The mountainous region is crisscrossed by back roads and footpaths.
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Musanze in northern Rwanda is the country's most mountainous region.
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The mountainous region is one of China's poorest provinces (see map).
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Mudslides are visible from the air all over this mountainous region.
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Galicia is a mountainous region in northwestern Spain, nestled above Portugal.
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Beyond the coast, the mountainous region of Bosnia presented its own challenges.
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The mountainous region is divided, but claimed in its entirety by both countries.
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Accidents are common in the mountainous region where many roads are in disrepair.
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So why does the mountainous region mean so much to the two countries?
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It goes to the Southern Hemisphere, to a beautifully remote mountainous region of New Zealand.
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The problem is North Korea's climate is tough: It's a mountainous region with harsh winters.
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In Cacua—a verdant, mountainous region in southwest Colombia—Pharmacielo hopes to create positive change.
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Since the bears hail from western China's mountainous region, they're used to the lower temperatures.
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Conflict in mainly Kurdish southeast Turkey generally escalates as spring arrives in the mountainous region.
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Flowers in hand, Putin took a moment to look out wistfully over the mountainous region.
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Her corpse was found on Halloween in a mountainous region of the state, just south of Scranton.
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Thakur comes from a village in Himachal Pradesh, a quiet mountainous region in the north of India.
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Hunters found her corpse on Halloween in a mountainous region of the state, just south of Scranton.
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The group operates mainly around Lake Chad, the Sambisa forest reserve and the mountainous region bordering Cameroon.
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The rain hit a mountainous region, which meant the water picked up speed as it flowed down.
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Tumultuous history Kashmir, a largely mountainous region located between India and Pakistan, has had a tumultuous history.
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Together, they captured the mountainous region of the South Island and the sun-soaked beaches and glimmering ocean.
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They have both been part of the small community of Bountiful, a mountainous region in southeastern British Columbia.
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Nagorno-Karabakh is a mountainous region within Azerbaijan's borders, populated mainly by ethnic Armenians who reject Azerbaijan's rule.
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As one of five children growing up in that mountainous region, he developed an early interest in nature.
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An article last Sunday about a mountainous region of Bolivia rendered the name of an indigenous people incorrectly.
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In Kashmir, a mountainous region that both India and Pakistan claim, Mr. Modi might try to tighten control.
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After receiving extensive arms training, Harun fled with other fighters to the mountainous region along the Pakistan border.
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Kashmir has always been a sensitive topic for both countries, which have fought two wars over the mountainous region.
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The reality is of course, that the experience is simply a scenic ride through a mountainous region of Switzerland.
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Masada dates to King Herod, a massively influential ruler of ancient Judea, a mountainous region of modern day Israel.
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Rivers in the mountainous region were flooding Saturday afternoon, and levels still were expected to rise, the governor said.
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TRAVEL An article last Sunday about a mountainous region of Bolivia rendered the name of an indigenous people incorrectly.
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Meanwhile in western Pakistan, heavy snowfall in southwestern Balochistan destroyed several houses in the mountainous region, killing 17 people.
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Earlier this month a Buddhist organisation in Ladakh, a mountainous region on the borders of Tibet, issued a stark warning.
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There is limited entertainment in this mountainous region of central Romania after the bars and restaurants close by 473 p.m.
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The violence followed a week of hostilities in Kashmir between India and Pakistan, both of which claim the mountainous region.
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The status of Kashmir has been disputed for decades, with India and Pakistan claiming large chunks of the mountainous region.
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The structure did not move despite the background surrounding atmospheric winds, remaining stationary above a mountainous region of the planet's surface.
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Some 30 brown bears now make this picturesque mountainous region their home, much to the chagrin of some farmers and locals.
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Nearly 20 cm (8 inches) of rain fell in the mountainous region in less than 24 hours, according to the report.
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The remote and mountainous region is struggling to recover from February's quake, which caused landslides that buried homes and cuts roads.
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The plane belonging to domestic carrier Makalu Airlines was mostly used for flying food and other supplies in the mountainous region.
