The blockading states, meanwhile, have moved on to bigger concerns.
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The citizens of the blockading countries are suffering as well.
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Blockading NMDA receptors increases BDNF in certain regions of the brain.
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They have been blockading motorways across Greece for over three weeks.
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Some of President Petro Poroshenko's rivals have called for blockading the territories.
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The government of President Bashar al-Assad has denied blockading the town.
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Outside, they began waving red flags while blockading the complex's truck entrances.
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The blockading countries may have expected to bring Qatar to its knees.
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In turn, Kurdish regional authorities are blockading the Arab militia and the YBS.
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In 1958, LA's smog brought the city nearly the point of blockading freeways.
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The army supported authorities in blockading main routes to Parliament with large vehicles.
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Are people blockading the offices where those registrations happen to prevent them from happening?
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Striking workers were however blockading its oil terminal in Southern France, the spokeswoman said.
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Reporters on the scene noted that police were blockading the path to Pence's home.
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Peruvians are blockading access to copper mines, while confusion surrounding the president's government persists.
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Farmers have been blockading the highways into Athens with tractors for more than two weeks.
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Madrid let them have the ball and concentrated on blockading its third of the field.
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"We're fed up with it," says an American diplomat in one of the four blockading states.
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The channel had been outlawed and blocked on digital platforms in the blockading countries, he said.
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So a sit-in protest blockading the lobby and walkways could shut it down very quickly.
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In Cairo, the blockading countries said they would meet in Bahrain soon to consider their next steps.
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But there are growing signs that some of the blockading states want to end the feud anyway.
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Upon my arrival, police had "shut it down" blockading the entrance from any additional guests from passing through.
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Instead of blockading the news, each person must develop their own way of getting the news they need.
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Later, the cartel deployed fighters throughout the neighborhood and began burning vehicles and blockading streets throughout the city.
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A Libyan oil source said the group blockading the pipeline since Saturday had also shut it in the past.
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The Houthis say it is fighting extremist groups in Taiz and around the countries and denies blockading basic supplies.
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The four blockading countries have closed their airspace to Qatar's carrier and all but Egypt expelled most Qatari citizens.
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In that battle, Senate Republicans are blockading any vote or hearing on Obama's nominee to replace Scalia, Merrick Garland.
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The police responded by blockading the Serb-majority northern part of the city as they searched for the gunman.
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Waving red flags and clad in ponchos bearing the logo of their union, Unifor, they began blockading truck entrances.
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So it's, the full deposit book of the blockading countries with Qatar is only three to four per cent.
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Heavily fortified Heligoland did not prevent Britain's navy, for example, from blockading Germany from afar in the first world war.
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Lowlanders with close ties to India, fearing the changes would reduce their political clout, protested by blockading the southern border.
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CGT said union members had also downed tools and were blockading Elengy's, Fos and Montoir liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals.
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She told Reuters last week that Europe and the United States should consider blockading Russian ships over the Ukraine crisis.
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The largest group is encircled by the Islamic State, which is blockading 200,000 people in Deir al-Zour, in the east.
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The largest group is encircled by the Islamic State, which is blockading 200,000 people in Deir al-Zour, in the east.
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Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE and Bahrain began blockading Qatar in early June, cutting diplomatic and transport ties with the state.
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The plan affects mainly self-employed professionals and farmers, who have been blockading roads and border crossings in protest for weeks.
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The campaign to shut down the plant, so far, has included blockading a train bringing coal to the plant, resulting in arrests.
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Brazil has seen a widespread truckers' strike blockading highways, after diesel prices hit record levels, forcing the government to cut fuel taxes.
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LNA brigades launched a ground offensive in Derna last month after encircling and largely blockading the city over the past two years.
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"The lack of revenue caused by blockading facilities means that we will have to reduce our costs," NOC Chairman Mustafa Sanalla said.
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"NOC is thankful that those blockading the site stood-down following the corporation's public warning regarding this activity," it said in a statement.
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It has had a rocky relationship with the company, reflecting concerns over economic and environmental issues, blockading the mine access road in 2013.
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Police responded by blockading the village, turning it into a cause célèbre—including in some of the feistier of China's heavily censored media.
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Saudi Arabia and its allies say they are boycotting the country rather than blockading it, but Qatar says its neighbors' actions are unjustified.
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The word precisely describes the blockading, firebomb-throwing, window-smashing, intimidating, club-wielding protesters whose avowed mission is to neutralise a lawfully elected president.
