The work is surrounded by scrubland filled with indigenous plants.
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In fact, he had conditional ownership of three thousand noncontiguous acres of scrubland.
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A "nightmare" was how the rookie described navigating uneven scrubland in the dark.
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The militants buried them in a single grave in the scrubland miles from anywhere.
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Behind the beach a maze of unmarked trails cut through the dense coastal scrubland.
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CHRISTINE PENDLETONCraven Arms, Shropshire Shropshire's hills would not degenerate into scrubland without their "woolly lawnmowers".
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Fourteen of the villagers' hacked-up bodies were found in shallow scrubland graves five day later.
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The men, each toting a Kalashnikov, grabbed her and three friends as they walked through scrubland.
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It would mean that the upland hills, deprived of their woolly lawnmowers, would degenerate into scrubland.
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Bulldozers moving in on scrubland beside the #CalaisJungle to clear access into the camp proper pic.twitter.
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And the acacia trees that pepper the scrubland beyond bloom pink with plastic bags snared in their thorns.
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There was a patch of land behind the clinic, backing onto a public park, that was just scrubland.
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THE desolate hills east of Jerusalem seem insignificant, a barren stretch of scrubland with few buildings or residents.
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This drive through the rolling scrubland of Texas Hill County was once dotted with small oases of civilization.
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We walked along a narrow strip of scrubland, above the flood line, scattering the seeds left and right.
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In more recent history, Ningxia was a poverty-stricken coal region whose dusty scrubland was in danger of desertification.
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When hit with fire like this, many forests return only as scrubland, with trees no bigger than shrubs. Gov.
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The dry scrubland looked like crumpled construction paper, the swirling ridgelines thrown into relief by the late afternoon light.
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Some 400 firefighters struggled to bring the blaze under control in an area largely covered by pine forest and scrubland.
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This windswept scrubland offers little shelter and no sustenance for the few goats brought by destitute refugees to camps here.
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The idea that landowners and farmers will let the land "degenerate into scrubland" is fanciful when land prices have skyrocketed.
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At times the border agents are there, at others they are not, either patrolling the scrubland or just off duty.
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And some, for some reason, decide to take photos of a mocked up Frog bombing over scrubland on a quad bike.
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Groups based in the neighboring country seek to extend their influence over the Sahel, the arid scrubland south of the Sahara.
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Inside, vintage Italian sofas and armchairs in muted tones of green and gray complement the polished concrete floors and scrubland surroundings.
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Camel herders in the arid scrubland east of Addis Ababa report many more such incidents over the previous year of trial operations.
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Nestled in scrubland are rows of depots, mills and furnaces; the complex covers 800 hectares, or four times the size of Monaco.
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Some records do not list a specific location within the camps, which sprawl for nearly 100 square miles of northern Uganda scrubland.
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By Tuesday afternoon, the Mati fire was contained, but the risk remained of it reigniting in scrubland parched by Greece's searing summer heat.
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Streams of people carrying backpacks and sleeping bags made their way along the winding path towards the dense scrubland leading to the border.
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Gardens, ghostly mansions and even grenades have all emerged from Europe's parched landscape as the sun scorches the continent's lawns, fields and scrubland.
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The all-encompassing quiet was interrupted by the muffled thuds of the horses' hooves against the frozen scrubland, sounding like drumsticks against a pillow.
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This red dirt-encrusted region is sprinkled with mines, mostly nickel and gold, interspersed by low scrubland where cattle graze and wild camels wander.
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This red dirt-encrusted region is sprinkled with mines, mostly nickel and gold, interspersed by low scrubland where cattle graze and wild camels wander.
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Today, this area of Kenya is arid scrubland, but back then it was a fertile lakeshore capable of sustaining a significant population of hunter-gatherers.
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A nesting bird in an area of scrubland just inside the ropes between the first and 18th fairways squawked at spectators who came too close.
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Worldnet's offices are far from the Fashion District, in a neighborhood of low brick warehouses and marshy scrubland in Queens, five minutes from Kennedy Airport.
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Zama, a former military hero renowned as a "pacifier of Indians," has been dispatched to Asunción, in the humid scrubland of what is now Paraguay.
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Jihadists are sweeping across the Sahel, an arid swathe of scrubland on the southern edge of the Sahara that stretches most of the way across Africa.
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TV images showed the severely damaged body of the plane after it came to rest in scrubland and a column of smoke rose into the sky.
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Summer fires are a common occurrence in the region and elsewhere in southern Europe, where blazes spread rapidly through forests and scrubland left parched by droughts.