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In this mountainous region of the country an atmosphere of permanent and exhausting uncertainty reigns for refugees and aid workers alike.
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Juncos, in a mountainous region southeast of the capital that was slammed with Maria's most powerful winds, remains isolated, alone, afraid.
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It represents five years of work by 200 scientists, and was commissioned by the eight countries who comprise the mountainous region.
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In contrast, the Arabusta bean is grown in the mountainous region of Man, combining the strength of Robusta with floral flavors.
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Al Hoceima is part of a mountainous region of Morocco, the Rif, that has had a rebellious history with the monarchy.
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My sister and I visited Calabria, Italy, a mountainous region where our mother was born, in August to see our family.
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The security situation in the remote mountainous region remains fragile, however, with the presence of a number of different armed groups.
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At least 17 people died in November 2018 after storms ravaged the Dolomites, a mountainous region in Italy, according to Reuters.
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From 2011 to 2016, the study's authors searched for pikas in this mountainous region, looking for droppings and listening for their calls.
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Tensions have run high in the mountainous region since a vehicle laden with explosives rammed into an Indian police convoy on Feb.
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Tension has run high in the mountainous region since a vehicle laden with explosive rammed into an Indian police convoy on Feb.
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He hails from the town of Breil-sur-Roya in the Valle de la Roya, a mountainous region on the Italian border.
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A bridge under construction in a mountainous region of central Colombia has collapsed, throwing 10 workers about 900 feet to their deaths.
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Stretched across a mountainous region that spans Syria, Iran, Turkey, and Iraq, the Kurds are the world's largest ethnic group without a state.
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Those boys, those girls... They found her in a veterans' home, somewhere in [the mountainous region of] Altai, 30 years after the war.
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India and Pakistan's conflict over the mountainous region of Kashmir dates back to 1947 when both countries became independent from British colonial rule.
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"This appeal concerns the straight-horned markhor, an impressive subspecies of wild goat that inhabits an arid, mountainous region of Pakistan," he wrote.
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In the mountainous region around the small town of Aranayake, more than 130 people were still missing and believed dead, said Maj. Gen.
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If you're a man planning a major trek in the Himalayas or some other mountainous region, I have two things to tell you.
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Most of those killed were elderly; some were trapped under collapsed buildings, while several died in fires and landslides in the mountainous region.
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The flooding was particularly harsh because much of the rain fell over a mountainous region and then funneled down, causing heavy flash flooding.
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He also has more wines from Auvergne, a mountainous region in central France not known for viticulture, than I have ever seen anywhere.
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The remote mountainous region of Ladakh, currently part of Jammu and Kashmir, will also be separated and turned into a standalone union territory.
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In July, 10 people aboard a small aircraft died after it crashed in the Aberdare forest in the mountainous region of the country.
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In a statement posted on Twitter, Thomas said it's true there are better planes to fly in such mountainous region, but they are expensive.
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The remote mountainous region of Ladakh, previously a part of the state, was separated and turned into another standalone territory, the Home Ministry announced.
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She has stayed in the race in Guachochi, located in a mountainous region of Chihuahua state that is a key route for heroin trafficking.
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The mountainous region of Kashmir has been a source of conflict between the two countries since their independence from British colonial rule in 1947.
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That's when the rural, mountainous region in the interior lost power and his father, Roberto Morales, and his wife started living off a generator.
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Many of those killed were older people; some were trapped under collapsed buildings, and several died in fires and landslides in the mountainous region.
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They had noticed that above a mountainous region called the Aphrodite Terra, the winds were about 18 percent slower than in the surrounding area.
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In his own speech, Aliyev brought up Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous region within Azerbaijan's borders, populated mainly by ethnic Armenians who reject Azerbaijan's rule.
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Security sources also said that Turkish warplanes hit PKK targets in the mountainous region of the southeastern Sirnak province, near the border with Iraq.
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I was sitting in the carpeted meditation hall of an 1,100-year-old Buddhist temple in Koyasan, in a mountainous region of southeastern Japan.
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While with family members in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, a mountainous region on the border of Montana and Idaho, Laga's brother's horse went lame.