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And so, in propaganda terms, was the video footage of riot police beating protesters who were blockading schools where voting was to take place.
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Some people taking them would complain that the drugs were "bunk" or broken, not aware of those drugs blockading the receptors from being influenced.
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In recent weeks armed bands of men in tattered camouflage had begun doing exactly that, blockading rail shipments from the east, mostly coal trains.
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They had been protesting for months: burning tires in front of supermarkets, dousing government buildings with slurry, blockading roads, dumping potatoes in the street.
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Reid did so, as he explained at the time, because Senate Republicans were effectively blockading a massive number of President Barack Obama's judicial picks.
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In the early years, Nazis were killing Jews in death camps, bombing England, occupying France and Poland, and blockading the Soviets into fearsome starvation.
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The FACE Act prohibits people from trespassing on clinic property and blockading entrances, and law enforcement is supposed to intervene when protesters violate those laws.
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Mr. Duterte has repeatedly urged China to stop blockading the shoal but suggested that he would not make a big deal of the legal case.
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The blockading nations — Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain — insist that Qatar is using an open-door policy to destabilize its neighbors.
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The famine and shortages of medicine result from the Saudis deliberately blockading Yemeni ports, including Hodeida, through which 28503 percent of Yemen's food imports arrive.
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Historically, the Gulf Cooperation Council — an organization of which three of the blockading countries are a part — has played a stabilizing role in Gulf affairs.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - A French television reporter and his crew were arrested on Monday while filming protesters blockading a coal port in Australia's northeastern state of Queensland.
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" The Al Jazeera Media network has launched a social media campaign to defend the network from "the unreasonable demands presented by the blockading countries to Qatar.
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"It's not in blockading the country's economy and preventing people from working that one best defends one's cause," junior economy minister Benjamin Griveaux told RTL radio.
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This and many of the demands from the blockading countries are seen as impossibly broad, leading to widespread pessimism that the standoff will end anytime soon.
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Thousands of farmers have been blockading motorways across the country for three weeks over reforms, which call on them to pay higher social security contributions and taxes.
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As conflict and falling oil revenues caused living standards to slide in Libya in recent years, local groups have tried to press demands by blockading oil facilities.
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Protesters against workplace discrimination in Philadelphia and New York deployed increasingly disruptive tactics, including blockading construction sites, chaining themselves to cranes, and clashing with law enforcement officials.
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Canadian Pacific has joined that call for a nation-to-nation meeting after members of the Secwepemc Nation near Chase, B.C. started blockading the company's western corridor.
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"It's not in blockading the country's economy and by preventing people from working, that one best defends one's cause," junior economy minister Benjamin Griveaux told RTL radio.
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"We have no issues welcoming fans from blockading countries, they are welcome to come now and they will be welcome to come in 2022," Al Khater said.
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It is therefore time for the blockading nations to abandon their delusions of victory, prioritize the security interests of the entire Middle East and end the blockade.
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Looking for leverage, rebels allied with the local insurgents began blockading and bombarding Fouaa and Kfarya, two isolated, pro-government Shiite towns in Idlib Province, in Syria's northwest.
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"I am grateful to have had encouraging parents, who instead of blockading and trouncing my curiosity, allowed me to figure things out on my own accord," he writes.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australian police dropped charges on Thursday against four French nationals arrested this week while filming protesters blockading a coal port in the northeastern state of Queensland.
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"Why should Qatar cut ties with Iran when Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and others among the blockading countries have their own ties with Iran?" said Untermeyer.
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"Reading between the lines, the blockading countries (are) demanding that we have to surrender our sovereignty to end the siege, something which ... Qatar will never do," Sheikh Mohammed said.
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Her new show at Lord Ludd, called Ridin' High, utterly transforms the gallery, with works blockading entrances, rising up towards the ceiling, and settling on the polished wood floors.
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Many observers have linked the fate of Madaya to the regime's strategy to put pressure on rebels in the north, who are blockading the towns of Kefraya and Fua.
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To win over the blockading truckers, who were primarily protesting high fuel prices, the government agreed to lower the average cost of fuel by 46 centavos ($0.12) per liter.
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The PFG signed a deal late last month with Libya's U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) to reopen Zueitina and two other ports that it has been blockading.
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Despite Democratic outrage over the blockading of President Barack Obama's court pick, more Trump supporters than Clinton supporters cited the appointment of justices as "very important" to their vote.