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At the consulate site, mechanical diggers cleared scrubland as workers posted embassy signs along city roads and hung U.S., Israeli and Jerusalem flags from street lights.
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Only 22017 people lived in the area covered by the concession - some 447 square kilometers of hilly scrubland on the northern bank of the Orinoco River.
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The Mexico City-bound Embraer jet smashed into scrubland near the runway shortly after take-off during what passengers have described as strong winds, hail and rain.
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Many questions remained on Tuesday about what happened on that lonely stretch of road a day earlier, amid the rugged scrubland of the Mexican border state Sonora.
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In a video describing the project, it says that it bought "acres" on the US-Mexico border, while displaying footage of wild horses galloping across desert scrubland.
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AIR BASE 201, Niger — Rising from a barren stretch of African scrubland, a half-finished drone base represents the newest front line in America's global shadow war.
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She and her husband have built a small park alongside some scrubland on their 21700 acres, and they enjoy a panoramic view of the Rio Grande Valley.
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"Would you let your kids play in this playground?" one mother yells, pointing to a metal slide that empties inexplicably onto a small rubber landing surrounded by scrubland.
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Army spokesman Souleymane Maiga told Reuters the raiders briefly took control of the base in Nampala, which is set in semi-desert scrubland close to the Mauritanian border.
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The carcasses of goats, sheep and camels strewn around Burao and the vast, dusty scrubland surrounding the small city, are stark reminders of the extent of the hardship.
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Speeding past oil refinery fields and flat, dry scrubland in his motorcade, Trump came across no visible signs that a storm had ravaged the coast 200 miles north.
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Older huntsmen reminisce about their first forays into the thorny scrubland by moonlight; boys imitate their fathers' strides across vast plains as they follow packs of brawny mastiffs.
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At nightfall, two men headed out of the city carrying a basket of meat-scraps, then crouched in a clearing and called out into a patch of scrubland.
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Attacks by jihadist groups have surged in the past year in Burkina Faso and across the broader Sahel region, an arid expanse of scrubland south of the Sahara.
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In another photograph, rocks outline a provisional mosque on the ground, a floor plan without walls, complete with a semi-circular niche gesturing towards Mecca beyond the vast scrubland.
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The Mexico City-bound Embraer 190 passenger jet smashed into scrubland near the runway shortly after take-off during what passengers have described as strong winds, hail and rain.
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The Mexico City-bound Embraer 190 passenger jet smashed into scrubland near the runway shortly after the plane took off from an airport in northern Durango state on Tuesday.
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Situated approximately 30 minutes outside the village of St Remy, the Abbey de Pierredon is located on a mountaintop aerie in middle of 600 acres of forest and scrubland.
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Sorriso only established itself as a town in 1986, roughly a decade after "colonisers", mainly of Italian descent, turned scrubland into farms as part of an Amazon settlement scheme.
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At a bend in a road, they got out, walked through scrubland and forest in darkness, passed through a gap in a low fence — and emerged in Costa Rica.
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According to the map, he would cross the border in twenty-one hundred feet, pass through about a mile of scrubland, and then reach a small road in Canada.
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American officials, citing possible security threats, keep most personnel confined to the 570-acre rectangle of scrubland, which is a 10-minute drive from the center of Djibouti city.
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"There's not a gram of rice growing anywhere here," said Mariano Montilla, a 47-year-old local who lives off the few crops he can coax from nearby scrubland.
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The Woolsey fire, which devastated Malibu this month, and the Thomas fire, which raged around Santa Barbara from December 2017 into the new year, both burned through scrubland, not forests.
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TORREON, Mexico (Reuters) - Fifteen years after her daughter's disappearance, 55-year-old Silvia Ortiz spends day after day raking through arid scrubland in northern Mexico hoping to find her remains.
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Giant wind turbines owned by Neoen, a French company, loom over it in the dusty red scrubland outside Jamestown, north of Adelaide, the capital of the state of South Australia.
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President George W. Bush also read on his summer vacations, and his aides revealed the titles to reporters who traveled with him to the scrubland around his Crawford, Texas, ranch.
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The Mexico City-bound jet smashed into scrubland near the runway shortly after take-off from the city of Durango during what passengers described as strong winds, hail and rain.
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Surveys show two-thirds of people in and around Hawker, gateway to the Flinders, favor construction of a dump on scrubland around 30 km (18 miles) northwest of the town.