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The new resident imam, the post said, was born in the "beautiful mountainous region between India and Pakistan," and immigrated to England at age 4.
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Marquez's activism has focused on La Toma, a mountainous region where Afro-Colombians - a population originally brought as slaves from Africa - have lived for centuries.
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Kashmir is divided between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan, and both claim it in full and have fought two wars over the mountainous region.
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In February 2018, a commercial jet belonging to Iran Asseman, a domestic carrier, crashed in a mountainous region of the country, killing all 66 aboard.
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He eventually called the company Patagonia, a homage to the vast mountainous region at the southern tip of South America, where he had recently traveled.
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NORCIA, Italy — Over centuries, residents of this Umbrian city and its environs have grown accustomed to the ragged tempo of earthquakes in the mountainous region.
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Tusnad paid for the drilling rights by sending the central authorities in Bucharest a train load of potatoes, the main crop in this mountainous region.
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According to prosecutors, Jones was a client of Birgfeld's and killed her in 2007, later dumping her remains in a mountainous region in Colorado's Delta County.
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Idukki, a small land-locked mountainous region located near the southern tip of India, has historically been ideal for cardamom, which demands heavy rains to thrive.
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The Jefferson County Sheriff's Department tweeted Tuesday afternoon that the lockdown included Columbine as well as 22019 other schools in the mountainous region around Colorado's capital.
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It was on a path toward Yunnan Province, where it was expected to weaken significantly over the mountainous region, which borders northwestern Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar.
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The remote mountainous region of Ladakh, currently part of Jammu and Kashmir, will also be separated and turned into a standalone union territory, the government said.
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For decades, the mountainous region of Jammu and Kashmir has been a flash point for India, which is predominantly Hindu, and Pakistan, which is mostly Muslim.
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The five were from the engineer corps and helping clear roads covered by landslides in an area of Gilgit-Baltistan, a mountainous region that borders China.
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Summer is a good time to visit the mountainous region of Ladakh, where a two-week trekking tour is available in June (from $1,879 versus $2,349).
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Beatriz was expected to weaken once it hit land in southwestern Mexico on Thursday evening, the NHC added, and peter out over the mountainous region on Friday.
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Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)All 10 people aboard a small plane which crashed Tuesday in a mountainous region in central Kenya are dead, government officials told CNN Thursday.
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So, he sent her to a mountainous region in her home state of Durango, where she had ties to a community that included marijuana farmers and producers.
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The security officials believe that Mr. Mohmand is currently hiding out on the country's border with Afghanistan, a mountainous region that the military has struggled to patrol.
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I have yet to taste Dragash, which emanates from a mountainous region of Kosovo, but, if it proves to be anything but wolfish, I shall be disappointed.
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Last month for the first time in seven years, aid workers were allowed into Jebel Marra, a mountainous region in central, north and south Darfur where fighting persists.
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Like Winter's Bone, Gone Girl brought the Ozarks to the big screen in 2014 — and in doing so, furthered the association between the mountainous region and shady crimes.
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In the Philippines, between 40 and 50 people, mostly gold miners, were trapped in a landslide in a mountainous region in the north of the country on Saturday.
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The Lebanese army did not take part in the July operation, but it has been gearing up to assault the Islamic State pocket in the same mountainous region.
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In the mountainous region of the Sierra Madre in Sinaloa, Mexico, countless people have fled their homes in the wake of the ongoing violence of the drug industry.
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More than 100,000 people have been displaced in the mountainous region bordering China and India since 2011, when a ceasefire between the government and Kachin insurgents broke down.
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TEHRAN, Iran — A commercial plane crashed on Sunday in a foggy, mountainous region of Iran, most likely killing all 19803 people on board, the state news media reported.
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And he made specific reference to the Oasi Zegna, a large nature reserve Mr. Zegna's grandfather set up in the 1930s in the mountainous region of their factories.
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Later, in Delhi, Stack hired Mary and Pooja, women from the mountainous region between Bhutan and Nepal who had also left their children in the care of relatives.
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News Analysis I spent my early childhood in a mountainous region in the southern Dominican Republic, living in a house made of wooden planks with a tin roof.