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The Arab nations blockading Qatar say the tiny nation is financing terrorists, interfering in their domestic affairs and growing too close with Iran, all charges that Qatari leaders deny.
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In October last year hundreds demonstrated against the holding of Israeli municipal elections on the Golan, blockading the polling station in Majdal Shams and waving Syrian and Druze flags.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday had called for Saudi Arabia, which began blockading Yemeni ports a month ago, to immediately allow humanitarian aid to reach the Yemen people.
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Reid, who retired in 2016, cast the move as the only tool left to Democrats to counter Republicans' blockading dozens of President Barack Obama's nominees for the federal bench.
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On June 5th Saudi Arabia led other Arab countries in blockading Qatar, alleging that the tiny gas-rich monarchy supports terrorism and is too cozy with Iran—charges it denies.
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Wayne, a 20-year-old student blockading the city's main tax offices, shrugs when asked about his chances of being heeded by Mr Xi. "He is a king," he says.
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An official from Qatar's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) denied claims made by media outlets in the blockading nations that Qatar had refused to allow Saudi Airlines to fly Qatari pilgrims.
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In the 1990s, frustrated over what they saw as destructive forestry practices on their traditional lands, First Nations partnered with environmentalists to fight back against logging companies, blockading roads and protesting.
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The French president had urged the blockading states to lift the embargo "as quickly as possible" during a September meeting with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani in Paris.
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The PFG had struck a deal with the GNA in July to resume exports from Ras Lanuf, Es Sider and Zueitina, all of which the PFG had been blockading for years.
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Masked vandals later looted a nearby coffee shop, pharmacy, a grocery store and several other small shops, blockading a main boulevard with a bonfire and bringing evening traffic to a standstill.
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"The status quo right now is not an option, but economically, Qatar can outlast some of the economic pressure that some of the blockading countries have put on Doha," Hawthorne added.
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He got a job in the capital, Sana, at the traffic court, but with the Saudis blockading the country, there wasn't as much fuel, which meant less driving and fewer cases.
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Volcker's inflation-slaying action spurred massive protests, with farmers blockading the Fed's headquarters with tractors, and builders famously mailing him a wooden 22013x192012 to show their lumber was no longer needed.
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As a result, the issues hasn't attracted as much attention from activists compared to, say, blockading the Keystone XL pipeline: "I don't know that concern is foremost on people's minds," Sandlos admits.
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MELBOURNE, July 22 (Reuters) - A well-known French television reporter and his crew were arrested on Monday while filming protesters blockading a coal port in Australia's northeastern state of Queensland, media said.
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Saudi Arabia has been on a tear this week: launching a massive purge inside the royal family, blockading Yemen where millions risk starvation, and allegedly forcing the resignation of Lebanon's prime minister.
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PARIS, Jan 2 (Reuters) - French police used tear gas to disperse protesters blockading a bus depot in Paris on Thursday, the latest confrontation between the authorities and unions over a pensions reform.
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"Blockading certain sites, disrespecting the law by entering private property, and cutting power, all this is disrespecting democracy and the law, it must be sanctioned," Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said in parliament.
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Farming associations have been blockading highways across the country with tractors for more than two weeks, forcing traffic into lengthy diversions to protest a planned overhaul of the country's troubled pension system.
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"Blockading certain sites, disrespecting the law by entering private property, and cutting power, all this is disrespecting democracy and the law, it must be sanctioned," Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said in parliament.
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The Syrian government and its allies have been steadily encircling the rebel-held east of Aleppo this year, first cutting the shortest route to nearby Turkey, before fully blockading the city this summer.
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"We are disagreeing with [Saudi Arabia] currently when they are blockading Qatar, when they continue the war on Yemen without reason, the way they kidnapped the Lebanese prime minister," the foreign minister said.
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Others tried protest, stripping supermarket shelves of milk, blockading factories with tractors, and starving retailers of lamb (although British farmers are yet to match their militant French cousins, who terrorise towns with manure).
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Rodolfo Illanes, the deputy minister of interior, was killed Thursday in Panduro, where he was meeting with miners who had been striking and blockading roads since August 10, according to the attorney general's office.
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Blockades have been a common feature of the nearly five-year-old civil war that has killed an estimated 250,000 people, with government forces besieging rebel-held areas and rebel groups blockading loyalist areas.
