But the Hebron oil field is believed to extend southward into U.S. waters with its billion-barrel potential.
As the rebels moved southward toward Bamako, such reports prompted an international response, led by the French.
Southward, Putin invaded Georgia, annexing 20 percent of its territory in the two enclaves of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
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At the beginning of this year, Abou Zeid joined other Islamist forces making a push southward toward the capital Bamako.
The BJP had pointed to success in Tamil Nadu's neighbour Karnataka in 2008 as evidence that it could branch out southward.
But the southward advance of the rebel and Islamist forces and the precipitate collapse of the Malian army changed all this.
They not only introduced alien customs and Sanskrit, but also drove most of the north's original and largely docile tribal inhabitants southward.
The rain could lead to secondary crests and higher crests along the Mississippi from Memphis, Tennessee, southward, CNN meteorologist Sean Morris said.
Three Cumbria County councillors, David Southward, Frank Morgan and Wendy Skillicorn, called-in the decision, meaning the cabinet wished to examine the original rejection.
Police tried to stop them at several points, waylaying some of the cars and arresting several leaders, but the convoy continued southward, Qureshi said by phone.
Late this summer, Penney got rid of its month-long sales offering part of a three-tier strategy along with lower across-the-board pricing and periodic clearances but sales continued southward.
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When the extremists began advancing southward in early 2013, Hollande unilaterally authorized a military intervention which quickly pushed the Islamic extremists from the main cities in Mali's north.
To meet the demands of farmers and the growing population of the south-western states, ambitious and hugely controversial schemes have long been floated for diverting Canadian rivers southward.
In May, Enbridge, a Canadian company, reversed the flow of a big North American oil pipeline, sending a glut of oil from America's northern plains southward to coastal refineries.
Within a few days, services swing round the brilliant blue waters of Lake Baikal, before plunging southward into the gently sloping grasslands of the Mongolian steppe, dotted with yurts and grazing horses.
The disease has spread from eastern China both northward and southward, leading to the closure of a growing number of markets where live chicken is sold as a preventative measure.
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The resistance forces (both those of the Khmer Rouge and those of the non-communist elements) have recently made significant gains in northwestern Cambodia and seek to expand eastward and southward.
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Laura Hipp, spokeswoman Barbour's office, confirmed that a house owned by the governor in his native Yazoo County was flooded by the watery onslaught moving southward down the Mississippi River.
The Islamists' movement southward has raised concerns among leaders in West Africa and elsewhere, some of them calling for swift and decisive military intervention to aid Mali's government, based in Bamako.
And since the North's economy is just biding time before it collapses or is absorbed southward, the bonding between Beijing and Seoul makes Korean reunification a more likely, if still faraway, prospect.
On my first trip to Morocco, in the early '70s, after renting a car in Tangiers, we drove southward hundreds of miles through Fez, over the Atlas Mountains and eventually deep into the Sahara.
And the Islamists' movement southward has raised concerns among leaders in West Africa and elsewhere, some of them calling for swift and decisive military intervention in support of Mali's government, based in Bamako.
The administration has stepped up security co-operation with Mexico, deploying drones and American agents south of the border and allowing Mexican police to use American territory as a launch pad for surprise raids southward.
For instance, Miami is the hub for flights to most destinations in South America and the Caribbean, meaning that a majority of Americans flying southward internationally pass through Miami's airport instead of, say, either Houston or Atlanta.
Fleming said the decision to open the spillway, along with similar decisions made in recent weeks as the floodwaters moved southward, was done to address a historic excess of water in the Mississippi River and its tributaries.
"The Secretary-General welcomes that bilateral partners are responding, at the request and with the consent of the government of Mali, to its call for assistance to counter the troubling push southward by armed and terrorist groups, " his office said in a statement.
In addition to creating the sill, officials are planning to take 2.5 million gallons of fresh water from farther north in the river -- past mile marker 100 -- then carry it by barge southward "and suck it into our water treatment facilities, " Laigast said.
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While the EU had long planned a training mission for Mali's army it is now in place and other efforts to improve security in the Sahel, it was unilateral action by France, backed up mainly by U.S. and U.K. military hardware, that helped stem the southward advance of Islamist militants.
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