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It is a remote village in the mountainous region at the northern end of the Philippines, one of the places where the country's indigenous Kalinga culture remains strong.
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The Amulsar gold mine, located in a remote mountainous region, has been in development by Lydian International since 2016, with an investment of nearly $500 million so far.
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MUZAFFARABAD, Kashmir — At least 55 people have been killed and dozens injured as avalanches swept away homes in the mountainous region of the Pakistan-controlled portion of Kashmir.
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Poor cell phone coverage after the fire has exacerbated the problem, in a mountainous region where some areas got little or no phone reception even before the fire.
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Environmentalists fear a mine could leak toxins into the Chilkat River, kill the fish that draw eagles to the pristine, mountainous region every year and ruin a national treasure.
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She spent her 16th birthday in Peru making bricks out of mud to help villagers construct shelters for guinea pigs, an important source of protein in the mountainous region.
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The mother of two small children, Flores covered the police beat for the newspaper El Sol de Orizaba in the central mountainous region of the southern state of Veracruz.
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The full cost of producing each cubic metre of gas at its flagship shale project Fuling, in the southwestern mountainous region of Chongqing, was around 1.1 yuan, Ma added.
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They also need the land to reduce their reliance on rice imports and keep rural jobs in the mountainous region where only a third of the land is cultivatable.
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The Kurds are mainly Sunni Muslims who speak a language related to Farsi and live in a mountainous region straddling the borders of Armenia, Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey.
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Kashmir, a largely mountainous region located between India and Pakistan, has been bitterly contested by both countries following partition in 1947, leading to three wars and numerous other skirmishes.
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Habib Shah Ansari, head of the health department in Khost, a mountainous region on the border with Pakistan, said 17 were confirmed dead from the blast with 34 injured.
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While the mountainous region is best known for its winter ski fields, it also attracts large numbers of tourists in summer drawn by the cooler climate and outdoor activities.
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We explored the roots of their conflict in the bloody partition of British India in 1947, which produced an intractable territorial dispute over the snowy, mountainous region of Kashmir.
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Especially if that storm was hanging out in the middle of the ocean, or even in a mountainous region like the western US, where the topography fouls up radar signals.
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The escalation in tension came after a suicide car bombing killed 40 paramilitary troops in Pulwama in Indian-administered Kashmir, a mountainous region also claimed by Pakistan, on Feb. 14.
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According to Russia's space agency Roscosmos, the cargo ship was lost at an altitude of 120 miles (190 km) over an unpopulated mountainous region in the Siberian republic of Tuva.
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While Kylie, 14, McKenzie, 9, Cody, 573, Jake, 6, Xander, 4, and Brixon, only nine months, waited for Devin, he bravely made his way through the mountainous region for aid.
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PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill flew over the worst-hit areas on Wednesday after a magnitude 6.7 aftershock struck the mountainous region already reeling from a 7.5 quake on Feb. 26.
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Like French wines, it is only grown in tea estates centered around a small mountainous region in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, which has the perfect soil and climate.
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What sets the huge December wave apart from previously discovered ones is that it appeared to be stationary above a mountainous region on the planet's surface, despite the background atmospheric winds.
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Speaking at her home in a mountainous region of western Guatemala, Catarina Alonzo said neighbors had told the family that taking a child would provide her husband with a way in.
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One of the landslides buried three villages in the mountainous region of Aranayake, claiming at least 14 lives, with more than 130 people still missing and feared dead, said Maj. Gen.
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A thorough viewing of ''Refuge d'Art,'' a series of 11 Andy Goldsworthy installations strewn across a remote and mountainous region of Haute-Provence, requires walking nearly 100 miles of ancient footpaths.
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TEHRAN — Search-and-rescue workers continued to scour a mountainous region of Iran on Monday for a plane that crashed a day earlier, most likely killing all 66 people on board.
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US-Bangla said Sultan, a former Bangladesh Air Force pilot, had landed more than 100 times at Kathmandu, where wind shear and bird hits are frequent hazards in the mountainous region.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - All 22003 passengers and crew were feared dead in a plane crash in central Iran on Sunday after the domestic flight came down in bad weather in a mountainous region.
