refueling
... the end of World War II. In subsequent years, Wake was developed as a stopover and refueling site for military and commercial aircraft transiting the Pacific. Since 1974, the island's airstrip ...
www.exxun.com/WakeIsland/a_fg.html
Refuge
Port Refuge
www.exxun.com/Cocos_Keeling_Islands/g_tr.html
refuge
... states reside as refugees in the DROC; members of Uganda's Lords Resistance Army forces take refuge in DROC's Garamba National Park; the location of the boundary in the broad Congo ...
www.exxun.com/Congo_DemocraticRepublic/i_ti.html
refuge
... border security; approximately two million Iraqis have fled the conflict in Iraq, with the majority taking refuge in Syria and Jordan, and lesser numbers to Egypt, Lebanon, Iran, and Turkey; Iraq's ...
www.exxun.com/Iraq/i_ti.html
refuge
approximately two million Iraqis have fled the conflict in Iraq, with the majority taking refuge in Syria and Jordan; 2004 Agreement settles border dispute with Syria pending demarcation
www.exxun.com/Jordan/i_ti.html
Refuge
... Interior. A 1998 scientific expedition to the island described it as a unique preserve of Caribbean biodiversity; the following year it became a National Wildlife Refuge and annual scientific expeditions have continued
www.exxun.com/NavassaIsland/a_fg.html
Refuge
... the Fish and Wildlife Service, US Department of the Interior, from the Caribbean Islands National Wildlife Refuge in Boqueron, Puerto Rico; in September 1996, the Coast Guard ceased operations and maintenance of ...
www.exxun.com/NavassaIsland/d_gv.html
refuge
Subsistence fishing and commercial trawling occur within refuge waters.
www.exxun.com/NavassaIsland/e_ec.html
refuge
... government and armed Tamil separatists in the mid-1980s, several hundred thousand Tamil civilians have fled the island and more than 200,000 Tamils have sought refuge in the West (July 2008 est
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refuge
... the Golan Heights; 2004 Agreement and pending demarcation settles border dispute with Jordan; approximately two million Iraqis have fled the conflict in Iraq with the majority taking refuge in Syria and Jordan
www.exxun.com/Syria/i_ti.html
Refuge
... the following US Pacific island territories except Midway Atoll constitute the Pacific Remote Islands National Wildlife Refuge Complex and as such are managed by the Fish and Wildlife Service of the US ...
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refuge
... interior lagoon; closed to the public Midway Islands: a coral atoll managed as a national wildlife refuge and open to the public for wildlife-related recreation in the form of wildlife observation ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedStatesPacificIsland/b_mp.html
Refuge
... and Wildlife Service of the US Department of the Interior as part of the National Wildlife Refuge system note on Palmyra Atoll: incorporated Territory of the US; partly privately owned and partly ...
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refugee
... annual subsidies the country received, and defined India's responsibilities in defense and foreign relations. A refugee issue of over 100,000 Bhutanese in Nepal remains unresolved; 90% of the refugees are housed ...
www.exxun.com/Bhutan/a_fg.html
refugee
... 1930) and established a socialist state. Torn by bloody coups, uprisings, wide-scale drought, and massive refugee problems, the regime was finally toppled in 1991 by a coalition of rebel forces, the ...
www.exxun.com/Ethiopia/a_fg.html
refugee
... May-September 2007 battled Sunni extremist group Fatah al-Islam in the Nahr al-Barid Palestinian refugee camp; and the country has witnessed a string of politically motivated assassinations since the death ...
www.exxun.com/Lebanon/a_fg.html
refugee
... waters; discussions have not progressed on a comprehensive maritime delimitation, setting limits on resource exploration and refugee interdiction, since Morocco's 2002 rejection of Spain's unilateral designation of a median line ...
www.exxun.com/Morocco/i_ti.html
refugee
... instituted a stricter border regime to restrict transit of Maoist insurgents and illegal cross-border activities; approximately 106,000 Bhutanese Lhotshampas (Hindus) have been confined in refugee camps in southeastern Nepal since 1990
www.exxun.com/Nepal/i_ti.html
refugee
... in 1975 by the Somali Government; population counting in Somalia is complicated by the large number of nomads and by refugee movements in response to famine and clan warfare (July 2008 est
www.exxun.com/Somalia/c_pp.html
refugee
... to eastern Chad, and Sudanese incursions into the Central African Republic. Sudan also has faced large refugee influxes from neighboring countries, primarily Ethiopia and Chad. Armed conflict, poor transport infrastructure, and lack ...
www.exxun.com/Sudan/a_fg.html
refugees
Pakistan, with UN and other international assistance, repatriated 2.3 million Afghan refugees with less than a million still remaining, many at their own choosing; Pakistan has proposed and Afghanistan protests construction of ...
www.exxun.com/Afghanistan/i_ti.html