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On Wednesday, the coalition said it would allow aid in through the Red Sea ports of Hodeidah and Salif, as well as U.N. flights to Sanaa, more than two weeks after blockading the country.
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Military experts said that while the U.S. Navy has extensive capabilities in Asia to stage blockading operations with ships, submarines and planes, any such move against China's growing naval fleets would risk a dangerous escalation.
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In July, the Petroleum Facilities Guard force that was previously in control of the ports struck a deal with the GNA to reopen Es Sider, Ras Lanuf and Zueitina, which it had long been blockading.
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The environmentalist group, which brought parts of central London to a halt for 11 days in April, has shifted its focus to 12 sites around Westminster, where its members began blockading thoroughfares on October 7th.
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And as they lay siege to the embassy, setting fire to buildings and effectively blockading embassy personnel in the embassy overnight, Prime Minister Abdul Mahdi found that he was powerless to get them to leave.
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And as they lay siege to the embassy, setting fire to buildings and effectively blockading embassy personnel in the embassy overnight, Prime Minister Abdul Mahdi found that he was powerless to get them to leave.
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"The blockade has been ongoing for two weeks and the blockading nations have offered no formula for resolving the crisis," Sheikh Saif Bin Ahmed al-Thani, Director of Qatar's Government Communications Office, said in a statement.
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HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnamese authorities on Monday used water cannon and electric rods to end a five-month long protest by villagers blockading a textile plant that serves global fashion brands, an official and a villager said.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Protesters blockading pipelines to Libya's Sharara and El Feel oil fields have promised to reopen them and production could restart in the coming days, security officials and an oil industry source said on Wednesday.
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China five years ago started blockading the Scarborough Shoal, a rocky outcrop within the Philippines' 200 mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ), and the United States has warned Beijing against carrying out the land reclamation work there.
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Since the beginning of the crisis, Al Thani said, both the United States and the Emir of Kuwait have helped to calm the rhetoric and steer the blockading countries away from any threat of military action.
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HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnamese villagers blockading a textile plant that serves global fashion brands are seeking the permanent closure of the factory due to pollution concerns, highlighting a growing readiness in Vietnam to campaign over environmental issues.
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Arriving at the entrance to the power station, the action was pretty simple: a handful of scaffolds tied together and plonked in the middle of the road, blockading it, while a guy scaled to the top.
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One such slave was a plasterer named William B. Gould, who famously rowed down the Cape Fear River in a skiff with several others in 1862, eventually reaching Union ships blockading the city from the Atlantic.
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A Total spokesman said on Thursday although refineries were running normally, it faced supply disruption because striking workers were blockading refineries, and one in five service stations in some areas lacked fuel, including some in Paris.
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Farmers, who face a tripling of social security payments under the current pension plan, have been blockading motorways across Greece for the past three weeks and have threatened to descend on Athens with their tractors on Friday.
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"Products originating from the blockading states, which as a result of the blockade cannot pass the Gulf Cooperation Council Customs Territory, have to undergo proper import inspections and customs procedures," a government statement said late on Saturday.
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Blockading Qatar, along with his soulmate Crown Prince Muhammad bin Zayed of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, has failed to win the quick surrender of their irritating neighbor that the two men may have expected.
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"It took time and resources to replace the blockading states' lies with the truth, including inviting delegations to visit Qatar and investigate the blockade for themselves," said Jassim al-Thani, spokesman for the Qatar embassy in Washington.
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"The blockade has been ongoing for two weeks and the blockading nations have offered no formula for resolving the crisis," Sheikh Saif Bin Ahmed al-Thani, Director of Qatar's Government Communications Office, said in a statement on Monday.
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What matters most is not the sheer number of docketed public comments or the enthusiasm of those blockading of the Chairman's driveway, but instead a sober analysis of the need for regulation in light of proven market failures.
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"Tsipras is a liar," spat Yiorgos Kostakiopoulos, a father of three blockading the Kastro junction about 100 km northwest of Athens, who said his livelihood growing wheat and cotton was threatened by plans to overhaul the state pension.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Police in riot gear threw teargas and fired water cannon at Greek islanders as they tried to prevent access to construction sites for new migrant detention centers by setting fires, hurling flares and blockading the gates.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Police in riot gear threw teargas and fired water cannon at Greek islanders as they tried to prevent access to construction sites for new migrant detention centers by setting fires, hurling flares and blockading the gates.
