Word: regionality
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...CARACAS, Venezuela)-A commercial airliner with 46 people on board was reported missing Thursday over western Venezuela, officials said. Rescuers rushed to a mountainous region of Merida state as authorities struggled to confirm reports that the aircraft had been located...
...Rivero said authorities in Merida state were checking "information regarding the possible discovery of the plane" in a mountainous region of Merida, which borders neighboring Colombia. But he said in an interview on state television that officials have no information on what condition the plane could be in. He did not elaborate...
...once shaggy hair now an aura of white - driving down a lonely East Texas road. He was born not far from there, across the state line in Arkansas, and from 1972 onward, he has nursed the belief that he might somehow reconnect the working-class whites of that region to the Democratic Party. Scant luck so far. But he was still at it in advance of the Texas vote, stumping through places like Tyler and Lufkin and Texarkana and Nacogdoches - proving that the Clintons still believe in a place called Hope...
...says Dr. Said Hakki, an American of Iraqi descent who is now president of the Iraqi Red Crescent Organization. Basic services, such as ambulance dispatches, are almost nonexistent. "The response time in America is about seven minutes. In Saudi Arabia it's nine to ten minutes and in the region it's 12-15 minutes." By comparison, says Dr. Hakki, "the response time in Iraq is two hours to infinity...
...Baghdad." MSF was operational in Iraq in 2003 from April to Nov 2004 when it closed its projects and withdrew their staff. "It became increasingly dangerous to be even associated with a humanitarian organization," he says. Today MSF has an office in the northern Kurdish region of Iraq, where it is considerably safer but also far removed from the treacherous areas to its south...