Mauritius, a small island nation, is Africa's only full democracy.
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Ninety percent of the GPs on the small island attended.
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The U.S. military occupies 20 percent of this small island.
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His small island home, he discovered, had a distinct history.
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It's a small island located at the easternmost point of Canada.
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The relatively small island has an outsized importance for Indonesian tourism.
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Some small island nations could disappear entirely in the coming decades.
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You live on a small island where uncertain winds are blowing.
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Among them were seven creeks, another mountain and a small island.
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"The challenge is being on a really small island," Poupon said.
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And now we find out that our new leaders have been sneakily shipping their money from our small island to another small island, halfway around the world, most likely to save a little on their taxes.
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The news of my parents' murder-suicide rocked our small island community.
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In June, voters on the small island tossed her out of office.
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And then, he crashes into the deserted side of a small island.
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It's a small island, so everyone probably heard about it right away.
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But this small island can't host all these people at once comfortably.
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The small island where the terminal would be built is, itself, undeveloped.
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Suddenly, a fly flew from the map, revealing the small island nation.
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The small island is about 800 miles off the coast of India.
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Leaders from small island nations expressed dismay over the lack of progress.
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Might these small island nations fall like dominos into Beijing's waiting embrace?
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Others spoke about climate finance, small island developing states and other issues.
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An opportunity popped up on a small island and I jumped at it.
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For the world's small-island states, climate change is literally an existential concern.
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Hall 7 offers its own testimony to the entanglements of this small island.
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"For a small island, they have a very active and engaged movement," says Freedberg.
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And I think most Republicans understand that, other than a small island of them.
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Although Castro's stage was a small island nation, historians say he commanded worldwide attention.
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Other small island countries are wrestling with contingency plans should waters rise too high.
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"Small Island" is now playing at the National Theatre in London until August 10th
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The goal of each level is to defend a small island from invading Vikings.
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Martinez was born and raised on this small island of 160,000 or so people.
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The small island nation of Dominica is working on banning Styrofoam this year, too.
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Suddenly, they found themselves transforming a small island and trying to build a festival.
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Or do we close ourselves down: a small island, trapped in its own smallness?
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Let's pretend you have just been picked to run a small island nation. Congratulations!
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Nantucket is a small island located off of the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
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Living on another small island — Manhattan — she is, like the haenyeos, swimming between worlds.
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Koto is from the small island of Fulaga, so far south it's practically Tonga.
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It was a small island country that flowered in its contact with other cultures.
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Oh, and there's currently a hotel on a small island floating across the map.
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These are small island nations where local laws make it easy to park money.
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He also secured a small island just off its coast as a naval defense: Kotlin.
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Macau, a small island near Hong Kong, is also a special administered region of China.
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The small island, with a population of 86,000, saw 4,500 refugees in July 2015 alone.
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Hurawalhi is a small island, so there's no need to call for a golf cart.
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Already, the damage estimate to the small island was at least $2000 million, Browne added.
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The mystery started after sunset at our guesthouse on a small island in the Philippines.
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Time seems to have stopped on Salt Cay, a small island that's quiet and charming.
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Two were picked up by Danish police on Saltholm, a small island in the strait.
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A few years later, the moniker was given to a small island in the bay.
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"I belong to a small island with no say on international issues," Ms. Condé said.
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It includes "Small Island," Helen Edmundson's adaptation of Andrea Levy's novel of the same name.
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Maurice, a 4-year-old rooster, lives on a small island off France's Atlantic coast.
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This led to the formation in 2100 of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS).
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Grefte took this image while in Bonaire, a small island off the coast of Venezuela.
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"What we've said to the Cubans is: small island," Mr. Tillerson said, raising his hands.
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It reminds you that this is a small island far from its motherland of France.
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The Boeing 737-800 aircraft hit the lagoon surrounding the small island about 9.30 a.m.
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The small island nation said Australian espionage on its diplomats rendered recent agreements between them flawed.
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Both his father and grandfather, born on a small island off Sakata's coast, had been fishermen.
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On Sunday, Toninelli said the small island nation should be sanctioned for not performing the rescue.
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Only a handful of states, mainly small island nations and South American countries, recognize the ROC.
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Authorities believe Russell was killed when the aircraft crashed into a small island southwest of Seattle.
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Bahrain is a small island nation with a predominantly Shiite population ruled by a Sunni minority.
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The plane crashed into a small island in the Puget Sound some time after 8 p.m.
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Much of Dominica is in need of aid after Maria destroyed much of the small island.
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Barbuda: The eye of the storm passed directly over the small island, leaving it barely habitable.
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It's a small island, 62 square miles, and its residents have a strong sense of belonging.
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The ship had been taking the passengers on an outing to a small island for snorkeling.
