Instead of helping on that front, Correa now vows to shut down the base and let the region go un-patrolled.

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Most defendants in the position of the San Antonio Four go entirely un-noticed.

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Dressed in black and her hair loose around her face, the actress shared the stories of women she met in Kosovo and the Democratic Republic of Congo, who escaped the brutality of un-checked rape and abuse only to go on to roles as activists for the safety of other women in their communities.

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Western governments have suggested operating through go-betweens such as the UN.

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The two countries reached an agreement on a wheat-for-oil deal that will go to the UN sanctions committee for approval.

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Alternatively one could go to the Courtauld Gallery in London, lose oneself in its un-crowded galleries and wallow in its exquisite collection of less celebrated Cezanne masterpieces.

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In a BBC interview on Wednesday, Kofi Annan, the United Nations' secretary-general, reiterated his worries that the continuing violence could make it impossible to conduct the elections. (He also annoyed America and its allies by asserting that the Iraq invasion had been illegal.) Earlier in the week, Iraq's interim president, Ghazi al-Yawar, had said that the elections should go ahead unless the UN insisted otherwise.

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You go to luxuriate in its old-school resorts and daydream on its un-peopled beaches.

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