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In the latest flare-up in violence, two men died in firing by security forces trying to quell stone-throwing protests that broke out in towns and villages across the mountainous region.
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Iguala is a key entry and exit point for the isolated mountainous region where large amounts of opium poppy is cultivated in a patchwork of territories controlled by various different criminal groups.
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The bodies were found abandoned in a mountainous region of Buleda, in Baluchistan province, 600 km (370 miles) south of the provincial capital of Quetta, district commissioner Bashir Ahmad Bangalzai told Reuters.
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"It is a symptom of how the political class want to prevent change," said Sofia Castanon, a well-known poet and Podemos delegate for Asturias, a mountainous region on Spain's northern coast.
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Saad Zuberi was part of the VICE News team who travelled to Kohistan, a mountainous region in northern Pakistan, to produce The Kohistan Story: Killing for Honor, a film published on Monday.
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That's why ConPRmetidos has helped coffee farmers, located in Puerto Rico's mountainous region, to collect equipment and replant trees in the hopes of replenishing even a small portion of what was lost.
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One of Myanmar's most powerful rebel groups, the KIA has regularly clashed with government troops in the mountainous region bordering China and India since 7003, when a 17-year-old ceasefire broke down.
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The Tennessee Valley Authority, created to provide power and jobs to the hard-hit mountainous region, was formed in part by nationalizing the Tennessee Electric Power Company, over the protests of its executives.
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The militant had been evading Algerian troops patrolling on Wednesday night around Maatkas near Tizi Ouzou in the mountainous region in what was once the stronghold of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
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Rescuers at a Thai cave where eight boys and their soccer coach remain trapped have awoken to cloudy skies, after a night in which heavy monsoon rains lashed the mountainous region for several hours.
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Sixty people, including 31 doctors, were accused of illegally prescribing opioid drugs in exchange for cash and sexual favors in the rural, mountainous region stretching from Pennsylvania and West Virginia to Alabama and Louisiana.
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In the feature's mountainous region, scientists believe that methane snow has settled in the peaks:Scientists think this bright material could be predominantly methane that has condensed as ice onto the peaks from Pluto's atmosphere.
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Muslim-majority Kashmir is divided between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, who both claim the mountainous region in full and have fought two of their three wars over it since their separation in 1947.
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Coleman and Boyle were first kidnapped by militants associated with the Haqqani network, a criminal organization with ties to the Taliban in 2012, while backpacking in a remote, mountainous region outside of Kabul, Afghanistan.
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In 2005, researcher Thomas Fritz visited Cameroon on a music-ethnological research trip and observed the way in which the Mafa—who live in the remote, mountainous region of northern Cameroon—played flutes together.
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The three were killed in a military ambush after an army sweep of the forests of Sid Ali Bounab in Tizi Ouzou, part of the mountainous region east of the capital Algiers, it said.
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A local official and farmers said improved access to water was helping apple growers in the mountainous region sell surplus produce to boost incomes, reducing pressure on men to migrate in search of work.
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HAJJAH PROVINCE, Yemen (Reuters) - Before Yemen's war broke out four years ago Ali Muhammad used to cross the border into Saudi Arabia to work, joining thousands of other Yemenis from his poor, mountainous region.
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Jihadists use the remote, mountainous region along the Algerian border as a base and the military has been hunting them down in the rugged terrain with patrols and air strikes on suspected training camps.
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The bomber drove a car laden with explosives Wednesday into a bus carrying members of the elite paramilitary force in Sistan and Baluchistan province, a mountainous region along the borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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One of Myanmar's strongest rebel groups, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), has regularly clashed with government troops in the mountainous region bordering China and India since 7003, when a 17-year-old ceasefire broke down.
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This February, the agency obligated nearly $17 million to the Puerto Rico Public Housing Administration to relocate two public housing projects in Ciales, a municipality in the central mountainous region, out of the flood zone.
