Aid teams are starting to assess the scale of damage in the remote region.

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The goal, he said, it to keep insurgents isolated in remote areas where they can do little damage.

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They say assessing the level of damage is taking time because of the very remote location of the island and debris on its airstrip.

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The Secretary of State has not attached weight to the impairment of Senator Pinochet's capacity to remember remote events, save insofar its recent deterioration is symptomatic of brain damage having a wider significance: see sub-paragraph (6) below.

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The FARC, while severely weakened and mostly confined to remote areas close to Colombia's borders, is still capable of damage.

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Sistan Baluchestan's governor said the epicenter was in a remote and uninhabited area, some 28 miles from the closest town, and much of the damage was limited to a few collapsed walls.

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Because the area is remote and communications have been cut, it could be some time before there are full reports of damage or casualties at the quake's epicenter.

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