Under the scheme, 142,000 minibuses would be converted and another 88,000 old diesel minibuses replaced with biofuel equivalents over the next three years, while more than 350 fueling stations would be built.
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Whenever it broke down, we'd catch minibuses, or sometimes we'd hitchhike.
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His picture is plastered on the sides of minibuses across Hong Kong.
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Jeepneys, informal minibuses, are a ubiquitous form of transportation throughout the Philippines.
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If not, we are going to burn one of your new minibuses.
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Commercial vehicles — a category that includes minibuses and vans — offer an opportunity.
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Across the country, haitianos loaded minibuses and trucks and headed toward the border.
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Didi runs car pools, minibuses and buses in addition to taxis and luxury cars.
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People hang out of minibuses or are forced to squash up, faces against windows.
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Now the men in khaki share the road with minibuses full of camera-wielding tourists.
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Throughout Wednesday in Yerevan all main streets were blocked by cars, minibuses and garbage bins.
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Amado said the new Uber product would allow customers to track and trace the minibuses.
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Running 19-seat minibuses across the metro area from early Friday evening until 2 a.m.
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At a taxi stand near downtown, commuters jump in and out of minibuses in the rain.
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They cram into cars rapides — minibuses hand-painted in clashing colors — on their way to work.
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In other words, you can't say, 'We're doing minibuses, which means we're only doing certain bills.
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Several Nairobians told Reuters they commute to work downtown in packed minibuses but hail Ubers for emergencies.
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What is revolutionary about the minibuses is not that they're free, but that they're running at all.
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Crowds of children race the streets, jumping out of the way of horse-pulled carriages and sputtering minibuses.
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A Reuters photographer at the scene saw 20 bodies of civilians and burnt-out minibuses, motorbikes and cars.
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Mudanya was working as a tout on public minibuses in the area before he was killed, his father said.
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But the money was enough to buy three new minibuses to transport Torcy&aposs players to matches and training.
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The prime minister's office said it was ordering minibuses and taxis to raise fares by 10-15% across Egypt.
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And they were shuttled around Kabul in ordinary minibuses, not in the armored cars that protect many Western contractors.
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The trafficking ring used mobile homes, minibuses and cars to smuggle migrants into Germany, a federal police statement said.
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Very few people believe the minibuses will have much success in the post-election session right before the holidays.
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"Minibuses are the main way of [getting] around and there are no websites for that," the 20-year-old said.
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Over the next four to five years, Panda New Energy will buy 103,000 minibuses and 50,000 courier vans, Jiang said.
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The service's software then combined requests from several customers and calculated an optimal route for one of its 15 minibuses.
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But with the random checks focusing on trucks, buses and minibuses, haulage operators are worried about lengthier journeys and increased costs.
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Other foreign missions, including the British Embassy, also used minibuses rather than armored vehicles to transport Nepalese contractors, several guards said.
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Brown and pink buildings for his staff dot meticulously landscaped grounds so enormous that staff members are driven around in minibuses.
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"There was a lot of rattling around in minibuses as a heavily pregnant person with a small baby," she has said.
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Lower- and middle-class women have been dependent on mass transit, with buses or minibuses sometimes arranged by employers or schools.
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Zigzagging through the chaotic Cairo streets, minibuses and tuk-tuks carried signs advertising free rides for anyone going to the polls.
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Those with jobs often endure commutes of an hour or more on private minibuses that extract outsize slices of their paychecks.
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The two packages, known as "minibuses," will cover nine of the 12 individual appropriations bills that Congress needs to pass by Oct.
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With its brightly painted minibuses, wooden boats and a flair for colorful fashion, the capital of Senegal is a paradise of cool.
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" He described the minibuses as "bite-sized" packages of spending bills that members would be able to "digest and look at carefully.
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According to the AEB lobby group, its sales of light commercial vehicles, or vans and minibuses, rose 4 percent in 2018 to 60,677.
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The club says it received about 400,000 euros and has spent some of it on two new minibuses, movable goals and other equipment.
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Many Middle Eastern countries started to invest in buses only around a decade ago, but public networks are still limited; private minibuses abound.
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At its entrance, where ragged minibuses push their way through rutted red mud, stalls sell piles of pillows, plastic toys, cutlery and soap.
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At its entrance, where ragged minibuses splash their way through rutted red mud, stalls sell piles of pillows, plastic toys, cutlery and soap.
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In his artwork, Mr. Soi regularly uses references to materials and objects that are uniquely Kenyan, like Tusker beer bottles ore matatu minibuses.