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The other day, looking from a great distance on Interstate 15 toward the same lake bed, a few pinpoints of brightness were visible, neon anomalies against the dun-colored scrubland.
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The Mexico City-bound Embraer 190 passenger jet smashed into scrubland near the runway shortly after the plane took off from an airport in northern Durango state on Tuesday afternoon.
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Attacks by jihadists groups have surged in the past year in Burkina Faso and across the broader Sahel region, an arid expanse of scrubland just south of the Sahara desert.
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Outrage over the vet's murder - her charred body was found on scrubland under a flyover - is running high, with protesters and lawmakers demanding tough and quick punishments, including public lynchings.
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"It's as if we could wake up tomorrow and it'd be prohibited," said Juan Carlos Cabral, 56, the long scratches on his nose attesting to a lifetime tramping through the scrubland.
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All 103 passengers and crew survived when the Mexico City-bound Embraer 190 passenger jet smashed into scrubland near the runway during takeoff on Tuesday, evacuating the plane before it caught fire.
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"We have enough food, but we lost our animals," said Aibata Diallo, an older woman living in Barsalogho camp, a collection of tents set up in scrubland for people who fled violence.
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Residents see the new terms as another slap in the face for Turkana, a vast scrubland the size of Sri Lanka where most residents live in villages without power or running water.
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The displaced had walked for days - some with babies on their backs - to arrive at the village of 214,13 people that was already struggling to survive in northern Burkina Faso's barren scrubland.
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As one group charged across a stretch of rocky scrubland toward a mock terrorist hide-out, the other provided covering fire with its AK-47 rifles (shouting "bang, bang" in the simulation).
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TIJUANA (Reuters) - The rust-red U.S. fence along the Mexican border has inspired various quirky architectural structures, from a frontier-themed mansion to a humble treehouse with uninterrupted views across the Californian scrubland.
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After a few minutes exploring the patch of land around the barge (which I'll be honest, just looks like a bit of scrubland to me), Ronaldson finds a whole host of medicinal plants.
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The shift has unnerved African commanders in Burkina Faso and neighboring nations in the Sahel, a vast sub-Saharan scrubland increasingly racked by bombings, massacres, kidnappings and attacks on hotels frequented by Westerners.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - In September, police investigating a wave of killings in the northern Rio de Janeiro suburbs followed a tip to the isolated scrubland near the massive Duque de Caxias oil refinery.
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At the Dangote group's biggest cement plant, an enormous site looming over the scrubland of the central Kogi state, managers admit that they would never have been able to compete under less sheltered conditions.
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Most of those working-class migrants have settled in gritty neighborhoods carved out of desert scrubland that stretches north from the narrow coastal strip where the hotels, golf courses, nightclubs and marinas are concentrated.
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ON THE outskirts of this west Texan city, on top of one of America's most prolific oilfields, sit 230 square miles (600 square km) of scrubland owned by one family for more than a century.
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DRIVING ALONG Hun Sen Boulevard—named after the man who has led Cambodia since 113—a shiny Mercedes-Benz dealership appears in the litter-covered scrubland, its chunky white vehicles nestled behind thick plate glass.
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The fire in Croatia had reached the eastern suburbs of its second-largest city Split, having scorched 4,500 hectares (11,100 acres) of pine forest and scrubland since it started in the early hours of Monday.
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Built from scratch in the early 2000s when the military junta held full power, the city was carved out of an expanse of scrubland nestled between two mountain ranges in the center of the country.
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The owner of a hundred and sixty acres of scrubland, designated for flooding, refused to sell; after Bush threatened eminent-domain proceedings to force a sale, the state ended up paying nearly five million dollars.
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Turkana is also the second-largest county by land mass in Kenya, a vast scrubland long neglected by successive governments based in the capital Nairobi, but counting on future oil production to start making progress.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian hiker said on Wednesday he had to crawl for two days through scrubland before he was rescued after falling six meters (20 feet) down a waterfall, breaking his leg and wrist.
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CONQUISTA DO OESTE, Brazil (Reuters) - The savannah scrubland where Chief João Ponce once hunted deer and wild boar in Brazil has given way to neat rows of soy and corn that a tractor sprays with herbicide.
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The muddled administration policy comes at a time when skyrocketing waves of terrorism and violence have seized Africa's Sahel region, a vast sub-Saharan scrubland that stretches from Senegal to Sudan, and is threatening to spread.
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He said he took a bus to the border from his hometown of Maturin in eastern Venezuela, and then walked 11 miles (18 km) over rolling scrubland to Brazil, with only the few possessions he could carry.
