Beginning
... of spent nuclear fuel rods (to extract weapons-grade plutonium) and was developing a "nuclear deterrent." Beginning in August 2003, North Korea, China, Japan, Russia, South Korea, and the US have participated ...
www.exxun.com/Korea_North/a_fg.html
beginning
... service obligation - 24-28 months, depending on the military branch involved (to be reduced to 18 months beginning 2016); 18-26 years of age for voluntary military service; women, in service since 1950, admitted ...
www.exxun.com/Korea_South/h_ml.html
beginning
... s rejection of a proposed settlement led to a three-month NATO bombing campaign against Serbia beginning in March 1999 that forced Serbia to agree to withdraw its military and police forces ...
www.exxun.com/Kosovo/a_fg.html
beginning
... Libya, supporting subversives and terrorists abroad to hasten the end of Marxism and capitalism. In addition, beginning in 1973, he engaged in military operations in northern Chad's Aozou Strip - to gain ...
www.exxun.com/Libya/a_fg.html
beginning
... from gaming was set to double 2006 collections. The expanding casino sector, and China's decision beginning in 2002 to relax travel restrictions, reenergized Macau's tourism industry. This city of just ...
www.exxun.com/Macau/e_ec.html
beginning
1419 (beginning of rule by the House of Grimaldi)
www.exxun.com/Monaco/d_gv.html
beginning
... eligible for reelection); election last held 3 May 2009 (next to be held in 2014); note - beginning in 2009, Panama will have only one vice president election results: Ricardo MARTINELLI elected president ...
www.exxun.com/Panama/d_gv.html
beginning
... cellular service available since 1993 and provided by three nation-wide networks with a fourth provider beginning operations in late 2006; cellular coverage is generally good with some gaps in the east ...
www.exxun.com/Poland/f_cm.html
Beginning
... Puntland disputes its border with Somaliland as it also claims portions of eastern Sool and Sanaag. Beginning in 1993, a two-year UN humanitarian effort (primarily in the south) was able to ...
www.exxun.com/Somalia/a_fg.html
beginning
... country's largest bank accepted a government rescue deal in late 2008. The Swiss National Bank, beginning in October 2008, cut interest rates on several consecutive occasions, effectively instituting a zero-rate ...
www.exxun.com/Switzerland/e_ec.html
beginning
... 30 (Army); the Ministry of Defense has announced plans to implement an incremental voluntary enlistment system beginning 2010, with 10% fewer conscripts each year thereafter, although nonvolunteers will still be required to ...
www.exxun.com/Taiwan/h_ml.html
beginning
... country remains the poorest in the former Soviet sphere. Attention by the international community since the beginning of the NATO intervention in Afghanistan has brought increased economic development and security assistance, which ...
www.exxun.com/Tajikistan/a_fg.html
beginning
... deterioration in air and water quality (especially in some countries of Eastern Europe, the former USSR, and China) pose serious long-term problems that governments and peoples are only beginning to address
www.exxun.com/World/b_mp.html
Beginnings
New Beginnings Movement or NBM; Rastafarians (black religious/racial cultists, pan-Africanists)
www.exxun.com/Jamaica/d_gv.html
begins
... 40 N, 32 51 E time difference: UTC+2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time) daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October
www.exxun.com/Akrotiri/d_gv.html
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