On 24 October it became the first Western nation to go to the IMF for support since 1976.
If America does not admit them, then another Western nation will.
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What definitely is new, though, is that in the near future there might be no western nation capable of or willing to police the Persian Gulf.
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None of these problems is unique to the UK. But Britain happens to be the first Western nation to host the Games since the credit crunch, so it is we who are also the first to be tested.
Crime has fallen in pretty well every Western developed nation over the same period irrespective of criminal justice or policing policies.
Brako, a Christian, was in the same year as AbdulMutallab at the English boarding school they attended in the western African nation of Togo and said they were close friends.
Michelle Esterman, Altisource's chief financial officer, said the company based itself in Luxembourg to be in a time zone closer to its employees in India, where a majority of its workforce is located, as well as the tax benefits afforded to technology companies by the western European nation.
EU's new foreign-policy chief, will also be put in charge of the ten-nation Western European Union, a weak but explicitly military organisation which the larger body is now expected to swallow up, though this raises awkward questions about countries more involved with one than the other.
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And now Ike, this storm is likely to follow a very similar course to Gustav, again running over the Isle of Youth that was barren soil virtually, and the western part of the nation where they grow this very fine tobacco that got wet.
Anticipating the storm, about 10, 000 Cubans evacuated Saturday to Cuba's mainland from La Isla de Juventud, or Isle of Youth, a province south of the nation's western end.
Neither African governments nor their western backers had any interest in letting nation-states break up.
Ban visited the nation, the poorest in the Western Hemisphere, over the weekend.
And after a military coup ousted and exiled President Manuel Zelaya in 2009 -- a move condemned by the UN and many Western governments -- foreign investment to the nation dwindled.
Goldwind, Coda, and the Thermal Power Research Institute are hybrids of Western design and Chinese production, and no nation has yet mastered both the invention and the low-cost manufacturing of clean technology.
Our own sense of who we are, and what we are, is overwhelmingly shaped by our sense of nation, as it is for every Western country.
When the U.S. government lifted sanctions in 2004 prohibiting American firms from doing business with and investing in Libya, Western financial institutions flocked to the oil-rich nation, according to a recent investigation by the Wall Street Journal.
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Thousands of anxious Cubans had boarded up their homes and sought safety from Gustav earlier as it slammed into the island nation. as it made landfall in western Cuba on Saturday night with sustained winds near 150 mph (240 kmh), the National Hurricane Center said.
Kyrgyzstan is a small nation of 4.5 million on the western border of China.
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Mutharika, a western-educated economist, was declared the winner in the African nation with about 2.6 million votes.
In China, IKEA is planning to up its nine locations to 17 stores by 2015 to meet demand from the nation's growing middle class, who aspire to Western lifestyles at affordable prices.
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The construction of politically-powerful new constituencies in Western nations with a vested financial interest in ensuring that the borrowing nation is not subject to future economic sanctions or other forms of international isolation and penalties.
The modernizing nation with a booming middle class has embraced the use of Western medicine.
Why is it that there's a sense of unity or a sense of nation or a sense of organizing that exists at the American Western level that doesn't exist for Africa?
Mr Vasile's plans for privatising the nation's telecommunications and other sectors this year may give some Western European firms new business opportunities.
Western powers overseeing Kosovo have announced the end of their supervision of the tiny Balkan nation.
Macedonian authorities blame Western nations for allowing more than a quarter of a million people to flood the nation.
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The credit union had offered Western Union money transfers and, ten years ago, switched to Vigo, the nation's third-largest service.
Until 2002, Argentina was the sole Latin American nation which sent out more money than it received in remittances, according to Western Union, an international money transfer company.
The evolution of Germany into a unified, stable nation, more pacific, liberal and attentive to civil liberties than most even in Western Europe, is a momentous achievement.
Western investors will shortly be able to own shares of Gazprom, which promise to drag that nation's fledging stock market into the 21st century with one long pull.
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