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Here is some context to help you understand the latest events in the small island nation.
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While the social fabric has held, some worry how much stress the small island can take.
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The majority of the signatories are European countries, small island states, or rich cities or regions.
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A young woman mentioned that she had just arrived in New York from a small island.
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Are you familiar with the Commonwealth of Dominica, a small island country in the West Indies?
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Obama's like, peace: A small island in French Polynesia for a month at a luxury eco-resort?
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The people of this small island have come together heroically to help their communities survive and recover.
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Beyond that, sea-level rises could have a devastating effect on coastal settlements and small island states.
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Réunion, a small island that is still legally part of France, has its own emoji flag too.
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The nation faces the existential question of whether a small island can absorb significant numbers of refugees.
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I recently took a trip to Mauritius, a small island country off the coast of southeast Africa.
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Modernizing small island power systems with renewables will supply cheaper, efficient, secure, cleaner power, the report said.
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The Dominica Hurricane Relief Fund launched a campaign to help the residents of the small island nation.
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Campbell expects it will take 10 years and $26 million to clear this small island of rats.
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Michael Cohen has a rough few days; the small island of Vanuatu denies some big potential news.
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I land on the closest one to me and set my ship down on a small island.
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In a separate operation in June off Salamina, a small island near Athens, they pulled two tonnes.
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Although the small island has no military of its own, it does have its own police force.
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Far fewer migrants have arrived in Malta, a small island with a total population of around 437,000.
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It's a small island that opened in 1976 as a project by the State of New York.
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Kyo: Especially when your parents are, Penang's such a small island, so everyone kind of know everyone.
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Sir Daniel Ross landed on the small island in 1788 and surveyed the land for a year.
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Parley is collaborating with the United Nations to extend its programs to 38 small island developing states.
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But Fiji, a small island developing state in the South Pacific, has not been suffering in silence.
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One of these coal mines was underneath Hashima Island, a small island off the coast of Nagasaki.
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I think it will be a very small, small island if it's only filled with zero tolerance.
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We have instructions to be back in an hour, so we disembark and begin exploring the small island.
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Castro's stage was a small island nation 90 miles from the United States, but he commanded worldwide attention.
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"And to the small island of Wallis and Futuna, where apparently the smallest pineapple is produced," he says.
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Baldwin also shared a portrait snapped on the group's small, island-hopping vessel captioned with a blue heart.
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Bahrain is a small island nation off the coast of Saudi Arabia near Qatar in the Persian Gulf.
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" The book appears 20 years after Bryson chronicled another trek around Britain in "Notes From a Small Island.
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"Small Island" goes some way to addressing it, with all the humanity and vividness that this story demands.
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Papua New Guinea, a small, island nation that shares a border with Indonesia, may soon turn off Facebook.
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But some suggest the aviator died as a castaway on another small island 350 miles south of Howland.
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NuStar Energy on Tuesday closed its 13 million-barrel Statia terminal in the small island of St. Eustatius.
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Then there are small island nations like the Maldives, Kiribati, and Palau, which could be wiped out entirely.
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The small island nation is accustomed to earthquakes rolling through, but most come and go with little impact.
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Teddy Roosevelt established the first refuge unit to protect birds on a small island in Florida in 85033.
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I think there were about 11 nations within Tasmania, which is a small island the size of Denmark.
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By boat, they searched the shoreline and a small island nearby, where the current might have taken her.
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This summer, Russia also set up a helicopter base on Gogland, a small island between Finland and Estonia.
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But there is growing concern that uncontrolled tourism is placing too large a burden on this small island.
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I found it on a small island in Cumberland Sound, Canada, in 1966, in a collapsed Inuit hut.
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It was a 20 year fight for Tuvalu and other small island states to reach the Paris Agreement.
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Nauru is a small island nation of about 211,214 people that takes 30 minutes by car to loop.
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I have to travel from a very small island off the coast of Massachusetts to get down here.
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Studies of small island bird and lizard populations describe a fast burst of evolution, followed by a slowdown.
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Summer playground of the 1%, the small island has plenty to offer non-millionaires in the off-season.
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State of the Art Let's pretend you have just been picked to run a small island nation. Congratulations!
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"Fifty years ago, the idea of taking rats, even off a small island, was considered impossible," Russell said.
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The state police posted images on social media of flooded streets on Nantucket, a small island off Cape Cod.
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He is sent to live on a small island in South Carolina with his great aunt, a reclusive painter.
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Britain is a small island with a gigantic history, and history connects it with the wisdom of the ages.
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Charles & Keith is a popular and commonly seen brand in Singapore, with some 24 outlets across the small island.
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The cathedral sits on Île de la Cité, a small island in the Seine in the center of Paris.
