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... separate nation of Bangladesh. India's nuclear weapons testing in 1998 caused Pakistan to conduct its own tests that same year. The dispute between the countries over the state of Kashmir is ...
www.exxun.com/India/a_fg.html
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none; there are no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US Government, but there are 24 local authorities each with its own elections
www.exxun.com/IsleofMan/d_gv.html
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... women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation; North Korea's own system of political repression includes forced labor in a network of prison camps where an ...
www.exxun.com/Korea_North/i_ti.html
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... of water to South Africa and generated royalties for Lesotho. Lesotho produces about 90% of its own electrical power needs. As the number of mineworkers has declined steadily over the past several ...
www.exxun.com/Lesotho/e_ec.html
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... 1951. Following a 1969 military coup, Col. Muammar Abu Minyar al-QADHAFI began to espouse his own political system, the Third Universal Theory. The system is a combination of socialism and Islam ...
www.exxun.com/Libya/a_fg.html
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... to permit another term, struggled to assert his authority against his predecessor and subsequently started his own party, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in 2005. As president, MUTHARIKA has overseen substantial economic ...
www.exxun.com/Malawi/a_fg.html
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... constitution; under terms of federation, Sabah and Sarawak retain certain constitutional prerogatives (e.g., right to maintain their own immigration controls); Sabah holds 25 seats in House of Representatives; Sarawak has 31 seats
www.exxun.com/Malaysia/d_gv.html
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... Development. On 18 January 2007, Montenegro joined the World Bank and IMF. Montenegro is pursuing its own membership in the World Trade Organization as well as negotiating a Stabilization and Association agreement ...
www.exxun.com/Montenegro/e_ec.html
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... massacred ten members of the royal family, including the king and queen, and then took his own life. In October 2002, the new king dismissed the prime minister and his cabinet for ...
www.exxun.com/Nepal/a_fg.html
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none (part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands) note: each island has its own government
www.exxun.com/NetherlandsAntilles/d_gv.html
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English common law; note - Niue is self-governing, with the power to make its own laws
www.exxun.com/Niue/d_gv.html
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... becoming the separate nation of Bangladesh. In response to Indian nuclear weapons testing, Pakistan conducted its own tests in 1998. The dispute over the state of Kashmir is ongoing, but discussions and ...
www.exxun.com/Pakistan/a_fg.html
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... 2.3 million Afghan refugees leaving slightly more than a million, many of whom remain at their own choosing; Pakistan has proposed and Afghanistan protests construction of a fence and laying of mines ...
www.exxun.com/Pakistan/i_ti.html
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... Communist, TITO's new government and his successors (he died in 1980) managed to steer their own path between the Warsaw Pact nations and the West for the next four and a ...
www.exxun.com/Serbia/a_fg.html
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... about 23,000 shillings per dollar as of February 2007 note: the Republic of Somaliland, a self-declared independent country not recognized by any foreign government, issues its own currency, the Somaliland shilling
www.exxun.com/Somalia/e_ec.html
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... Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified ...
www.exxun.com/SouthAfrica/a_fg.html
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... illicit methaqualone, usually imported illegally from India through various east African countries, but increasingly producing its own synthetic drugs for domestic consumption; attractive venue for money launderers given the increasing level of ...
www.exxun.com/SouthAfrica/i_ti.html
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... and a penguin on the right; a reindeer appears above the shield, and below it on a scroll is the motto LEO TERRAM PROPRIAM PROTEGAT (Let the Lion Protect its Own Land
www.exxun.com/SouthGeorgiaSouthSandwichIs/d_gv.html
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... Republic of Tanzania, the Assembly enacts laws that apply only to the mainland; Zanzibar has its own House of Representatives to make laws especially for Zanzibar (the Zanzibar House of Representatives has ...
www.exxun.com/Tanzania/d_gv.html
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none; each atoll has its own administrative center time difference: UTC-11 (6 hours behind Washington, DC during Standard Time)
www.exxun.com/Tokelau/d_gv.html
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federal court system based on English common law; each state has its own unique legal system, of which all but one (Louisiana, which is still influenced by the Napoleonic Code) is based ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedStates/d_gv.html
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... West Bank; the Israel Electric Company directly supplies electricity to most Jewish residents and military facilities; some Palestinian municipalities, such as Nablus and Janin, generate their own electricity from small power plants
www.exxun.com/WestBank/e_ec.html
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... overcrowded globe is exacerbating the problems of pollution, desertification, underemployment, epidemics, and famine. Because of their own internal problems and priorities, the industrialized countries devote insufficient resources to deal effectively with the ...
www.exxun.com/World/e_ec.html
