illegal migrants

  • The number of Dutch citizens holding a second nationality, for instance, almost tripled to 1.2m between 1995 and 2010, with newborns accounting for a significant share of the growth.

    ECONOMIST: Dual citizenship

  • That proof of residence is a critical document, and for many the only form of identification: Besides serving as proof of nationality and getting you a new roof over your head, it can help you get discounted provisions at government-run stores, a phone and utility hookup and a voter registration card.

    FORBES: Billionaires List

  • We learn today that ministers will be examining whether GPs should be obliged to check passports to assess the nationality of patients - a policing job that many doctors see as contradictory to their caring role.

    BBC: The Queen��s Speech: Power and Majesty

  • Of the multitude of boxes a person is put in over the course of his or her life--race, nationality, economic status, age--gender is a constant that we carry with us from our first breath.

    FORBES: Views on News

  • By seeking to toughen its nationality laws, the Netherlands is bucking a global trend.

    ECONOMIST: Dual citizenship

  • Gonzalez's request must still be sent to Washington for approval, at which point he would receive a certificate of loss of nationality.

    NPR: Cuban Spy Unrepentant, But Hopes For Better Ties

  • Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic has taken over Mr Dalli's duties on an interim basis until a new commissioner of Maltese nationality is appointed.

    BBC: John Dalli row: EU's Barroso denies ousting colleague

  • Asking a U.S. company to filter access to a site based on a Web surfer's nationality is "very naive, " Yang said in the interview.

    CNN: Yahoo disputes French order on Nazi memorabilia

  • Ms Williams, who had both British and South African nationality, was described by her sister as a woman who was "passionate" about helping Afghanistan's people.

    BBC: Shot Gayle 'would forgive killer'

  • "People who believe that he did not know his mother's nationality are naive, " said Yousri Fouad, a taxi driver.

    CNN: Egyptian candidate's maternal ties may disqualify him

  • The three injured crew members were taken by ambulance to a hospital in La Palma and the nationality of only one of them was immediately known: Greek.

    WSJ: Cruise Ship Lifeboat Accident Kills Five in Spain

  • For another problem with Mr Maroni's scheme is that many immigrants cannot be sent home, either because their nationality is untraceable or because Italy does not have a repatriation deal with their countries.

    ECONOMIST: Law and order in Italy

  • When a law was passed recently permitting them dual nationality, hardly anyone applied.

    ECONOMIST: The tragedy of Elian

  • You may assume my race or nationality by my language, but you know there is a chance of being wrong.

    FORBES: Enders Game, Orson Scott Card, and People who Hide Behind Pen Names

  • So if things get to the point where people are seriously considering changing nationality to reduce their tax bill, then that is a symptom of a tax system that has become seriously dysfunctional and in urgent need of reform.

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