The route includes stopovers in Quetta, near the Afghan border, and in the Iranian capital, Tehran.

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It took 12 hours of travel, which included two stopovers, to reach Anchorage from New York.

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As the plane is piloted by only one person at a time, it will have to make frequent stopovers.

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America has obtained permission for its military aircraft to fly over Kazakhstan and to use Kazakh airfields for stopovers.

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His curtailed European tour - including stopovers at many of the continent's top festivals - is proof of Bowie's enduring popularity.

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But recent research has shown that some wild birds' patterns of flights and stopovers during migrations, or moulting times, differ between El Nino and La Nina years.

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Then the trimaran will enter the MOD70 European Tour, a competition around Europe with stopovers in Kiel (Germany), Dublin (Ireland), Cascais (Portugal), Marseille (France) and Genoa (Italy).

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Bush will step up his New Hampshire stopovers in January.

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