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But the throngs of passengers making use of the minibuses in Tel Aviv on a recent Friday had little interest in such quibbles.
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Mohammed Ali, a driver, says that a year or so ago there were 130 minibuses working his route; now there are only seven.
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Millions of people daily pay fares to pack onto East and West Africa's Mutatu and Danfo minibuses and Okada and Boda Boda motorbike taxis.
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"I don't know why you would talk about minibuses, unless you want to leave somebody off the bus," Hoyer told reporters in the Capitol.
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About 2,500 people visit Liangjiahe each day, People's Daily reported, and many of them are ferried in on minibuses after paying a $3 ticket.
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A motorcade including sedans, minibuses, motorcycles and a stretch limo with a golden emblem similar to one Kim used previously was seen leaving the airport.
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Driverless vehicles can develop as solo cars serving distant houses with limited stops, or as minibuses (and big buses!) serving denser neighborhoods with frequent stops.
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Some of those who had been taken to hospitals returned to the camp in the afternoon, in ambulances or in minibuses, many holding serum bags.
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The Army ambulances carrying the bodies, and three minibuses carrying the mourners, passed through the Baharistan area, where Raju Singh had his herbal medicine shop.
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Russian exports include hundreds of cars and minibuses as well as dozens of locomotives that have helped Cuba battle a severe shortage of public transport.
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The minibuses sport designs celebrating Premier League football clubs such as Arsenal, Manchester United and Chelsea and portraits of artists, from Ariana Grande to Bob Marley.
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On the coast, at least one trafficker escaped on foot, while officers towed away the half-dozen or so minibuses they had driven to the coast.
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THE old taxi park in central Kampala, Uganda's noisy, traffic-clogged capital, is a huge patch of bare earth and mud filled almost entirely with minibuses.
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The first of three planned minibuses that would fund nine of 12 appropriations branches, this was considered to be the least controversial of the spending packages.
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Prosecutors said they believed the trio hired minibuses and drivers to transport the mostly Syrian migrants to Scandinavia from Milan train station in Italy in 2014.
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Those Russian exports include hundreds of cars and minibuses as well as dozens of locomotives that have helped Cuba battle a severe shortage of public transport.
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"Last month sales were really bad, I only sold a couple of vehicles," said the Chinese trader who sells new trucks, vans and minibuses to North Korea.
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MULTI-COLOURED minibuses, shabby motorbike-taxis, white four-wheel-drives and battered jeeps stream through the centre of Freetown, overtaking on both sides, hooting as they go.
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"There was one guy who called in who said he played my show in his matatu," she said, referring to the privately owned minibuses used in Kenya.
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By early afternoon, dozens of the asylum seekers had been removed from the camp and placed on three minibuses, said refugee advocates who were at the scene.
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The vehicle, which is still in the conceptual stage, will be 6 meters (20 feet) long, or about the size of two minibuses, according to Toyota (TM).
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The House and Senate are currently conferencing on two other minibuses, which, combined, represent six of the 12 spending bills that need to pass before October 1.
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The bus station is also filled with service taxis (or servees), which are shared minibuses that take Palestinians to a number of destinations around the West Bank.
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And when FPI organised five minibuses to ferry people from Pasar Ikan to the city centre to join a protest against the governor, Ms Diani willingly climbed aboard.
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In the evening of Thursday, April 7, a fleet of minibuses moved through the suburbs of Cairo, picking up Somalis and Ethiopians from lay-bys and street corners.
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Patriotic songs by well-known singers urged voters to the polls to "do the right thing," and minibuses emblazoned with affirmative green check marks drove them there free.
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The EasyMile minibuses have previously been tested on public roads in Finland and elsewhere, but this is the first time they'll be mixing it up with everyday traffic there.
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Could the 50,000 minibuses and 150,000 taxis in Mexico City, for example, be better deployed as part of a system that encouraged ride-sharing and on-demand re-routing?
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Its level four minibuses with Xiamen King Long are already running in over ten locations throughout China, Baidu's CEO Robin Li said during its Q3 earnings call on Tuesday.
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Dakar is home to the most tricked-out ride of all: the car rapide — multicolored minibuses that zip across the city with painted mud flaps, hubcaps and side mirrors.
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TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia banned minibuses and restricted services of gyms and swimming pools in an effort to prevent the spread of coronavirus, the country's prime minister said on Tuesday.
