Inuit Greenlander 88% (Inuit and Greenland-born whites), Danish and others 12% (2000) www.exxun.com/Greenland/c_pp.html
Inuit ... Party (Solidarity) [Finn KARLSEN] (a conservative party favoring continuing close relations with Denmark); Demokratiit [Per BERTHELSEN]; Inuit Ataqatigiit or IA (Eskimo Brotherhood) [Josef MOTZFELDT] (a leftist party favoring complete independence from Denmark ... www.exxun.com/Greenland/d_gv.html
INUM ... Council for Dialogue or INCD [Khalaf Ulayan al-Khalifawi al-DULAYMI]; Iraqi National Unity Movement or INUM [Ahmad al-KUBAYSI]; Islamic Action Organization or IAO [Ayatollah Muhammad al-MUDARRISI]; Islamic Supreme Council ... www.exxun.com/Iraq/d_gv.html
inundated droughts, cyclones; much of the country routinely inundated during the summer monsoon season www.exxun.com/Bangladesh/b_mp.html
invaded ... in democracy ended in a 1973 coup and a 1978 Communist counter-coup. The Soviet Union invaded in 1979 to support the tottering Afghan Communist regime, touching off a long and destructive ... www.exxun.com/Afghanistan/a_fg.html
invaded ... separation to rival clans within Ethiopia's Ogaden and southern Somalia's Oromo region; Ethiopian forces invaded southern Somalia and routed Islamist Courts from Mogadishu in January 2007; "Somaliland" secessionists provide port ... www.exxun.com/Ethiopia/i_ti.html
invaded ... UK asserted its claim to the islands by establishing a naval garrison there in 1833. Argentina invaded the islands on 2 April 1982. The British responded with an expeditionary force that landed ... www.exxun.com/FalklandIslands_IslasMalvinas/a_fg.html
invaded ... neighboring islands and territories, most with Greek-speaking populations. In World War II, Greece was first invaded by Italy (1940) and subsequently occupied by Germany (1941-44); fighting endured in a protracted civil ... www.exxun.com/Greece/a_fg.html
invaded ... seized by a Marxist military council on 19 October 1983. Six days later the island was invaded by US forces and those of six other Caribbean nations, which quickly captured the ringleaders ... www.exxun.com/Grenada/a_fg.html
invaded ... Norwegians resisted the cession of their country to Sweden and adopted a new constitution. Sweden then invaded Norway but agreed to let Norway keep its constitution in return for accepting the union ... www.exxun.com/Norway/a_fg.html
invaded Ethiopian forces invaded southern Somalia and routed Islamist Courts from Mogadishu in January 2007; "Somaliland" secessionists provide port facilities in Berbera to landlocked Ethiopia and have established commercial ties with other regional ... www.exxun.com/Somalia/i_ti.html
invaded ... World War II. East Timor declared itself independent from Portugal on 28 November 1975 and was invaded and occupied by Indonesian forces nine days later. It was incorporated into Indonesia in July ... www.exxun.com/EastTimor/a_fg.html
invaders ... In the 16th century, the Sa'adi monarchy, particularly under Ahmad AL-MANSUR (1578-1603), repelled foreign invaders and inaugurated a golden age. In 1860, Spain occupied northern Morocco and ushered in a ... www.exxun.com/Morocco/a_fg.html
invaders ... Yugoslavia from 1941 to 1945, but fought each other and ethnic opponents as much as the invaders. The military and political movement headed by Josip TITO (Partisans) took full control of Yugoslavia ... www.exxun.com/Serbia/a_fg.html
invading ... Conditions began to improve in late 2002 with the withdrawal of a large portion of the invading foreign troops. The transitional government reopened relations with international financial institutions and international donors, and ... www.exxun.com/Congo_DemocraticRepublic/e_ec.html
invalid ... Toomas Hendrik ILVES elected president on 23 September 2006 by a 345-member electoral assembly; ILVES received 174 votes to incumbent Arnold RUUTEL's 162; remaining 9 ballots left blank or invalid www.exxun.com/Estonia/d_gv.html
invalid ... held on 24 March 2008 election results: MUSHARRAF reelected; MUSHARRAF 671 votes; Wajihuddin AHMED 8 votes; 6 votes invalid; GILANI elected prime minister GILANI 264 votes; Pervaiz ELAHI 42 votes; several abstentions www.exxun.com/Pakistan/d_gv.html
invalidated ... but also to the Seychelles, between 1967 and 1973. In 2000, a British High Court ruling invalidated the local immigration order that had excluded them from the archipelago, but upheld the special ... www.exxun.com/BritishIndianOceanTerritory/a_fg.html
invalidated ... the prime minister and deputy prime minister appointed by the president in consultation with the National Assembly election results: Michel SULAYMAN elected president; National Assembly vote - 118 for, 6 abstentions, 3 invalidated www.exxun.com/Lebanon/d_gv.html
invalidated ... place on 26 December 2004 after the earlier 21 November 2004 contest - won by YANUKOVYCH - was invalidated by the Ukrainian Supreme Court because of widespread and significant violations; under constitutional reforms that ... www.exxun.com/Ukraine/d_gv.html
invasion ... forced hardships, or starvation during the Khmer Rouge regime under POL POT. A December 1978 Vietnamese invasion drove the Khmer Rouge into the countryside, began a 10-year Vietnamese occupation, and touched ... www.exxun.com/Cambodia/a_fg.html
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