Word: peninsulas
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...also noted that the Korean peninsula has only been split for 50 years—after being united as one country for 1,300 years...
...hopeful it will, but the timing is a little difficult," says Lho. Lee's conservative party is facing crucial parliamentary elections on April 9 and desperately needs a majority in the national assembly for the new president to realize many of his policy aims, including denuclearizing the peninsula. North Korea, analysts suspect, will want to put pressure on Lee's policy toward the North, to prevent him from getting off on a normal footing and thereby affect the vote at the polls...
...mean counted in the final tally to choose the presidential nominee. Florida has more than 4 million registered Democrats, but even just taking into account the 1.7 million Florida Democrats who voted in the January primary, that's still a potential alienation of some 400,000 votes, on a peninsula (and the nation's fourth largest state) that ended up deciding the 2000 presidential race by a mere 537 ballots. In addition, some state party leaders tell TIME they privately estimate the Dem dysfunction will cost them at least 1% of Florida's sizeable chunk of independent voters, who number...
...thanks to an influx of immigrant workers from places like the Philippines and India. Mosques are the only houses of prayer in a country where the strict Wahhabi version of Sunni Islam dominates. But Archbishop Paul-Mounged El-Hachem, the papal envoy to the smaller countries on the Arabian peninsula, such as Kuwait and Qatar, has confirmed that talks are under way to establish formal diplomatic relations between the Vatican and Saudi Arabia, and to eventually allow for Catholic churches to be built there. Pope Benedict XVI is believed to have personally appealed to King Abdullah on the topic during...
...YAMAL PENINSULA, RUSSIA Early voting for presidential election begins in remote regions...