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After losing a gun battle for control of the huge mosque in Sana that bears his name over the weekend, he signaled his willingness to change sides, yet again, if the Saudis would stop blockading and bombing Yemen.
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Haftar's LNA has mobilized around eastern oil ports and fields and their former allies, the Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG) in recent weeks, as the PFG agreed with the U.N. backed Government of National Accord (GNA) to stop blockading the facilities.
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The coalition, which is fighting Houthi rebels, said it would allow humanitarian aid access through Hodeidah and U. N. flights to the capital Sanaa, more than two weeks after blockading the country to stop the flow of arms from Iran.
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"Behind the smokescreen, we believe that the blockading nations are seeking to isolate and punish Qatar for our independence and to retaliate against us for supporting the true aspirations of people against tyrants and dictators," Meshal bin Hamad al-Thani wrote.
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Blockades have become common in the war, with government troops holding rebel-held areas near Damascus under siege for several years and, more recently, rebel groups blockading some territory loyal to Assad, who has the military backing of Iran and Russia.
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The coalition fighting the armed Houthi movement in Yemen said on Wednesday it would allow aid in through the Red Sea ports of Hodeidah and Salif, as well as U.N. flights to Sanaa, more than two weeks after blockading the country.
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"We know blockading countries and their agents are attempting to manipulate and undermine our currency, securities and derivatives, as part of a coordinated strategy to damage Qatar's economy," central bank governor Sheikh Abdullah bin Saud al-Thani said in a statement.
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At the same time MBS has abandoned Saudi Arabia's traditionally conservative foreign policy by launching a war in Yemen, which has turned into a fiasco, and blockading neighboring Qatar, which has devolved into a standoff with no end in sight.
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Peter Harrell, a former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for counter-threat finance and sanctions, said blockading major sectors of North Korea's economy, like textiles, could have an impact and convince Chinese firms to back away from North Korea trade.
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Hours after Mr. Thomas was killed on Thursday, hundreds of protesters flooded the streets of Sacramento, blockading the entrance of a sports arena, over the death of Stephon Clark, 22, who was shot by officers in his backyard on March 18.
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Taking issue with cheap foreign food imports they say are flooding the French market and driving down prices for local producers, they've tried everything from dumping manure on government buildings to blockading borders to pressure lawmakers for better protection of France's homegrown produce.
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KASTRO, Greece (Reuters) - Three years ago, a young Greek opposition politician named Alexis Tsipras clambered onto a tractor to give a rousing speech to hundreds of cheering farmers blockading the roads, vowing to 'crush' harsh reforms that he said were leading nowhere.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - The Saudi-led military coalition fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen said on Wednesday it would allow humanitarian aid access through Yemen's port of Hodeidah and United Nations flights to the capital Sanaa, more than two weeks after blockading the country.
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But it suggests that measures carried out by the government of President Nicolás Maduro, such as blockading Venezuela's borders and imposing restrictions on aid organizations, have made the crisis more acute, as have sanctions put in place by the United States and others.
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Four years ago, when Democrats controlled the Senate and Republican senators were blockading Mr. Obama's appeals court and executive branch nominees, Democrats changed the chamber's rules to bar filibusters for such positions — but left the filibuster rule in place for Supreme Court nominations.
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Josh Holmes, a campaign strategist close to McConnell, warned him that Ted Cruz, the senator from Texas, was likely to seize the issue of blockading Scalia's seat in the debate, which he feared would make it harder to rally support for the idea.
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The law makes invisible the struggles of prisoners who advocate for themselves, punishing them if they choose to litigate, blockading them from receiving outside legal help, and minimizing the availability of real justice for the few who do prevail in a court of law.
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For more than a year, Saudi Arabia has persisted in blockading neighboring Qatar and is now digging a canal to turn it into an island, despite the presence of 10,000 American troops, to punish Qatar for allegedly supporting terrorism and its relationship with Iran.
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Even though Mr. Qaradawi is now 91 and stopped his TV show four years ago, his presence in Qatar is an irritant for Egypt, and his name is featured prominently on a list of 59 people that the blockading countries want deported from Qatar.
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"Without real security in the Donbass (industrialized eastern Ukraine) and an end to the bloodshed on the contact line, the use of heavy weapons and blockading of OSCE access, Minsk is doomed to fail," Kerry told a news conference in Kiev after talks with President Petro Poroshenko.