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As a result, the inhabitants of a rather small island grow up knowing surprisingly little about their own neighbours.
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When he visited, Zaidi says the tribe were using a small island in the Nile as a safe haven.
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But as the protagonists of "Small Island" find out, many British people did not quite see it that way.
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He was presumably killed about an hour later when the aircraft crashed into a small island southwest of Seattle.
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The relatively small island of Bali, famous for its beaches and temples, has an outsized importance for Indonesian tourism.
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OIL traders are paying unusual attention to Kharg, a small island 25km (16 miles) off the coast of Iran.
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Separately, Italy's coast guard rescued 33 migrants from a small island off the eastern coast of Sicily on Sunday.
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It's a first-person experience in which you walk around a small island and look at the things there.
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"We think that does not make sense on such a small island with a population in decline," Cruz said.
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Ibrahim will chair the alliance of small island states at talks among almost 200 nations in Marrakesh from Nov.
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Known as Monkey Island, this small island off the coast of Puerto Rico is home to about 1,000 monkeys.
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The bank's balance sheet is reflective of a small island economy, with high concentrations by sector and single obligor.
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Orange buoys dangled from the ceiling, and a pool table floated like a small island in the back room.
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Notably, in 2006, there was a 400-pound wild boar that plagued a small island town, killing 20 goats.
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A couple of young men with military haircuts and snorkels had a small island inside its perimeter to themselves.
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As a small island nation, Ireland also believes strongly in multinational institutions like the European Union and United Nations.
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This undermined the report, whose findings are seen as crucial for small island states most vulnerable to climate change.
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The same nation praising him is also keeping him in indefinite detention on a small island in the Pacific.
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The small island of Barbuda had 90 percent of its structures damaged or destroyed, according to the Washington Post.
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TU: There are many, like the time I was camping on a small island with a group of friends.
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What could possibly make a six-year shark attack epidemic on a small island in the Indian Ocean worse?
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Branson owns a small island in the BVI archipelago which, as was well publicized, was devastated by Hurricane Irma.
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Toward the end of your trip, you'll have to visit tons of individual small island countries in the Pacific.
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The castle sits atop a tall hill overlooking a lake, which has a small island with a church on it.
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The small island community struggles to adapt to the influx of not only refugees, but journalists, activists, and aid workers.
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The small island is a self-ruled democracy that Beijing insists be treated as part of its "one China" initiative.
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Bermuda, a small island in the North Atlantic Ocean, is moving forward with its own laws in the crypto industry.
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Guests can rent his daughter Sofia's cottage, with private pool and butler, or a small island, Coral Caye, just offshore.
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Africa Cape Verde, a small island 350 miles off the western coast of Africa, is reporting nine cases of microcephaly.
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In other words, the iceberg was grounded—and it had lodged itself right beside the small island village of Innaarsuit.
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There is currently an epidemic happening on a small island in the Bahamas and we need to talk about it.
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Nauru and other small island neighbors have agreed to a tuna sustainability agreement to improve regulation of the valuable fishstock.
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Her mother is white, and her father is a Chinese native of Mauritius, a small island in the Indian Ocean.
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The move was extremely effective in ways that go way beyond a small island nation 90 miles from our border.
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By contrast, small island states say that a thaw of ice worldwide will raise sea levels and swamp their nations.
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Despite being a small island that is not densely forested, Sicily employs around 23,000 full-time and auxiliary forest rangers.
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Ireland, despite being a small island nation of fewer than five million people, has experience in introducing groundbreaking health legislation.
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Jeremy Lee, head chef at at Soho restaurant, Quo Vadis is another London food titan enthralled by the small island.
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News coverage of Biden's travel to the small island said he was visiting "family friends" but did not name them.
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Small island developing states (SIDS) account for less than 21.5% of the world's GDP, territory, population and greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Now Obi Abili plays the title ruler, an emperor of a small island undone by past guilt and present rebellion.
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Small Island States together committed to achieve carbon neutrality and to move to 100 per cent renewable energy by 2030.
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We took a 45-minute boat ride out to Isla del Caño, a small island due west of Drake Bay.
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But Ohioans, and all Americans, should, as the small island could have a big impact on their state and country.
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Its authors call for prioritizing improvements in early warning systems in the least developed countries and small island developing states.
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For their new home, the Targaryens claimed a small island off the eastern coast of Westeros, which they named Dragonstone.
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""I didn't hate Milton Keynes immediately," joked the celebrated British writer Bill Bryson in his book "Notes from a Small Island.
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Seo was born on a small island off the southwestern coast of the Korean Peninsula, when Japan was its colonial overlord.
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It would also pose an "existential threat" to small island nations in the Pacific which would be left pretty much uninhabitable.
