• Silvinha Oliveira, a 32-year-old fashion entrepreneur, has lived in the Barreira do Vasco favela in the North Zone of Rio since the age of 9.

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  • Galmudug is another, smaller zone that has become a cohesive semi-independent fief, south of Puntland and north of the zone which the ASWJ more or less controls.

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  • Current law allows the trucks only through a 20 mile zone north of the Mexican border.

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  • The fifth-placed team faces a two-leg playoff against the third-placed team in the CONCACAF North American qualifying zone.

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  • As reports suggested that Duncan Smith's leadership manifesto would indicate a desire for closer links with the North American trade zone Nafta, Mr Clarke described his rival's European policy as "a euphemism for leaving the EU".

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  • The South's navy pursued the gunboats, which retreated north of the demarcation zone about 20 minutes after they arrived.

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  • Meanwhile, South Korea says all but seven of its workers have returned from the Kaesong industrial zone in North Korea.

    BBC: US and South Korea wrap up "Foal Eagle" military drills

  • Meanwhile, columns of Pakistani troops in military trucks head in the opposite direction, hauling field guns north toward the conflict zone.

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  • While Asean is already developing a free trade zone with North Asia, Asean officials say there are no plans to extend that to include India.

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  • On the Korean peninsula's east coast, hundreds of South Koreans were peacefully disembarking from their cruise ship to admire Diamond Mountain, just across the Demilitarized Zone in North Korea.

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  • Already, things are shifting in South Korea: the Pentagon announced in June that its 15, 000 troops on the front line along the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea will drop back to a spot a bit closer to (though still north of) Seoul, the South Korean capital.

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  • British and U.S. warplanes also patrol a no-fly zone in the north of Iraq.

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  • More than 50, 000 North Koreans work in the zone, producing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of goods each year.

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  • He also pointed out that Tokyo was some 220km (136 miles) from the affected zone, in the north-east of the country.

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  • Furthermore, because of a reasonable time zone difference between England and North America, many of the matches could be aired during daytime and prime time in the Western Hemisphere which would boost TV ratings, sponsorship dollars, and advertising rates.

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  • On Friday, South Korea announced that it too was withdrawing all of its workers, after the North rejected its offer for talks on the zone.

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  • Malcolm Turnbull, co-chairman of Goldman Sachs Australia (and founder of OzEmail, one of Australia's largest Internet providers), draws the distinction between north-south distance (same time-zone) and east-west distance (different time-zones).

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  • An area in the north of the county is part of a test zone where workers are trying to stop peat erosion.

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  • Further north, Britons watching the debacle in the euro zone are pressing their leaders for a vote on the U.K.'s future in the European Union.

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  • The European Commission is expected to call for part of the North Sea to be declared a no-go zone for cod fishing ahead of its annual round of negotiations between fisheries ministers.

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  • Turmoil in the rump of the euro zone would batter export markets just as the north's firms became less competitive.

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  • Now the concentrated effort against the disease is inside the extended blue restriction zone - some 500 square miles of the North East - where vets, slaughtermen and soldiers operate the most stringent bio-security regime around a sweeping slaughter and culling campaign.

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  • The Great Junction Street zone has had Bernard Street, Commercial Street and North Junction Street added.

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  • But on that fateful Friday, when the North American plate slid over the Pacific plate along a subduction zone running 130km (80 miles) off the Pacific coast of northern Japan, the shock leapt from the first segment to a second and on to a third, extending the fault zone some 400km and increasing its intensity more than 30-fold.

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  • The BBC's Lucy Williamson in Seoul says that about a million soldiers and a million land mines line the Demilitarised Zone, and only a handful of people have crossed from North to South by land in the past few years.

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  • The GGW was conceived by the 11 countries located along the southern border of the Sahara with the goal of containing the desertification of the Sahel zone, which is the transition between the Sahara in the north and the African savannas in the south, and includes parts of the countries of Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Algeria, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea.

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  • Authorities have said a Trans Am registered to the 53-year-old singer veered off a roadway near Tioga, a town about 60 miles north of Dallas where the entertainer lives, and struck several barricades in a construction zone the night of Aug. 7.

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  • As leaders trickled into the European Union's boxy headquarters, Ms. Merkel faced a challenge to placate the euro zone's south, which thought private-sector involvement was dangerous, and its north, which thought it didn't go far enough.

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  • "I remember when only a handful of people came, " says Tran Hong Chi, a guide for the somewhat grisly tours into the Demilitarized Zone or DMZ, a heavily bombed and severely poisoned territory that served as the boundary between north and south Vietnam.

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  • South Korea is concentrating on issues which it hopes may be relatively easier for North Korea to accept, such as setting up a hot-line between commanders on both sides of the demilitarised zone, the mutual notification of military exercises, and exchange visits between officers from both sides.

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