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Just days after some 8,400 mutinous soldiers marched out of their barracks in Ivory Coast, shooting in the air and blockading roads, the government had caved in, paying each of them 2150m CFA francs ($2167,213) and promising to give them another 22008m before the end of June.
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"Land grabbing by elite individuals and encroachment of the lake by floriculture farms has dispossessed us of our ancestral territories thus denying us access to the lake by blockading access route to the only water source," Jackson Shaa, a community leader, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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"Some foreign entities have violated normal market rules and the spirit of their contracts for non-commercial purposes, blockading and cutting off supplies and taking other discriminatory actions against Chinese companies damaging their legitimate rights and interests, and endangering China's national security and national interests," Gao continued.
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"(The new list) comes as a disappointing surprise that the blockading countries are still pursuing this story as part of their smear campaign against Qatar," Sheikh Saif Bin Ahmed al-Thani, director of the Gulf kingdom's Government Communications Office, said in a statement sent to Reuters.
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Meeting in Cairo, foreign ministers from the four blockading countries — Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain — said they were "disappointed" by the response to their demands, and stepped up their criticism of Qatar, which they say is meddling in the affairs of their countries.
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He's a Mitch McConnell kind of candidate … He is exactly the kind of candidate you'd expect from a Republican Party whose script for several years has been to execute a full-scale assault on the integrity of our courts, blockading judicial appointments so Donald Trump can fill them.
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"The administration is deliberately preventing people from exercising the right to seek asylum at ports of entry by blockading them by collaborating with Mexican authorities to prevent people from getting to ports of entry and by pretending there is a capacity issue which is completely false," Mensing told BuzzFeed News.
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While Infantino has suggested that sharing games with Qatar's neighbors would help heal rifts in the region, a FIFA-led group conducting a feasibility study has concluded that it would be impractical to include the blockading countries, which also include Bahrain, in hosting plans, leaving Oman and Kuwait as favored choices.
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Raid speculation ramped up last month after RCMP began blockading the access road leading to Wet'suwet'en camps about an hour outside of Smithers, B.C. The "access control checkpoint" sparked fears that police would follow the script of a 2019 raid that deployed army fatigue-wearing tactical officers carrying assault and sniper rifles.
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And so, like the Iranians, M.B.S. used his carte blanche from America to project power and stretch far beyond his capabilities: intervening in Yemen, blockading Qatar, abducting the prime minister of Lebanon, cracking down on women driving activists and permitting, if not ordering, his team to murder moderate Saudi democracy advocate Jamal Khashoggi.
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Dozens of synagogues in the city now employ armed security guards, while others which cannot afford to hire armed security have created plans involving blockading attackers from entering synagogue doors and strategies for evacuation in case of an active shooter, according to David Pollock, director of public policy and security at the council.
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"Qatar maintains its position that this crisis can only be achieved through a constructive dialogue ... but the blockading counties are not responding to any efforts being conducted by Kuwait or other friendly countries," Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani told reporters in Doha on Wednesday at a news conference with his Russian counterpart.
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Every seat is filled, and people spill out onto the floor, into each corner of the small, dark space, to listen to members of grassroots climate activism group Extinction Rebellion (XR)—which made headlines in November of 217 after blockading five bridges in central London and promoting civil disobedience as a way to force the government into taking action on climate change.
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Meanwhile, activists all over the country are interfering with oil and coal infrastructure, blockading the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota, temporarily shutting down construction of a section of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline in Louisiana, killing plans for coal ports in Portland, Oregon, and other towns, locking themselves to the doors of banks to get them to divest from fossil fuel projects.
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Keeping both the House and Senate through 85033 ensures enough GOP blockading to severely cripple a Clinton presidency and potentially ensure a first term for current VP nominee Mike PenceMichael (Mike) Richard PenceFEC chair calls on Trump to provide evidence of NH voter fraud Five years after Yazidi genocide, US warns ISIS is rebounding Log Cabin Republicans endorse Trump MORE in 2020.
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He has fanned a war with southern neighbour Yemen which has turned into a humanitarian catastrophe; locked up hundreds of senior business people and Royal family members at Riyadh's Ritz-Carlton in return for $106 billion of compensation for alleged corruption; arrested and held the Lebanese head of state for over a week; self-sabotaged his nation by blockading neighbouring Qatar; and centralised power to an unheard-of degree in the name of overhauling Saudi's oil-dependent economy.
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