James Smith, returning officer for the South of Scotland, region revealed something of the sheer scale of operation which faced him and returning officers throughout Scotland on polling day.
Last year, a report by the United Nations Environment Programme said that over half a century of oil operation in the region, by firms including Shell, had caused deeper damage to the Ogoniland area of the Niger Delta than earlier estimated.
Researchers will work with the Egyptian Medicinal Plant Conservation Project in St Katherine's, Sinai, which is working to preserve the biodiversity of the region through co-operation with local Bedouin.
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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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Details of the meeting were scant, but a China Mobile spokesman said it was regarding "matters of co-operation" in the region.
On 16 May 1943, 617 Squadron flew in to attack dams in the industrial region of Germany using bouncing bombs, as part of Operation Chastise.
The estimated fuel consumption saving for high speed highway operation of road trains is in the region of 20 percent depending on vehicle spacing and geometry.
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Today's paper says, "even when US forces are committed to a large-scale operation in one region, they will be capable of denying the objectives of - or imposing unacceptable costs on - an opportunistic aggressor in a second region".
Last month France led an operation to help oust Islamists who seized the vast northern region of Mali in 2012.
The BBC's West Africa correspondent Thomas Fessy says the French offensive, called "Operation Gustav", is intended to clear the Gao region of any militants still hiding there and to prevent further attacks on the city.
The operation was a way to revive the economic activity of an entire region by supporting tourism and crafts.
Brazil's dictatorship is increasingly thought to have played a major role in Operation Condor, as one of the first military regimes installed in the region.
The decision to resume the Nautile's operation came as fresh incidences of pollution were reported on the coast of the French region of Brittany.
Recent surveys in the Bourem area of Gao region found that the price of basic foodstuffs had increased by up to 70% as a result of the military operation, Oxfam said.
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