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When outsiders think of Puerto Rico, a couple of things probably come to mind: It's a small island in the Caribbean.
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The most famous example, Andrews cites, was in 1973 when the Eldfell volcano exploded on Heimaey, a small island in Iceland.
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A high-security laboratory on a small island in northern Germany is producing some of the deadliest viruses in the world.
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"Because of the storm, people are aware that there is this small island that has a lot to offer," Rosselló said.
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I think the thing about Manhattan for me is that it's a small island, so there's an incredible density to it.
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And in a small island nation in the Atlantic, one man's trash is another man's gym: That's today's Great Big Story!
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Vousdoukas said that small island states are also likely to suffer, especially those in the Caribbean because of their flat terrain.
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It was a small island in a sea of green, which was the public land where he had a grazing permit.
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The Lighthouse seems to mostly be about some men going mad on a small island where they tend to a lighthouse.
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In part of Culebra, a small island off the main island of Puerto Rico, they arrived planning to interview 35 households.
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France cites its small island territories in the Indian and Pacific oceans in its claims as an Asia-Pacific regional power.
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About 800 feet from the main beach of the town of Kefalos is a small island topped with a petite church.
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For some societies, such as small island nations in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, environmental havoc is not a distant threat.
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An airstrip, jutting out of two ends of the small island, hosts Chinese fighter aircraft and is home to a military garrison.
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Starbucks continues its march against hipster coffee outlets with another fancy Reserve store in Singapore — its seventh in the small island state.
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The small island nation located in the Gulf of Guinea is a former colony of Portugal and has a semi-presidential system.
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Then, in 245, a friend told Tzeni, who lives on a small island in Greece, about a clinic in Athens called Genesis.
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But where the action of Shakespeare's play takes place on a single small island, Levy's novel unfolds across two: Jamaica and Britain.
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US Lt. Faustin Wirkus went so far as to set himself up as the ruler of a small island off the mainland.
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How did not one but three experienced men, who know the sea well and lighthouse work better, disappear from a small island?
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It's the same elemental forces at work that forged Fort Simpson's small island to the south, but across a much wider canvas.
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He was the young, bearded revolutionary from a small island who took on the enormous Goliath of US capitalism and American hegemony.
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The small island in the Western Pacific is the closest US territory to North Korea and hosts two important US military installations.
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Those rising seas would displace 680 million people in low-lying coastal zones, along with 65 million citizens of small island states.
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Appleby eventually settled on relocating two Apple subsidiaries to the law firm's office in Jersey, a small island in the English Channel.
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The small island nation of about 282,3003 people sits in the South Pacific, close to Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.
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As Schäfer put it, it's "a small island against big, big, big states," and some of the best teams in the world.
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Others, led by small island countries like the Marshall Islands, want the meeting to go much further and consider tougher emissions targets.
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Francis makes an eight-hour stop in Mauritius, a small island in the Indian Ocean that is rich compared Madagascar and Mozambique.
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Scientists believe this is key to protecting small island nations from sea level rise, shoring up food production and preventing extreme weather.
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Much of the small island is lush, uninhabited tropical rainforest, and helicopter tours to see the stunning views are a popular attraction.
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The project would have constructed a bridge between the city of Ketchikan, Alaska, and a nearby small island with an airport. Rep.
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The murders rocked the small island and summoned a wave of law enforcement authorities from the United States to conduct the investigation.
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In it, "300 large-caliber self-propelled guns" opened fire at a white target painted on a small island 3 km away.
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The White House said Trump would hold a one-on-one meeting with Kim on Tuesday on the small island of Sentosa.
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Recently, a Newsweek headline asked whether the scientists of this small island nation are in fact deciding the fate of all of humanity.
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Or I think about my mother, hanging clothes on the line on her tiptoes when we lived on the small island of Dominica.
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They predict 67% of the least developed countries and 68% of small island developing states will see the highest monthly mean temperature records.
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Of all the places where climate change affects, it's the small island nations of the Pacific Ocean that are being hit the hardest.
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For Caribbean and small island states, average droughts would stretch on for 21 months; in Northern Africa, they could last for five years.
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Although there are 60,000 snares penguins, they are considered vulnerable, largely due to their breeding colonies being restricted to one small island group.
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In 1963, for example, then-President Lyndon Johnson warned Turkey in a letter against invading Cyprus, the small island nation in the Mediterranean.
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It was out of ignorance, out of indifference, out of the feelings that the history of this very small island was not important.
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The flight lasted about 75 minutes, and ended Friday night when Russell crashed into the small island after being chased by military jets.
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However, an ancient stone anvil discovered during an excavation on the small island of Rousay offers a rare glimpse into the Pictish culture.