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TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia banned minibuses and restricted services of gyms and swimming pools in an effort to prevent the spread of coronavirus, the country's prime minister said on Tuesday.
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But approving a short-term bill this month would give Congress more time to approve a series of "minibuses," or smaller groupings of appropriations measure, in the lame-duck.
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"These matters were two among dozens that had to be resolved in order to reach agreement on the two minibuses between both houses of Congress and the White House."
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Burning white minibuses could be seen on a wide main road lined by shops, as well as corpses, some charred and others bloodied, and the bodies of several children.
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With a half-dozen spending bills already passed in the House and Senate, Cole said leadership could create packages of "minibuses," instead of one large omnibus like last year.
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About 300,000 vehicles, mostly taxis and minibuses, have been converted to duel-fuel systems since the 1990s -- a small fraction of the 11 million vehicles licensed in the country.
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"So ... if the minibuses add up to an omnibus — if everything is included — [then] we can vote on something like that when we see the whole package," she added.
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This area is a lot more built up and touristy than other places we've visited and there are a number of large tour busses and minibuses in the parking lot.
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The transport minister, Anne Berner, cites regulations that treat hire vehicles with fewer than seven seats as taxis, whereas minibuses are covered by the same laws as full-sized buses.
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Second, integrating electric, on-demand minibuses operated privately with other forms of public transit could help cities maintain or extend coverage in underserved areas while lowering the cost of service.
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He led us across the street, weaving through pedestrians, cars, minibuses, trucks, motorbikes, and yellow keke tricycles, to a crowd of men gathered around a wooden table under an umbrella.
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Instead, he has called for the massive fiscal 2017 spending package to be broken up into smaller "minibuses" and passed separately — something that more closely resembles the traditional appropriations process.
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Nairobi, Kenya (CNN)In Nairobi, Kenya, an informal network of vibrantly decorated minibuses -- known as matatus -- zigzags through the streets blaring out music and taking commuters to and from work.
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It's also broadening its appeal in terms of reference designs, with new support for minibuses, SUVs and trucks, so a wider range of vehicle makers can make use of its tech.
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A local rebel command center warned people not to use the road after several residents trying to flee in minibuses and cars came under fire from pro-government forces, rebels said.
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A client who owns 32 minibuses pays roughly $1,500 per bus per year—about 3% of revenue—to three gangs, an expense that appears in the account books as "special collaboration".
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden has charged three men with organizing the smuggling of 170 migrants in minibuses from northern Italy across the EU's open-border zone to Scandinavia, prosecutors said on Friday.
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Like many cities around the world, Tel Aviv has ad hoc transport systems; sherut taxis, private minibuses that run up and down certain routes, allow customers to hop on and off.
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In another initiative, the city plans to group together owners of minibuses used as shared taxis, called "trotro", and give them funding to buy larger and more fuel-efficient vehicles, Mensah said.
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Minibuses play an important role in many fast-growing cities, and companies such as RideCell and TransLoc offer routing platforms that transit agencies could use to run their own on-demand fleets.
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For example, Arlington, Texas, a Via client, implemented the software to create a fleet of on-demand minibuses at $3 per ride—the service is subsidized by the city and federal government.
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It's simply a stop in the South African city's sprawling informal taxi network of more than 7,500 unregulated minibuses that shuttle people between the city's center and its outskirts on a daily basis.
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Meanwhile, governments will need to support the growth and development of fleets of 12- or 18-seat minibuses, to supplement (rather than replace) public transit systems, which they will also need to support.
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Manufacturers have proposed new models that look less like jeepneys and more like—whisper it—minibuses, with such frills as side entrances, individual forward-facing seats, air-conditioning, automated fare collection and security cameras.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A court on Tuesday sentenced three men for organizing the smuggling of 80 migrants into Sweden, hiring drivers to bring them in minibuses across the EU's open-border zone from northern Italy.
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In response to questions about the Canadian Embassy's use of the minibuses, a spokeswoman for Global Affairs Canada said in an email message that she could not comment on specific security measures at the mission.
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Georgia has closed its borders with neighbouring countries, banned entry of foreigners, closed winters resorts, restaurants, cafes, nightclubs, gyms and swimming pools and banned minibuses in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19.
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In Moscow, the expulsion of British diplomats went ahead, a convoy of minibuses speeding out of the embassy compound to applause after British embassy staff said their goodbyes in the courtyard under a light snowfall.
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On many days, Mr. Qin's secondhand taxis cross the bridge in a convoy of more than 100 vehicles, including trucks loaded with containers draped in shabby tarpaulins and secondhand minibuses for North Korea's rickety transportation system.