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Turkey has been carrying out regular attacks on PKK camps and related targets in the mountainous region of northern Iraq near the Turkish border since a ceasefire with the PKK collapsed in July last year.
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CreditCreditBrett Gundlock for The New York Times SAN MIGUEL AMOLTEPEC VIEJO, Mexico — For years, two young brothers, like many other farmers in their poor, mountainous region of southwest Mexico, found salvation in the opium poppy.
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CreditCreditBrett Gundlock for The New York Times SAN MIGUEL AMOLTEPEC VIEJO, Mexico — For years, two young brothers, like many other farmers in their poor, mountainous region of southwest Mexico, found salvation in the opium poppy.
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MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' environment minister on Monday ordered the stoppage of all small-scale mining activities in a mountainous region in the country's north following major landslides after super typhoon Mangkhut hit the country.
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Boko Haram has since reverted to raiding villages for provisions or hitting soft targets like places of worship and markets and are mainly around Lake Chad, the Sambisa forest reserve and the mountainous region bordering Cameroon.
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The original caption reads: Afghan girls lined up to have their nails painted by an American soldier who joined German troops during a long-term patrol in the mountainous region of Feyzabad, east of Kunduz, Afghanistan.
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One example was the Battle of Dak To. By 1967, much of the fighting in South Vietnam was concentrated in the highlands, the mountainous region along the Laos-Cambodia border encompassing Kontum, Pleiku and Darlac Provinces.
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In Coudersport, Pa., a town in a mountainous region an hour's drive from the nearest Walmart, Cole Memorial Hospital counts on two Jordanian physicians to keep its obstetrics unit open and is actively recruiting foreign specialists.
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The Wampus cat is the legendary "big cat" of the rural US that still maintains the status of a recurring folkloric legend, as anyone who's grown up near a wooded area, swamp, or mountainous region can attest.
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Growers in Central Otago - a mountainous region well-known as a backdrop in the 'Lord of the Rings' films - are paying thousands of dollars an hour to fly helicopters over trees to stop rainfall from cracking fruit.
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Kate and Prince William traveled to the mountainous region of Lake District (where Kate spent happy childhood vacations) on Tuesday to talk to farmers — and get their hands dirty by helping with a bit of sheep shearing.
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Nowhere, perhaps, has this been clearer than in Appalachia, the vast mountainous region that has long been home to the kind of economic scarcity that famously prompted Lyndon Johnson to declare war on rural poverty in 225.
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His other siblings, Kylie, 14, McKenzie, 9, Cody, 8, Jake, 6, Xander, 4, and Brixon, only nine months, waited for Devin as he bravely made his way through the mountainous region in an attempt to find help.
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TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgian police used tear gas and rubber bullets on Sunday to break up a protest by residents of a mountainous region against the construction of a hydropower plant, the independent Rustavi-2 TV station reported.
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MANILA, Sept 17 (Reuters) - The Philippines' environment minister on Monday ordered the stoppage of all small-scale mining activities in a mountainous region in the country's north following major landslides after super typhoon Mangkhut hit the country.
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The capture of the town in the northeastern mountainous region allows the army and its Iranian-backed allies to begin wider operations to regain rebel held town of Jisr al Shughour, northeast of Kansaba in Idlib province.
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The problem is that North Korea's climate is tough for that kind of life: It's a mountainous region with harsh winters — only about 20 percent of the land in North Korea is arable, according to the CIA.
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Read more: Meet the Americans, Brits, and Europeans flocking to Italy's rural ghost towns to buy abandoned, dilapidated homes for $1In Molise, a mountainous region on the country's Adriatic eastern coast, authorities have taken things a step further.
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The Kachin Independence Army (KIA), one of Myanmar's most powerful ethnic minority insurgent forces, has regularly clashed with government troops in the mountainous region bordering China and India since 2011, when a 17-year-old ceasefire broke down.
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Acuna's home in a remote area four hours drive from Cajarmarca, the capital of the mountainous region, was destroyed as part of the mine project and the family's attempts to rebuild have been blocked several times since 2011.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Foreigners can't handle Tibet's high altitude so China needs to restrict access, the top Chinese official in charge of the remote and mountainous region said on Wednesday, defending tough government restrictions on who can go there.
