Direct French military action became urgent however when the Islamic insurgents threatened to invade the country's southern region.
It is now starting pilot projects in the central region of the Visayas and the southern region of Mindanao.
Since 1892, scientists have recorded at least 1, 173 serious landslides in Campania and in another almost equally shaky southern region, Calabria.
Coalition forces said today that they've killed 40 insurgents in Afghanistan's southern region, where Taliban loyalists have been counterattacking in recent months.
The Financial Times says Algeria has long feared that an upsurge in militant activity could threaten its valuable southern region - rich in oil and gas.
In the southern region of Puno, protestors stormed an airport and a railway station, and three people have been killed in different clashes across the country.
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Correspondents say the French-speaking southern region of Wallonia fears that greater regional self-rule will deprive it of federal tax revenues and have a negative impact on social services.
At the end of July, a major milestone took place when responsibility for the security of Afghanistan's volatile southern region was handed from a U.S.-led coalition to the NATO force and 8, 000 of its troops.
Most notably, local permit delays have spurred Shell to abandon an Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project in Sicily after seven years of permit delays and BG to threaten to withdraw from a similar effort in the southern region of Puglia after 11 years of waiting.
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They also point to insecurity in the southern Terai region, home to around 40% of Nepalis.
Shenzhen Bus Group is a large operator of bus lines, taxis, and related businesses in the southern Guangdong region.
Half the refugees are thought to be roaming in the southern Pool region, a no-man's-land between Brazzaville and Dolisie.
The contractors, working for Canada's Gran Tierra Energy, were taken hostage in the southern Cauca region, Reuters news agency reports.
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Hollande has represented the southern Correze region in parliament since 1988 but many question if he has the right stuff.
Some 300, 000 people have been resettled so far, many in the southern Oromia region, where it has proved particularly hard to subsist.
This helped GMRC to effectively reach consumers in the southern California region and to take advantage of manufacturing and distribution synergies in that region.
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Similarly, Verizon offers broad coverage in the San Francisco Bay Area, southern coastal region stretching from Los Angeles to San Diego, and the Central Valley.
The Israeli team sprayed acacia trees in an oasis in the southern desert region of the country with a sugar solution containing the insecticide Spinosad.
The exception is a long-running rebellion in the southern Casamance region.
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The Southern Denmark region, which accounts for 22% of the national population and 20% of GDP, is the home of a new Welfare Tech Region (WTR).
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The Zapatista uprising began in January 1994, when the rebel Zapatista National Liberation Army, led by a man known only as "Subcommandante Marcos" declared war on the central government in an effort to gain improved living conditions and better rights for indigenous Indian peasants in the southern Chiapas region.
This week's violence in the north comes on top of unceasing violence in the southern Niger Delta region, where an insurgency by militants demanding a bigger share of the country's oil wealth continues to disrupt oil exports.
Weinberg also states that a feasibility study for a Bluefields-Nueva Guinea highway has been completed by the Danish development agency DANIDA, linking two towns in the Southern Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAS), with a further link foreseen to Monkey Point (which lies south of Bluefields, the RAAS seat).
The world's most ancient example of winemaking was found in Shulaveri, a region in southern Georgia.
The dish originated in Ascoli-Piceno, a town in the southern part of the region, and spread north.
The Tsarnaevs are ethnic Chechens from the troubled Caucasus region of southern Russia.
Some years later, his family moved to the suburbs of southern Beirut, a region long associated with Shiite radicalism.
Many Shiites want a similar autonomous region in southern Iraq, where they are the vast majority, and they have supported Kurdish autonomy.
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