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A small island rodent has become the first known mammal to go extinct because of man-made climate change, the Australian government confirmed.
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Small-island countries -- such as the Maldives, Mauritius, Cyprus and the Seychelles -- see between 30% and 80% of national emissions from international tourism.
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And the "war games" freeze would not affect South Korea's unilateral exercises like the one it began Monday around the small island chain.
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Stylist reports that Providenciales — a small island in the northwestern region of Turks and Caicos — is giving travelers an extra incentive to visit.
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Ushant (Eusa, in Breton), a small island less than six square miles off the coast of Brittany, was heavily affected by the pollution.
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American Samoa, a small island territory located in the Pacific, allocates just six pledged delegates to the convention with their Super Tuesday caucus.
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A small island in the Philippines is adjusting to new norms: seas rising higher, classrooms jammed in rafters and pets forced to swim.
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I am from the small island nation of Antigua and Barbuda, and I had applied for naturalization nearly a year before, on Sept.
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The island, located about 550 miles northwest of Honolulu, is part of a chain of small island groups in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.
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That feeling you get sometimes in the UK when you realize that you're living on a small island with millions of other people?
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It'll launch from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan, which is on a small island off the very southern end of Japan's Kyushu region.
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Small island nations like Kiribati are already grappling with the possibility of relocating citizens to other countries if rising seas drown their homes.
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Terrorism and Islamophobia: These are not words that the international community often associates with New Zealand, a small island nation in the Pacific.
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We visited an abandoned castle hidden on a small island in New York that&aposs slowly crumbling away, and it was hauntingly beautiful
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Far above the Arctic Circle, near the small island of Ingøya, a white whale wearing a sort of harness was spotted last Thursday.
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As the event grew, organizers have had to solve how a small island can host a large sporting event and accommodate the crowds.
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On a small island in the Pacific called Pingelap, a high percentage of the population sees the world in only black and white.
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When an underwater volcano erupted in 2015 and formed a small island in the South Pacific, NASA caught the whole spectacle on tape.
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For the rest of the world, peace meant that the wonders of the small island in the crosscurrents of history were open and inviting.
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Maria crept toward the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico on Tuesday after ripping through the small island nation of Dominica, causing widespread devastation.
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The family returns to the island with broken dreams only to appreciate their relationship to nature and love their small island existence once again.
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We might be a small island, a few of them actually, but how Britain votes always has implications for the rest of the world.
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Her town of Kikai is a small island of about 7,000 people halfway between Okinawa and Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan's four main islands.
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That sprawl of sky over a small island speck on the black ocean suggests, like few other experiences, the nanosecond that is human life.
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International humanitarian help is needed in what is a gargantuan job, Sanders said, adding that the small island community can't rebuild without such assistance.
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It's possible, for example, that as top predators on a small island, they didn't have to face the challenges that other inbred animals do.
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So for his company's 10-year anniversary and his 30th birthday party, he hosted Island Life, a party on a small island in Panama.
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Visitors must climb down terrifyingly steep ladders to get to Brazil's beautiful beach Baia do Sancho on the small island of Fernando de Noronha.
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"We have many clashes of civilizations on a small island," said Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri, a University of Colombo historian of Sri Lankan national identity.
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The plane was set to travel to the small city of Pangkal Pinang, the provincial capital of a small island in the Java Sea.
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The work consists of a small island of sand and pebbles inhabited by two Amazonian parrots in a cage and two box-like installations.
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For a moment, the small island nation seemed like a beacon for other countries striving toward self-determination under the yoke of repressive regimes.
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Residents of a small island in Maine took the coronavirus quarantine matters into their own hands, and potentially broke the law in the process.
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On the first floor of a city museum in the Urban Redevelopment Authority building, a wall is engraved with letters that spell SMALL ISLAND.
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It's a small island, so you meet and run into many of the same people often — I run into my friends everywhere I go.
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Simply bike around and get lost, as I did, knowing that on such a small island, you're never truly at risk of going astray.
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Fiji will preside at the Bonn talks, the first small island nation to do so in more than two decades of U.N. climate negotiations.
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Anyone who followed Bill Bryson on his trek around Britain in "Notes From a Small Island," published here exactly 20 years ago, will instantly understand.
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"It is a very difficult operation, because the gang has made its hideout on a small island, surrounded by water and dense jungle," Ghazanfar added.
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It's the first small island nation to preside over the talks, and an appropriate choice given how crucial climate change action is to its survival.
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Small island nations, which are most susceptible to the effects of climate change, have been discussing the need to control HFC emissions for a decade.
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Residents of the small island—which has a population of about 2,000—have been warned not to go outside, although the storm has now passed.
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A small island at the center of the Fortnite map is now dubbed the Isle of the Storm, and it's covered with giant purple crystals.