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A vehicle carrying Karina Garcia, a Liberal Party candidate in the municipality of Suarez in Cauca province, and the other victims was shot at while it traversed a highway in the mountainous region, before being set on fire.
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The mountainous region declared independence from Georgia in 1990, but it wasn't until Russia invaded in August 2008 and recognized South Ossetia's statehood that tensions began to rise, leading to a five-day war between Russia and Georgia.
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On Monday, anti-government protesters in Sacaba, a city in the mountainous region of Cochabamba that has been hit hard by violence, held a moment of silence for nine people killed in clashes with security forces this month.
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Officials say the aircraft suffered engine problems soon after take off from the mountainous region of Chitral last Wednesday, but it is not clear what caused the crash about 50 km (31 miles) from the capital, Islamabad, its destination.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine rescuers worked with bare hands and shovels to try to free 23 people trapped under earth and rubble on Wednesday, after Typhoon Yutu dumped heavy rains on the northern mountainous region, triggering floods and deadly landslides.
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Hundreds of trees in the Dumbrava Forest of Gorj County, a mountainous region in Southwest Romania, have been painted all the colors of the rainbow to protest the illegal logging activity that's run rampant in the area for years.
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He tells TechCrunch Homie has taken over the millennial market along the Wasatch Front, the area linking a mountainous region from Provo to Ogden, Utah, since launching 22014 months ago, and it now plans to do the same in Phoenix, Arizona.
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The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment found that even if the world were to meet the Paris climate agreement's most stringent global warming target, one-third of the glaciers in the mountainous region would still melt by the end of the century.
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As Midge suggests when she insists on leaving the city for two months, even with her comedy career heating up, these extended summertime escapes to the mountainous region upstate were standard for many city-dwelling Jewish families of a certain means.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - At least 17 people were killed and 31 were injured when a bus plunged some 90 meters (300 feet) off a roadside in a mountainous region of southern Mexico near the Guatemalan border, authorities said on Sunday.
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Officials say the ATR-42 aircraft suffered engine problems soon after take off from the mountainous region of Chitral but it is not clear what exactly caused the crash about 50 km (31 miles) from capital Islamabad, its final destination.
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This mountainous region was a crossroads of influences from east and west, but Armenian art scrambles simple understandings of "Europe" and "Asia," exhibiting a stylistic cosmopolitanism even as it used Christian identity to define itself within the world of Islam.
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All of the factories from which PVH ordered ties — to the tune of more than 20 million pounds since 2007 — were situated in one small Chinese city called Shengzhou sitting in a valley in a mountainous region within Zhejiang province.
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If you have not seen Black Panther yet, I'm not giving anything away by telling you that Wakanda, the make-believe country in Africa where it is set, sits in a mountainous region where the imaginary metal vibranium is plentiful.
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Mattis says he fully expected to deploy his Marines to destroy al Qaeda's high command, and he had a well-developed plan for how he would try to seal off the mountainous region of Tora Bora so bin Laden couldn't escape.
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But their protests have angered some locals eager for jobs in the remote, mountainous region, with mining firm Lydian International saying it has had to axe more than 1,000 jobs and lost more than $60 million since the blockade began.
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The bucolic scenes, shown on Chinese state television, cast Mr. Xi as a paternal leader in the footsteps of Mao, at home with the rustic virtues that once made this mountainous region of southeast China a birthplace of the Communist Party's rural revolution.
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UCAB, Philippines (Reuters) - Hopes of finding survivors in the rubble of a huge landslide in the Philippines faded on Monday as rescuers in a remote mountainous region struggled to reach dozens of people feared trapped, two days after a powerful typhoon struck.
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The U.S. president has previously offered to mediate between India and Pakistan on Kashmir, a mountainous region which has been the source of repeated confrontations between the two nuclear-armed neighbors ever since they gained independence from British colonial rule in 1947.
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The gang spirited the migrants from the mountainous region along the southern border with Greece across Albania and into Montenegro to the north, a police statement said, whence they apparently proceeded into neighboring Croatia, the nearest European Union territory, and points further north and west.
