But the findings are significant to any region with air quality issues.
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From there, it will be able to fan out and patrol the region from the air.
The ministry did say air force operations are continuing, including in the Tessalit region, where close to 100 air sorties were carried out this week.
Last month, the Russians, driven by concerns about Islamic extremists and the growing influence of the U.S. in the region, moved into an air base about 15 miles from the U.S. base.
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However, he added that this action would not take the form of large scale air strikes in the region.
Officials said the division's 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry encountered a large Iraqi ground force, but a sandstorm in the region prevented troops from calling in air cover.
Colder than normal weather is likely on tap for at least another week, as air flows into the region from the north, instead of the south, said Dunham, the meteorologist.
Raytheon is marketing its Patriot air defense system throughout the region.
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Analogue channels will be switched off region by region and replaced with free-to-air digital TV and radio services.
Late that morning, as the mercury hit the mid-90s and air conditioners cranked on across the region, electrical grid operators anxiously watched the demand needle.
Air traffic to and from the region has also been severely disrupted and nearly 14, 000 flights were cancelled, potentially hurting airlines that were already struggling in the weak economy.
Cohen said the decision Sunday to send U.S. helicopter gunships and short-range missiles to the region is an escalation of the existing allied air campaign, not a move toward putting troops into the field.
Authorities, under fire for responding too slowly to two major earthquakes in 1999, said they had rushed mobile hospitals, prefabricated homes, food and blankets to the region and set up makeshift, open-air first aid posts to treat the injured.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has singled out the greater Salt Lake region as having the nation's worst air for much of January, when an icy fog smothers mountain valleys for days or weeks at a time and traps lung-busting soot.
While smuggling has been taking place into and out of Iraq ever since Operation Desert Storm (just as it historically flourished in the region for thousands of years before, ) air delivery is particularly appealing insofar as it permits these transactions to take place in a relatively secure and timely fashion.
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We believe Rock4Life will be the biggest open air concert to be staged in the region.
During the symposium, Asia-Pacific airlines and civil aviation organizations agreed on a simplified air-traffic pattern to go into effect region-wide late Dec. 31.
Planned for more than three years, the exercise places British armed forces, including substantial naval and air force assets, conveniently close to the region.
Whether the fires that again raged across Australia represent folly by man or Acts of God will be debated, but clearly much of the region is pushing its luck with land, water and air practices.
Environmental groups, foundations, and major oil and gas companies came together to support stringent measures to protect air and water from pollution in the Appalachian region, and they invited other groups to join in and help limit pollution from fracking.
The Iranian Air Force will go from having basically no advanced aircraft to having more than any other nation in the region, save Israel and our "friends" in the Gulf, Saudi Arabia. 250 is a big air force.
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Lion Air has said there is enough growth in the region for many airlines to thrive.
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AirAsia, run by Malaysian billionaire Tony Fernandes is also expanding rapidly in the region and is expected to guard its turf fiercely against Lion Air, which is privately held.
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The article quoted Assistant Chief of the Defense Staff (Operations), Air Vice Marshal Andy Pulford saying British efforts in the region were justified.
The ground-and-air campaign has sent Islamist fighters who had seized the northern region fleeing into the vast desert.
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The ground and air campaign has sent Islamist fighters who had seized the northern region fleeing into the vast deserts.
The ground and air campaign has sent Islamist fighters who had seized the northern region fleeing into the desert and rugged terrain nearby.
Pavkovic commanded the Yugoslav army in southern Serbia, including the mainly ethnic Albanian province of Kosovo, during the 1999 NATO air strikes which eventually forced Yugoslav forces to withdraw from the region.
Researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology and Hong Kong Polytechnic have leveraged those temperature swings to help solve the arid region hydration conundrum with a cotton material that absorbs water straight from the surrounding air.
U.S. Air Force B-2 strike bombers also should be repositioned in the region.
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