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The small island-state of Singapore has reported 40 cases of coronavirus, putting it among the hardest hit countries, along with Japan, outside of China.
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The result is a small island that looks like a bit of exposed brain floating in the water, thanks to its weird, twisting lava flows.
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If the timing of this much-anticipated event on this small island country's cultural calendar suggests that it's actually heading into triennial territory, never mind.
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But a wrench is thrown in their connection when Reynolds comes to the small island as a surprise and convinces her to head back home.
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An ancient stone anvil discovered during an excavation on the small island of Rousay offers a rare glimpse into the culture of the Pictish people.
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Hurricane Irma Hurricane Irma -- one of the strongest storms in the history of the Atlantic -- blasted through the small island of Barbuda early this morning.
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Small island states, many of which are already suffering the effects of rising sea levels and powerful storms, want the warming limited to 1.5 degrees.
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While small island nations that import a lot of goods produce the most waste, the U.S. falls in the top five producers among developed countries.
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Small Island to the big field Pupu'a, his parents and eight siblings emigrated from the Polynesian islands of Tonga when he was five years old.
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Boracay, a small island in the Philippines, was named the 2012 Best Island in the World by Travel + Leisure because the beaches were so pristine.
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The authors said that people living in small island states were often viewed as the most vulnerable to climate change because of rising sea levels.
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Baia do Sancho, a beach on the small island of Fernando de Noronha off of Brazil, is consistently ranked one of the world's best beaches.
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Either way, it's jarring to go from an open office — where every sniffle is a community broadcast — to the small island of your own abode.
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The bodies of the young Britons were discovered in September 2014 on a beach on Koh Tao, a small island in the Gulf of Thailand.
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But the heads of small island nations, fearful of rising sea levels, had also asked scientists to examine the effects of 2.7 degrees of warming.
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We are actively engaged with a wide range of regional and global organisations such as the African Union, CARICOM, and SIDS (Small Island Developing States).
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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said climate change had become "an existential threat for all countries", especially vulnerable countries like hers and small-island states.
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Woody Island, known as Yongxing in China, has a military airstrip that juts out both ends of the small island and is used by fighter aircraft.
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Like many other small island developing states, the Seychelles owe a considerable amount of money to international creditors, which have lent it money for development assistance.
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Ronald Jackson of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency said small island states need to share knowledge if they are to build back better after disasters.
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The company which began as a family-run business from the small island state of Tasmania listed at A$1.00 and ended 2015 at A$16.50.
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America is free to put missiles on Guam, although sceptics argue that ground-based missiles crammed onto a small island would be vulnerable in a war.
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In that moment, she looked much less like a multi-platinum, award-winning pop star, and more like a girl from a small island in Barbados.
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The small island hosts about half of the roughly 50,000 American military personnel stationed in Japan, and many residents want the number reduced, not simply redistributed.
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The small island of Ogijima in the Seto Inland Sea has been held out as an example of being particularly welcoming to younger people relocating there.
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George E. Pataki flew to the territory to speak out against the Navy's bombings in Vieques, a small island-town off the coast of Puerto Rico.
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Climate change is actually the very reason I live here in the US. I was born on a small island in the Caribbean called St. Thomas.
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And the attention is reverberating at the statue's home, a small island in New York Harbor, where visitors in January and February have surged this year.
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Last June, the History Flight NGO made a major discovery: a mass grave on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands.
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Woody Island, known as Yongxing in China, has a military airstrip that juts out from both ends of the small island and is used by fighter aircraft.
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Turkey&aposs state-run news agency says that Turkish coast guard helicopters have rescued 34 migrants who were stranded on a small island in the Aegean Sea.
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Trust in politicians reached record-low levels in Iceland after the financial crash of 2008, when many in the small island nation lost their homes and jobs.
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According to a Malaysian Air Force official, military radar tracked the plane as it passed over the small island of Pulau Perak in the Strait of Malacca.
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If global temperatures exceed this level, leaders have warned, small island states such as the Maldives and Kiribati would face an existential threat from sea level rise.
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The 23rd Conference of the Parties (COP) will be presided over by Fiji, one of the small island nations particularly vulnerable to the effects of global warming.
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Scientists say some small island states, including the Marshall Islands, for example, are in jeopardy of drowning beneath rising seas at even 2 degrees Celsius of warming.
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Officials say the "suicidal" airline employee stole an empty Horizon Air turboprop plane and took off from Sea-Tac Friday night before crashing into a small island.
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After wading a few feet into the wet mud of the swamp, Jess spied a tiny puppy tied to a tree on small island of dry land.
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Actually the piece did not even mention Ireland, it references Inishturk - a small island off the coast of Ireland which has no say on Irish immigration policy.
