Sierra
... gangs or, in some cases, their families; women from Indonesia, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Ethiopia, and Sierra Leone are recruited for work in Syria as domestic servants, but some face conditions of ...
www.exxun.com/Syria/i_ti.html
Sierra
... Hong Kong 11, Indonesia 2, Italy 13, Kiribati 7, Liberia 83, Malta 1, Marshall Islands 1, Panama 302, Philippines 1, Sierra Leone 1, Singapore 71, Thailand 1, UK 11, unknown 3) (2008
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Sierra
... Malta 169, Marshall Islands 45, Moldova 1, Netherlands 1, Netherlands Antilles 9, Panama 87, Russia 72, Sierra Leone 12, Slovakia 10, St Kitts and Nevis 32, St Vincent and the Grenadines 20 ...
www.exxun.com/Turkey/g_tr.html
Sierra
... Dominica 4, Georgia 19, Liberia 24, Malta 30, Moldova 4, Mongolia 1, Panama 12, Russia 10, Sierra Leone 10, Slovakia 12, St Kitts and Nevis 8, St Vincent and the Grenadines 13 ...
www.exxun.com/Ukraine/g_tr.html
Sierra
... Netherlands 5, North Korea 5, Panama 104, Papua New Guinea 6, Philippines 1, Saudi Arabia 1, Sierra Leone 8, Singapore 14, Somalia 1, St Kitts and Nevis 19, St Vincent and the ...
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SIES
labor organizations - Electrical Industry Union of El Salvador or SIES; Federation of the Construction Industry, Similar Transport and other activities, or FESINCONTRANS; National Confederation of Salvadoran Workers or CNTS; National Union of ...
www.exxun.com/ElSalvador/d_gv.html
SIEW
chief of state: President MA Ying-jeou (since 20 May 2008); Vice President Vincent SIEW (since 20 May 2008) head of government: Premier (President of the Executive Yuan) LIO Chao-hsuan (since ...
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Sigave
none (overseas territory of France); there are no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US Government, but there are three kingdoms at the second order named Alo, Sigave, Wallis
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SIGFUSSON
Independence Party or IP [Geir H. HAARDE]; Left-Green Movement or LGM [Steingrimur SIGFUSSON]; Liberal Party or LP [Gudjon KRISTJANSSON]; Progressive Party or PP [Gudni AGUSTSSON]; Social Democratic Alliance or SDA [Ingibjorg ...
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sighted
Named after Captain COOK, who sighted them in 1770, the islands became a British protectorate in 1888. By 1900, administrative control was transferred to New Zealand; in 1965, residents chose self-government ...
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sighted
Although first sighted by an English navigator in 1592, the first landing (English) did not occur until almost a century later in 1690, and the first settlement (French) was not established until ...
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sighted
Although sighted by Christopher COLUMBUS in 1493 and claimed for Spain, it was the Dutch who occupied the island in 1631 and set about exploiting its salt deposits. The Spanish retook the ...
www.exxun.com/SaintMartin/a_fg.html
sign
Russia refuses to sign the 1997 boundary treaty due to Latvian insistence on a unilateral clarificatory declaration referencing Soviet occupation of Latvia and territorial losses; Russia demands better Latvian treatment of ethnic ...
www.exxun.com/Latvia/i_ti.html
Sign
English (official), Maori (official), Sign Language (official)
www.exxun.com/NewZealand/c_pp.html
Signal
lowest point: North Sea 0 m highest point: Signal de Botrange 694 m
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signaled
... Qaida (followed by a name change to al-Qaida in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb) signaled an increase in bombings, including high-profile, mass-casualty suicide attacks targeted against the Algerian ...
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signals
AM 1, FM 2 (transmitting on 18 different frequencies), shortwave 0 (British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) station transmits two FM signals with English and Nepali service) (2006)
www.exxun.com/Brunei/f_cm.html
signals
... subscriber systems enhanced with Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) equipment to accommodate Internet and other digital signals; trunk systems include fiber-optic cable and microwave radio relay international: country code - 420; satellite ...
www.exxun.com/CzechRepublic/f_cm.html
signals
120 (plus 431 repeaters) (1999); note - On 1 September 2007, Finland became one of the first countries in the world to broadcast all television signals digitally
www.exxun.com/Finland/f_cm.html
signals
... during World War II for anti-submarine and convoy operations, as well as the collection of signals intelligence. Independence from the UK was attained in 1968. A stable democracy with regular free ...
www.exxun.com/Mauritius/a_fg.html
signals
1 (broadcasting on six channels); additional reception of numerous UHF and VHF signals originating in Malaysia and Indonesia (2006)
www.exxun.com/Singapore/f_cm.html
signatories
... is the major economic activity on Svalbard. The treaty of 9 February 1920 gave the 41 signatories equal rights to exploit mineral deposits, subject to Norwegian regulation. Although US, UK, Dutch, and ...
www.exxun.com/Svalbard/e_ec.html
signatory
... AMF, AMU, AU, BIS, FAO, G-15, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt (signatory), ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU ...
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