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the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (after Sicily and Sardinia)
www.exxun.com/Cyprus/b_mp.html
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... Turkish Cypriots are heavily dependent on transfers from the Turkish Government. Ankara directly finances around one-third of the "TRNC's" budget. Aid from Turkey has exceeded $400 million annually in recent ...
www.exxun.com/Cyprus/e_ec.html
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... minister appointed by the president election results: Vaclav KLAUS reelected president on 15 February 2008; Vaclav KLAUS 141 votes, Jan SVEJNAR 111 votes (third round; combined votes of both chambers of parliament
www.exxun.com/CzechRepublic/d_gv.html
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... has been successful in meeting, and even exceeding, the economic convergence criteria for participating in the third phase (a common European currency) of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), but so ...
www.exxun.com/Denmark/e_ec.html
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... of the Caribbean and the American mainland. In 1697, Spain recognized French dominion over the western third of the island, which in 1804 became Haiti. The remainder of the island, by then ...
www.exxun.com/DominicanRepublic/a_fg.html
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The smallest country in Central America, El Salvador has the third largest economy, but growth has been modest in recent years. Robust growth in non-traditional exports have offset declines in the ...
www.exxun.com/ElSalvador/e_ec.html
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... of large offshore oil reserves, and in the last decade has become Sub-Saharan Africa's third largest oil exporter. Despite the country's economic windfall from oil production resulting in a ...
www.exxun.com/EquatorialGuinea/a_fg.html
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... 42 S, 57 51 W time difference: UTC-4 (1 hour ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time) daylight saving time: +1hr, begins first Sunday in September; ends third Sunday in April
www.exxun.com/FalklandIslands_IslasMalvinas/d_gv.html
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... be harmed by the EU's decision to cut sugar subsidies. Sugar processing makes up one-third of industrial activity but is not efficient. Fiji's tourism industry was damaged by the ...
www.exxun.com/Fiji/e_ec.html
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... nationals abroad; members are indirectly elected by an electoral college to serve six-year terms; one third elected every three years); note - between 2006 and 2011, 15 new seats will be added ...
www.exxun.com/France/d_gv.html
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... to roughly 8%. With at least 75 million foreign tourists per year, France is the most visited country in the world and maintains the third largest income in the world from tourism
www.exxun.com/France/e_ec.html
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slightly less than one-third the size of Connecticut
www.exxun.com/FrenchPolynesia/b_mp.html
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... divided into five administrative districts, two of which are archipelagos, Iles Crozet and Iles Kerguelen; the third is a district composed of two volcanic islands, Ile Saint-Paul and Ile Amsterdam; the ...
www.exxun.com/FrenchSouthernandAntarcticLands/a_fg.html
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... Iles Kerguelen: a little larger than Delaware Bassas da India (Iles Eparses): land area about one-third the size of The Mall in Washington, DC Europa Island (Iles Eparses): about one-sixth ...
www.exxun.com/FrenchSouthernandAntarcticLands/b_mp.html
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... RAWLINGS won presidential elections in 1992 and 1996, but was constitutionally prevented from running for a third term in 2000. John KUFUOR succeeded him and was reelected in 2004. Kufuor is constitutionally ...
www.exxun.com/Ghana/a_fg.html
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... conditions and popular dissatisfaction with corruption and bad governance prompted two massive strikes in 2006; a third nationwide strike in early 2007 sparked violent protests in many Guinean cities and prompted two ...
www.exxun.com/Guinea/a_fg.html
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the third-smallest country in South America after Suriname and Uruguay; substantial portions of its western and eastern territories are claimed by Venezuela and Suriname respectively
www.exxun.com/Guyana/b_mp.html
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... French established a presence on Hispaniola, and in 1697, Spain ceded to the French the western third of the island, which later became Haiti. The French colony, based on forestry and sugar ...
www.exxun.com/Haiti/a_fg.html
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Caribbean, western one-third of the island of Hispaniola, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, west of the Dominican Republic
www.exxun.com/Haiti/b_mp.html
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... years, the candidate with the second most votes serves four years, and the candidate with the third most votes serves two years elections: Senate - last held 21 April 2006 with run-off ...
www.exxun.com/Haiti/d_gv.html
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... several successful initial public offerings in early 2007, by September 2007 mainland companies accounted for one-third of the firms listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and more than half of ...
www.exxun.com/HongKong/e_ec.html
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... held 29 September 2004 election results: Laszlo SOLYOM elected president by a simple majority in the third round of voting, 185 to 182; Ferenc GYURCSANY elected prime minister; result of legislative vote ...
www.exxun.com/Hungary/d_gv.html
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... was divided into the secular state of India and the smaller Muslim state of Pakistan. A third war between the two countries in 1971 resulted in East Pakistan becoming the separate nation ...
www.exxun.com/India/a_fg.html