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Surrounded by miles of scrubland, it is located on the highway between Guadalajara, Mexico's second biggest metropolis, and Mazamitla, a mountainous retreat where many city dwellers come to rent cabins in the cool pine forests each weekend.
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The shaky footage showed two women, one with an infant strapped to her back, being led across a patch of dusty scrubland by uniformed men who accused them of belonging to the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram.
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Riding in with assault rifles on motorbikes and in 4X4 trucks, they sent government troops and rangers fleeing from the area in eastern Burkina Faso bordering the Sahel, a belt of scrubland south of the Sahara Desert.
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Police equipped with water canon stood guard as hundreds of migrants - some of whom have lived in the scrubland on the northern French coast for months or years - waited for busses to take them for resettlement across France.
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NIAMEY, Niger — More than six months ago, a group of American soldiers rushed to reach a spot in the scrubland of Niger after intelligence officials intercepted a signal from the cellphone of a terrorist known as Doundoun Cheffou.
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Gazing out over El Salto's scorched scrubland as he patrols the dirt roads of his rundown neighborhood, Raúl Muñoz, a 59-year-old former guerrilla, says he leads the largest of 27 autodefensa cells scattered across the town.
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Meanwhile, at a street market downtown where farmers sold honey and chile wreaths, shoppers said they had no sense of a crisis on the border, which is 40 miles south and buffered by scrubland of juniper and yucca.
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More than 2,000 personnel have been assigned to the blaze, the most destructive of several wildfires burning since last week up and down the state, from the Klamath National Forest near Oregon to desert scrubland near the Mexico border.
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In the early 1900s, the Osage were among the wealthiest people in the United States, after a large oil reservoir was discovered beneath the barren Oklahoma scrubland they had been driven to by white settlers and the federal government.
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LOKICHAR, Kenya (Reuters) - In the decades before oil was discovered in the northern Kenyan region of Turkana South, 100,000 poor villagers living in arid scrubland relied on a lone church-run health center in Lokichar town for medical help.
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Some wealthy Palestinians share the same passion, operating ranches surrounded by little more than Bedouin shanty towns and scrubland reminiscent of the American West, and trainers race through the landscape with the abandon of extras in a cowboy movie.
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CASTILLETES, Colombia (Reuters) - In the sun-baked scrubland of northern Colombia's remote La Guajira province, a bitter quarrel rages between two neighboring Wayuu indigenous families, one of them seeking refuge from a humanitarian crisis across the border in Venezuela.
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More than 2,000 personnel have been assigned to the blaze, the biggest and most destructive of nine large wildfires burning up and down the state, from the Klamath National Forest near Oregon to desert scrubland close to the Mexico border.
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A third consecutive year of drought in one of the world's poorest countries has left more than 1.1 million people unable to feed themselves in the semi-arid south of Madagascar, where cacti, sisal plantations and scrubland dominate the landscape.
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Malan said the lion, believed to be two years old, would be darted again before being transported back to his natural habitat at the Karoo National Park, a hilly region of grassy scrubland about halfway between Cape Town and Johannesburg.
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Early in " Inland ," Téa Obreht's new novel, we find the frontierswoman Nora Lark in the drought-stricken Arizona Territory, managing the fears of her seven-year-old son, Toby, who has discovered strange disturbances in the scrubland surrounding their homestead.
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They are thrown together in the scrubland near the border, and their relationship is wary and unhurried, with a faint echo of John Wayne and Natalie Wood, as a Confederate veteran and his long-lost niece, in "The Searchers" (1956).
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Police equipped with water cannon stood guard over the demolition, while hundreds of migrants - some of whom have lived in the scrubland on the northern French coast for months or years - waited for buses to take them for resettlement across France.
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Ghadeer farm, set among scrubland near a U.S. air base, is scrambling to meet a surge in demand for milk caused by a Saudi-led economic boycott of Qatar that has raised fears of food shortages in a country dependent on imports.
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In the beige scrubland of the Nevada desert, with jagged mountains in the distance jutting up like the teeth of car keys and red-dirt berms all around, I could've squinted and imagined myself on a forward operating base somewhere in southern Afghanistan.
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AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Back in the heart of Texas and a race track carved out of the scrubland, Lewis Hamilton was hit by the pioneering spirit on Thursday and declared that he wanted to be the man to lead Mercedes into uncharted territory.
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This is the start of a protracted battle for the province of Idlib, a swathe of scrubland in north-western Syria which contains dozens of towns and villages like Ariha and Haas as well as the city for which it is named.
