• Bahrain's palace, the seat of government, confirmed the offer, according to Bahrain TV.

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  • Protestors from those areas have staged a sit-in in the old casbah of Tunis, near the seat of government.

    ECONOMIST: The revolution is still in flux

  • After the ceremony, the casket was laid to rest near Osu Castle, the seat of government where Mills had lived and worked since he became president.

    CNN: Ghana mourns as President John Atta Mills is buried

  • The Capitol, a replica of the one in Washington, was previously the seat of government in Cuba but has mainly sat unused since the 1959 revolution.

    CNN: Cuban President Raul Castro says he'll leave in 2018

  • The structure is made from sea rocks and gypsum, and served as both residence to Dubai's rulers and the seat of government until 1971, when it became a museum.

    BBC: The Dubai Museum: Charting the rise of the emirate

  • Grand Turk is the seat of government of the Turks and Caicos Island and early Sunday, it took the brunt of hurricane Ike and joining us now is Rachel Harvey.

    NPR: Hurricanes Wreak Havoc In Haiti And Cuba

  • It happened near the center of town, near a bridge that leads to the Green Zone, which is the seat of Iraqi government power and also where the U.S. Embassy is located.

    NPR: Twin Bombings in Baghdad Mark Upsurge in Attacks

  • At about 10 a.m. local time Tuesday, another car bomb exploded in an area of restaurants and grocery stores that are located meters away from one of the entrances of the Green Zone, the seat of the Iraqi government and home to the British, U.S. and other embassies, according to witnesses.

    WSJ: Wave of Deadly Attacks Hits Baghdad

  • Last weekend a cacophony reverberated through Ramallah, the Palestinian seat of government in the West Bank, as protesters outside the newly fortified walls of his headquarters called on drivers opposed to talking to Israel to hoot.

    ECONOMIST: Israel and Palestine

  • Until the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911, this sprawling complex was the seat of Chinese government.

    BBC: Beijing's once Forbidden City

  • In his redesign of the Reichstag, the seat of German government in Berlin, Foster has carried this out to an extraordinary degree.

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  • The attacks coincided with an Arab League meeting that was under way inside the Green Zone the seat of the Iraqi government and home to the British, U.S. and other embassies.

    WSJ: Wave of Deadly Attacks Hits Baghdad

  • In 1960, Brazil inaugurated its new capital, Brasilia, transferring the seat of national government from Rio de Janeiro.

    CNN: Sunday,

  • The seat of the government and the monarchy, Madrid is the third most populous city in the European Union.

    WSJ: Insider's Travel Guide to Madrid

  • Located just 130km south from splashy Dubai, coastal Abu Dhabi has traditionally been known as the staid seat of the federal government, home to the ruling Abu Dhabi Emiri Family.

    BBC: Living in: Abu Dhabi

  • Many of these operations are headquartered in what he calls the "Wahhabi corridor" - communities in Northern Virginia within a few miles of the Nation's seat of government.

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  • The remains of 79 Palestinians were delivered to the seat of the Palestinian government in Ramallah, West Bank, where Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas presided over an official military ceremony.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • She did not say when the handover would occur, but reporters saw Sharyn Hakken leaving the dock of Havana's Hemingway Marina in the back seat of a Cuban government vehicle and workers later said that all four Hakkens had been taken away.

    NPR: Cuba To Turn Over Florida Couple And Children

  • In the town of Lushan, seat of the county government, the damage was less widespread, and streets were filled with excavators and vehicles carrying paramilitary police to help with the rescue efforts.

    WSJ: Rescuers Work to Reach Quake Area

  • Mitchell, the Obama administration's special envoy to the Middle East, made the remarks after meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, the Palestinian Authority's seat of government in the West Bank.

    CNN: U.S. Mideast envoy, Palestinian president meet

  • Al-Shabab last week forcefully took control of Somalia's seat of government, the town of Baidoa, which it continues to hold.

    WSJ: Somalia's New President Faces Old Opposition

  • This renewal is centred on Erbil, the seat of the regional government which has, from well before the overthrow of Saddam, steered a delicate path towards autonomy and economic development.

    FORBES: Iraq - but not as you know it.

  • Although the technical membership of the UPFA may now be approaching the bare minimum of legislators needed to maintain a majority in the 225-seat parliament, the government is likely to be able to find a comfortable number of MPs to back its legislative agenda from among the numerous smaller parties in Sri Lanka.

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  • Others - like the formidable Jim Lafferty of the Virginia Anti-Shariah Task Force - quite rightly, object to the idea of nestling within minutes of our seat of government an institution that is so problematic, to say the least, from a security point of view.

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  • Facing a dead man's testimony the BBC too is now in the hot seat alongside the government, with Gilligan in turn accused of 'sexing up' his story.

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  • With increasing openness, Muslims accuse such figures as the sheikh of al-Azhar, Cairo's 1, 000 year old seat of Islamic studies, of being stooges for the government.

    ECONOMIST: Egypt and the region

  • Designated a county constituency and containing a great deal more territory than just the ancient city, this seat was drawn to be identical to the City of Durham local government unit and its name distinguishes it from the six other seats in County Durham.

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  • Business Secretary Vince Cable said the review echoed the government's current thinking on putting employers in the driving seat of training programmes.

    BBC: Apprenticeships 'should last a year', report says

  • Now this seat is held by the freely elected government of Afghanistan, which is represented today by President Karzai.

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  • Unlike France Europe's other seat of fashion power the Italian government spends only a fraction of its budget on art preservation.

    WSJ: The Fashion Set Saves Italy

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