• The artist was born to a poor Jewish family in Vitebsk in the western region of Russia known as the Pale.

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  • Yet the war in the western region of Darfur, which reached its most violent stage as the CPA was being finalised, has eaten up most of the foreign diplomatic and financial resources that were promised to bolster the north-south agreement.

    ECONOMIST: Sudan's coming elections: How did it come to this? | The

  • The project was ongoing from 2008-2010 and as shown in the below map, was implemented in 23 soums of Bayan-Ulgii and Uvs aimags from the western region, Dornod and Khentii from the eastern region and Khentii aimag from the central region.

    UNESCO: Herder Families Literacy and Life Skills

  • The Luo heartland is in the western Nyanza region, but they have a significant presence in the key urban centres.

    BBC: Kenya cracks down on hate speech ahead of poll

  • If they did, he believes the entire western region could enjoy a more reliable power supply.

    ECONOMIST: ENERGY: Building the energy internet | The

  • Security Council an update on conditions in the western Sudan region, revisiting a report he gave a year ago.

    CNN: U.N.: 100,000 more dead in Darfur than reported

  • Mr Nkomo was a member of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (Zapu), which formed a unity government with Zanu-PF in 1987 to end conflict in the western Matabeleland region.

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  • This study showed that the Western Equatorial region of the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean was as warm, if not warmer, since the end of the last major ice age, approximately 12, 000 years ago.

    BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | World 'warmest for 12,000 years'

  • About 16km east of Ventimiglia, San Remo is the most well-known city in the Riviera dei Fiori and marks the western boundary of the region.

    BBC: Have the Italian Riviera all to yourself

  • Shipping companies must ensure that their ships rigorously apply the IMO guidance and industry-developed Best Management Practices in their entirety, so that, when venturing into the western Indian Ocean region, they comply with all the recommended measures: no ship is invulnerable, in particular those with relatively low freeboards and slow steaming speeds.

    FORBES: Piracy The Focus of Today's World Maritime Day Celebration

  • The opposing left-leaning Social Democratic Party, which has worked in coalition with the CDU as the ruling party in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania region, strengthened in the election.

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  • South Africa has increased the basic daily wage of farm workers by 52% following a violent strike in the wine-producing Western Cape region, the labour minister has said.

    BBC: South Africa farm workers get 52% pay rise

  • Oddly, it was not a Breton but a Spaniard, Carlos Nunez, from the north-western region of Galicia, who best showed old artistry in new forms.

    ECONOMIST: Celtic music

  • They argue that their own research in the western Hudson Bay region carried out earlier this year indicated that bear numbers were increasing rather than declining.

    BBC: Polar bear trade ban divides campaigners

  • Chad, which is rich in oil, has been hit by the conflict in the neighbouring Sudanese western Darfur region, with hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing across the border.

    BBC: NEWS | Africa | Chad confronts rebels in capital

  • The northern Mecklenburg-Western Pomerian region, which sits along the coast of the Baltic Sea, was a part of former East Germany.

    FORBES: German Elections May Set Stage For Political Shift

  • The Arctic remains one of the few unexplored regions of the world and the region above Alaska and western Canada is believed to be oil rich.

    WSJ: Exxon Struggles to Find Oil

  • The UN, Western governments and those in the region have a moral duty not to give up trying to bring Somalis together.

    ECONOMIST: What is to be done about the world��s least-governed state?

  • For Yale, the venture provides a chance to extend the university's brand to fast-growing Asian markets and to help introduce the Western liberal-arts tradition to the region.

    WSJ: Yale-Singapore Venture to Forbid Political Protest

  • The United Arab Emirates is a major oil exporter and a key Western ally in the region.

    BBC: Map showing UAE and Saudi Arabia

  • Sharing cramped geographic quarters with Iran, Russia, Georgia, and Armenia is no easy task, yet Azeris in this Muslim-majority country enjoy one of the most pro-Western, liberalized societies in the region (consider that women gained the right to vote in pre-Soviet Azerbaijan in 1919, narrowly beating out the enactment of the Nineteenth Amendment).

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  • In 1994, more than 120 people were killed by an earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale which struck in the Mascara region of western Algeria.

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  • Dr. Noor Jehan Panezai, MP, who represents the region in Western Pakistan where the pipeline will run, welcomes the plan as an employment package for her constituents.

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  • Alleged crimes in the region stem from a brutal counter-insurgency campaign the Sudanese government conducted after rebels began an uprising in the Darfur region of western Sudan in 2003.

    CNN: Sudan accused of Darfur cover up

  • The deal digs Mr Albanese out of a hole the size of Tom Price, the huge iron-ore complex in the Pilbara region of Western Australia in which Chinalco stands to take a stake.

    ECONOMIST: Face value

  • As for Mr Bashir, he will feel that the vote is at least a partial vindication of his stance against the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has indicted him for war crimes over the conflict in the country's western region of Darfur.

    ECONOMIST: Now that Bashir has won the election, what next for Sudan?

  • Spanghero is a major employer in the south-western Castelnaudary region, which has been hit by high unemployment, and there has been a big local outcry about the impact if the firm were to close permanently, the BBC's Hugh Schofield, in Paris, reports.

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  • Sitting in the center of the so-called Sun Belt, the country is part of a vast, rainless region reaching from the western edge of North Africa to the eastern edge of Central Asia that boasts the best solar energy resources on Earth.

    FORBES: The Saudi Arabia Of Solar Energy

  • The Kremlin likes to blame Western security services for destabilising the region.

    ECONOMIST: Russia's north Caucasus

  • Ojiya-chijimi, Echigo-jofu: techniques of making ramie fabric in Uonuma region, Niigata Prefecture developed in the north-western part of Japan s main island and bear the mark of the region s cooler climate particularly its snowy winters.

    UNESCO: Culture

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