Moscow and Minsk have insisted that Operation West was to help "ensure the strategic stability in the East European region".

莫斯科和明斯克坚持认为，这次“西方”演习有助于“确保东欧地区的战略稳定”。

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While the local bank robber is restricted to the several branches in his region, his online counterpart can choose from the thousands of Banks with an online operation.

与地方银行劫匪被局限在他所在范围内的一些支行相比，而网上劫匪可以选择数千个在线操作的银行进行操作。

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As it is located in the region strongly hit by the earthquake, the factory immediately came to a halt and currently remains out of operation.

东芝的一位发言人称：“由于东芝岩手电子公司所在的区域受到了地震的严重影响，工厂的生产很快陷入停顿，目前仍未恢复正常运转。”

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The reported advances near the Afghan border come a day after army officials took journalists into the region for the first time since the operation started in mid-October.

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While the military has not publicly set a date for any major operation in the area, U.N.officials say some 80,000 civilians have fled the region in anticipation of a new offensive.

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The military is trying to complete a two-month offensive to dislodge Taliban fighters in the Swat Valley region, and will soon begin a similar operation to hunt down top Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud in South Waziristan.

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Researchers will work with the Egyptian Medicinal Plant Conservation Project in St Katherine's, Sinai, which is working to preserve the biodiversity of the region through co-operation with local Bedouin.

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The British forces have deployed around 45, 000 personnel to the region in an exercise called Operation Telic.

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Today's paper says, "even when US forces are committed to a large-scale operation in one region, they will be capable of denying the objectives of - or imposing unacceptable costs on - an opportunistic aggressor in a second region".

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