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In the middle of the stream, there&aposs a small island, its sides weathered from years of tiny human feet leaping from one side to the other.
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It proceeds across a village then extends back onto the water, where it merges at an angle and encompasses a small island in a perfect, golden square.
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In a June 7 interview with Conde Nast Traveller, the pop star gushed over her home country, a small island nation in the middle of the Caribbean.
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During this time, guards will surely be concerned with the level of water, which has reached a spectacular height near the Eiffel Tower, submerging a small island.
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Donald Trump's childhood home looks like every other house in Jamaica Estate, Queens—a small island of suburbia in one of the most diverse counties in America.
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The small island state of Tasmania on Thursday imposed its own state of emergency, ordering people who arrive from mainland Australia to self-isolate for 14 days.
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Tourists and workers alike fled to the top of a hill on the small island and waited through the night in case the earthquake generated a tsunami.
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At that point, the net was reported west of Molokini, a crescent-shaped small island, popular for diving, located between Maui and the uninhabitable island of Kahoolawe.
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Others, including small-island developing states and some Latin American and African countries, have pledged to work on cutting their emissions to net-zero by mid-century.
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Small island developing states, from the Pacific to the Caribbean, say they are suffering ever more from rising sea levels and storm surges whipped up by cyclones.
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This is the soundtrack of where we live during fishing season: a small island in Alaska where my husband fishes for salmon four months of the year.
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New Zealand officials say they'll begin Friday to recover eight victims' bodies believed to remain on a small island since a volcanic explosion there earlier this week.
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Work on other activities like helping small island countries adapt to rising sea levels and migrate away from high-risk areas also stalled after the change in administrations.
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At 2 degrees of warming, for example, some small island countries, like the Marshall Islands, which I visited in 2015, are expected to be submerged beneath rising seas.
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VALLETTA (Reuters) - Malta on Thursday accused Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini of willful inaccuracy in accusing the small island state of breaking promises to take in Mediterranean migrants.
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At midday the next day, the boat took a detour to Lampedusa, a small island on the way to Sicily, for an emergency evacuation of an unconscious woman.
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The Penikese Island School, for example, is located on a small island off the coast of Massachusetts and serves youths who have run into trouble with the law.
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The wrecks lie in the small island archipelago of Fournoi, in the Eastern Aegean, and span a huge period from ancient Greece right through to the 20th century.
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The 82-year-old was the only known resident of a small island off the coast of Japan until he left his life in seclusion for health reasons.
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I remember going on vacation to some small island someplace once with my kids, and it didn't take long to realize we didn't even quite enjoy that environment.
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Take Yasiel Puig, for example: After helping Puig escape Cuba, traffickers affiliated with a notorious Mexican drug cartel held him for ransom on a small island for weeks.
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Some of those in the video had been involved in scuffles on Friday at the migrant identification center on the small island of Lampedusa, the news reports said.
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The calamity on Puerto Rico, which included the near-total destruction of the island's power grid, exposed the vulnerabilities of the small island developing states of the Atlantic.
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The richest ZIP code in the United States isn't in New York or California — instead, it's on a small island in Florida, according to a new Bloomberg analysis.
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Cutting funding to help vulnerable countries deal with climate change also will affect small island states that may need to resettle whole communities impacted by rising sea levels.
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Off the Mediterranean coast, another small island has quietly confronted a steady flow of migration from north Africa and the Middle East, but over a much longer period.
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Though Maria took only about 22017 hours to traverse the small island, the combination of high winds and up to 37 inches of rain left Puerto Rico devastated.
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Contracting homes to rent in a new area, like a small island in the Caribbean, is faster and less expensive than building a hotel, Mr. Cedillo-Espin said.
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From Hawaii and Moab, Utah, to the Outer Banks, N.C., and a small island in Maine, local authorities are urging travelers to reconsider trips that are not essential.
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While Fox News's actual reporting, according to Mike Hoyt, a former editor of Columbia Journalism Review, was "a small island in a vast sea of very conservative commentary."
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A Boeing 737 aircraft carrying 47 people crash-landed into the sea off a small island in Micronesia after the pilot missed the runway while trying to land.
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Delegates from small island states, many of which could become uninhabitable as sea levels rise, say the U.S. resistance to the global effort now had soured the talks.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - New Zealand police said on Tuesday the eight people still unaccounted for after a volcanic eruption on a small island popular with tourists are likely dead.
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The installations are part of a larger push, launched by Dominica's prime minister after Maria, to turn his country into the first "climate-resilient" small island developing nation.
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The building stood, as it had for over two centuries, on Isla de Convalecencia, a small island within the Pasig River on the eastern edge of the city.
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He survived and jumped into the freezing Assomption River, washing up a few minutes later on a small island, where police found him bleeding to death in the snow.