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The expulsion of British diplomats went ahead on Friday, with a convoy of minibuses speeding out of the embassy compound to applause after British embassy staff said their goodbyes in the courtyard under a light snowfall.
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Baghdadi would sometimes hold strategy talks with his commanders in moving minibuses packed with vegetables in order to avoid detection, Ismael al-Ethawi told officials after he was arrested by Turkish authorities and handed to the Iraqis.
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Uber estimates that more than a third of Kenyans in Nairobi use the often crowded minibuses, known as matatus, as their main form of transport around the city, Uber's East Africa General Manager Loic Amado told Reuters.
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There are driverless taxis in Singapore and minibuses in Switzerland and, if you or your neighbor has a recent-model car with adaptive cruise control, lane assist and collision avoidance, it already possesses the technology to drive itself.
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But walking to school every day, she developed a fascination with the noisy, brightly painted matatus – the local minibuses that recklessly ferry commuters through the city's congested roads - which kept the 2100.9000-year-old focused on her future.
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The report envisions a system like that: high-capacity, fixed-route rail and buses as the backbone, supplemented by shared, dispatchable AEVs in a range of sizes, from 18- or 12-passenger minibuses down to single-person pods.
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The low thrumming sound of diesel engines as perhaps 2500 or more police minibuses lined up along the Route de Dunes, which fringes the eastern side of the migrant and refugee camp in northern France known as "the Jungle".
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ADDIS ABABA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On weekday mornings traffic on the road northeast from Jemo into the center of Addis Ababa grinds to a near standstill, as taxis, minibuses and tuk-tuks wrestle for space along the narrow arterial highway.
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Traveling in two minibuses during the morning rush hour, they were passing through a busy intersection known as the Ex-Control Junction when the blast ripped through the traffic, blowing out a wall of a police station and tax collection center.
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IS also tried to transport about 25,000 civilians from Hammam al-Alil, a town south of Mosul, on trucks and minibuses during the hours of darkness early on Monday, probably for use as human shields in defence of IS positions, she said.
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" MCCONNELL SETS STAGE FOR 2019 SPENDING The Hill: "Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Thursday that he intends to pass spending bills for fiscal 543 in groups of 'minibuses,' marking a departure from the previous year&aposs dysfunctional appropriations process.
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IS also tried to transport about 25,000 civilians from Hammam al-Alil, a town south of Mosul, on dozens of trucks and minibuses during the hours of darkness early on Monday, probably for use as human shields in defense of IS positions, she said.
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IS also tried to transport about 25,000 civilians from Hammam al-Alil, a town south of Mosul, on dozens of trucks and minibuses during the hours of darkness early on Monday, probably for use as human shields in defence of IS positions, she said.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Uber Technologies may roll out a new service in Kenya to help users book seats on minibuses that ply the streets of the congested capital, if tests on the product in Egypt and Mexico prove successful, a company executive said on Wednesday.
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Musk is expected to talk a little bit more about how the company plans to finance several of the projects he outlined in his master plan, which includes solar-powered roofs, self-driving trucks and minibuses and a shared network of self-driving cars.
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Now 19, Ms. Agboada has big dreams of going to law school, singing professionally and modeling, but first she needs to complete her final year of high school, which means her day begins and ends on the privately owned minibuses known as tro-tros that she takes to school in Accra, Ghana.
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Those 11 appropriations bills left also have no chance of being passed during the lame duck, so the nation should prepare for a fight over whether a big spending bill, known as an omnibus, or a series of smaller measures, referred to a minibuses, will be used to fund the government through the next fiscal year.
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"I believe the Speaker when he says he would like to have minibuses and a CR but ... when the Democrats are willing to shut down the government every year for the past six years in order to get their way, then the Speaker in the end knows that we have to do an omnibus in December," said Rep.
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Firms such as Bridj are using the wealth of data they collect from users' smartphones to model travel patterns, and thus to run on-demand minibuses in several American cities, including Boston, Kansas City and Washington, DC. Book a ride and the app will show pick-up and drop-off points close to your origin and destination, any walking required and the fare.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellPelosi, Schumer press for gun screenings as Trump inches away The malware election: Returning to paper ballots only way to prevent hacking First House Republican backs bill banning assault weapons MORE (R-Ky.) said on Thursday that he intends to pass spending bills for fiscal 2019 in groups of "minibuses," marking a departure from the previous year's dysfunctional appropriations process.
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