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The scrubland of West Africa's Sahel region has been the scene of growing militant violence over the past year, some perpetrated by groups with links to Islamic State and al Qaeda who roam the vast desert stretches and cross international borders often without detection.
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Extending nearly 800 miles, greater than the distance between New York and Atlanta, it embraces mangrove swamps, scrubland, savannas, forests and spectacular coral reefs, habitats for the world's smallest bird (the bee hummingbird), an alarming leaping crocodile and the ultra-elusive ivory-billed woodpecker.
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A great void rises in Yann Martel's new novel, and for the three men who act as the loose tethers of its three interwoven stories, the means of filling that void lies deep in the northern stretches of the Iberian countryside, among the scrubland and the stones.
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NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (Reuters) - Glafiro Montemayor's scrubland near the U.S. border may not look like much but within a few years he hopes to transform it by building a giant new bridge across the Rio Grande, setting his sights on billions of dollars in U.S.-Mexico trade.
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The Calais camp, a vast shanty town on sandy scrubland where demolition workers were due to finish their destruction job by the end of Monday, came to symbolise Europe's fraught efforts to cope with a record influx of migrants fleeing strife and poverty in countries from Afghanistan to Sudan.
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Burkina Faso has been beset by a rise in attacks in 2019 as groups with links to Islamic State and al Qaeda based in neighboring Mali seek to fuel local tensions and extend their influence over the porous borders of the Sahel, the arid scrubland south of the Sahara.
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Those figures do not account for the thousands of fighters based in the caves of Afghanistan, in the scrubland of Niger and Mali, in the Sinai Desert, in lawless stretches of Libya and Yemen, and in the numerous other countries where affiliates of the group have taken hold.
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Large areas of the Sahel, the band of scrubland south of the Sahara, are no longer controlled by soldiers and police, to the dismay of local governments and their international partners, including the United States, which have struggled to contain the spread of jihadist groups across West Africa.
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On a recent sun-streaked morning, Mr. Irwin tipped back a hard hat and surveyed cinder-block walls rising from the arid West Texas scrubland here, the beginnings of what will be the first permanent installation of its kind designed by him in America, on the grounds of the Chinati Foundation in Marfa.
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Erlan Kozhakov, 63, a herder on the sandy scrubland between Kazakhstan's biggest city, Almaty, and the Chinese border, has three sons and three daughters, and all but one followed his advice not to be taken in by the romantic notions about herding cattle spread by schoolbooks that extol the glories of their country's nomadic traditions.
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The couple replanted the long barren scrubland that surrounded the property with olive groves, cypress, fruit trees and lavender; they installed running water and electricity; and they decorated the interiors in a freewheeling mix of British and Tuscan styles, sourcing rustic Italian furniture from nearby junkyards and enlisting local artisans to fabricate antique-style iron bed frames for the five bedrooms.
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They drag one of the canvases, picked because it's closest to the barn door that forms a barrier between the studio and the outside world, into what she calls the back yard—scrubland, tiny pebbles, and dust as far as the eye can see, where the dog used to run, sometimes for miles, in search of rodents to bring back and drop at her feet.
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As young trainees, my colleagues and I were taken to storied places in the desert—a remote pass where earlier generations of agents were rumored to have pushed migrants from clifftops and hidden their corpses, a stretch of road where an agent had run over a Native American lying drunk and asleep on the road, an isolated patch of scrubland where agents had force-fed smugglers fistfuls of marijuana and turned them loose to walk through the wilderness barefoot and stripped to their underwear.
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Mozambique Madagascar Zimbabwe MauritiuS Réunion south africa Indian Ocean 2000 miles Saint-Denis N2150 Indian Ocean Cirque de Salazie Hell-Bourg Cirque de Mafate Bélouve Forest La Nouvelle Plaine des Tamarins Taïbit Pass Piton des Neiges Cilaos N240 Cirque de Cilaos N250 Réunion france 217 miles Saint-Denis N211 Indian Ocean Cirque de Salazie Mozambique Hell-Bourg Cirque de Mafate Madagascar Bélouve Forest Zimbabwe La Nouvelle Plaine des Tamarins MauritiuS Taïbit Pass Réunion Piton des Neiges Cilaos N19773 Cirque de Cilaos N21977 south africa Réunion Indian Ocean france 252 miles 252 miles By The New York Times As you climb, the tree canopy thins and then disappears until you emerge on a vast plateau of scrubland scattered with Mars-red chunks of volcanic rock.
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