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The third powerful earthquake to hit Italy in two months spared human life Sunday but struck at the nation's identity, destroying a Benedictine cathedral, a medieval tower and other beloved landmarks that had survived the earlier jolts across a mountainous region of small historic towns.
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He has acted in only two East-West movies: a deep-sea epic funded by a Chinese billionaire with a predominantly foreign cast, and a bigfoot movie shot in Shennongjia, a mountainous region in Hubei Province, where there have been hundreds of purported bigfoot sightings.
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MEXICO CITY, May 21 (Reuters) - At least 12 people were killed and up to 30 were injured when a bus plunged some 90 meters (300 feet) off a roadside in a mountainous region of southern Mexico near the Guatemalan border, authorities said on Sunday.
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It began in the village of Fengchen, in the town of Heshang, in the Changle section of Fuzhou City, in Fujian Province, a mountainous region on the eastern coast of China that rests against the commingled waters of the South and East China Seas.
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In the first incident, a military statement said the attackers were "terrorists from across the Afghan border" who opened fire on a border patrolling party in North Waziristan, a mountainous region located in Pakistan's northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which is close to the Afghan border.
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A Georgian official confirmed to Business Insider some of his history: that Khangoshvili was instrumental in negotiating a peaceful solution to an armed standoff and hostage situation between Georgian government troops and Chechen militants in 2012 in a remote mountainous region along the border with Russia.
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In Yi Prefecture, a mountainous region in Sichuan province along a major trafficking route with a high proportion of drug users, nearly five times the national average -- 2.8% of the population -- have hepatitis C, according to a study published in 2017 in the British Medical Journal.
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The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) was launched in a mountainous region of China's Guizhou province, according to state media outlet Xinhua, 17 years after the project was first proposed by Chinese astronomers and more than five years after work began on the $180 million structure.
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Azzan is a major commercial hub of about 70,000 people in an arid and mountainous region and was controlled by al Qaeda for around a year until the group was ejected in 2012 by an alliance of tribesmen and armed residents loyal to Yemen's since ousted central government.
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As helicopter gunships and armed Reaper drones provided cover, the commandos carried out the attack against the home of the Qaeda leader in the rugged mountainous region of Bayda Province, a part of Yemen that has been a focal point of United States military operations over the past month.
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A woman was killed by a landslide in the San Jose de Maipo valley, a mountainous region just southeast of capital city Santiago, while a special police force is searching for another four people in the same area, said Ricardo Toro, the head of Chile's Onemi emergency office.
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When 247 million cubic feet of snow and ice collapsed off a glacier in the dry, mountainous region of western Tibet in 2016, the roiling mass took with it nine human lives and hundreds of animals, spreading more than five miles in three minutes at speeds of nearly 183 miles per hour.
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After a busy weekend, which saw them gather on the balcony of Buckingham Palace for Trooping the Colour (and son Prince Louis' big debut!), the royal couple headed out to the mountainous region of Lake District (where Kate spent happy childhood vacations) to talk to farmers — and get their hands dirty by helping with a bit of sheep shearing.
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Despite her struggle and despite well-documented critiques from human-rights groups, the UN and, most recently, India's own Supreme Court, the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act or AFSPA, which in varying guises has been imposed on restless parts of India since 1958, remains in force across a handful of states and territories in eastern India, a mountainous region of great ethnic and linguistic complexity.
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With this new commercial trial (set to take place later this year after the equipment makes its way to the target site in the next few weeks), Telkom Kenya will be providing access to customers spread out across a number of villages located in a mountainous region of the country at rates on par with what it offers its existing customers through its more traditional network infrastructure.
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PEDROGAO GRANDE, Portugal (Reuters) - A huge forest fire raging since Saturday in central Portugal has killed at least 62 people, most of them dying in their cars as they tried to flee, the government said on Sunday, "The dimension of this fire was such that we don't have memory of such a human tragedy," Prime Minister Antonio Costa said in Pedrogao Grande, the mountainous region about 200 km (125 miles) northeast of Lisbon.
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