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He lives on a small island off the West Coast of Canada, a fact I didn't realize until I accidentally called him at an ungodly hour of the morning.
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Here on this small island, the ethnic microcosm of Malaysia is even more condensed and cooks have never been averse to mixing and matching culinary styles, flavors, and textures.
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After 1949, the Nationalists retained control of several small island groups along the coast of eastern China, from where they launched guerrilla raids into China and harassed Chinese shipping.
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The small island economy's performance on the measures of governance, human development and ease of doing business are also consistent with that of the 'AAA' and 'AA' rated countries.
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For Saint Patrick's Pilgrimage, worshippers converge on a small island for a three-day regime of minimal food and sleep, chilly barefoot walks, kneeling on stones and rigorous prayer.
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Citing an IRGC statement, Fars descibed the ship as a foreign tanker that was seized in an area south of Larak, a small island in the Strait of Hormuz.
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Sentosa is a small island South of Singapore that has a Universal Studios theme park, a manmade beach, lots of beach clubs, bars, and other attractions like zip-lining.
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Sudanese community asked for help Health services on Australia's detention centers on Manus Island and the small island nation of Nauru are run by International Health & Medical Services (IHMS).
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With Cuba in the spotlight since the December 17, 2014, rapprochement with the United States, pressure has only increased for the small island nation to expand its Internet access.
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The region's 26 small-island economies merit eligible status based on demonstrated need and the importance of the region as a whole to U.S. economic and regional security interests.
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Washington (CNN)The devastation in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria has brought the small island off the coast of Florida -- home to 2437 million American citizens -- into the spotlight.
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Vulnerable countries, including small island states that could see their entire territories disappear as seas rise, agreed to the text to ensure the rulebook moved forward, he told CNN.
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On a small island reached by footbridge off the northwest coast of Anglesey in Wales, this lighthouse requires descending over 2710533 stone steps down a cliff for a visit.
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Climate change should be central to everything Britain's Department for International Development does, said Gill, pointing to the especially high risks facing the poorest countries and small island states.
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Fiji, like many other small island nations, is seen as particularly vulnerable to global warming and a possible rise in ocean levels as a result of melting polar ice.
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Notre-Dame is in the center of the city on a small island called Île de la Cité, which may have made it more difficult for firefighters to reach.
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Harvey) is a prim teacher who leaves the "small island" of Jamaica to start a new life in a west London boardinghouse run by the boisterous Queenie (Ms. Loftus).
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Francis now is working on disaster displacement and local and regional climate migration solutions at Columbia University's Sabin Center, with a focus on small island developing states like Dominica.
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The Federated States of Micronesia, small island nation in the western Pacific Ocean, has hired Washington lobbyists to ensure a key agreement with the United States remains in place.
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Sicily, and the small island of Lampedusa to its south in the Mediterranean, have been focal points for a continuing influx of migrants trying to reach Italy by sea.
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Christin Martin of The Martins makes the bride and groom look like they're the only two people in the world in this small island in Northern Ireland's Murlough Bay.
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There is a small island of highly educated professionals making good wages at corporations like Intel or Boeing, which reap hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit per employee.
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The building, which stands on a small island in the Seine River, was a constant amid the upheaval of the French Revolution and the terrors of the Nazi occupation.
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They think that with floating cities they can: "Enrich the poor," because small island nations, they reason, tend to be wealthier and able to restructure government when they become independent.
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Anything more than that, scientists and political leaders say, would carry too high a risk of irreversible impacts on global ice sheets, resulting in the drowning of small island states.
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Howell, the close-knit neighborhood's resident hippie, had moved to the small island of Culebra off the coast of mainland Puerto Rico in 1986 to work in sea turtle preservation.
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Residents of small island nations like the Marshall Islands, Vanuatu and Kiribati are fleeing rising tides and powerful storms to seek better economic opportunities in the U.S. mainland and elsewhere.
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Things are honestly as simple as they look: one picture has a dark outline with a small island of light, and the other has the entire frame filled with information.
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A rise in sea levels will threaten low-lying coasts from Miami to Bangladesh, cities from Shanghai to San Francisco and small island states such as Tuvalu in the Pacific.
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Federal investigators say a stolen Horizon Air turboprop plane broke into many pieces when it crashed into an area of thick brush on a small island in the Puget Sound.
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While my fellow passengers and I were ashore, exploring the stark, black and white landscape, we spotted a polar bear on a small island a couple of hundred yards away.
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It's a mystery that happened over a century ago, when the only three men on the small island—the first men to ever man this lighthouse—just up and vanished.
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In the sinking at Farmakonisi, another small island also close to the Turkish coast, six children and two women drowned when their wooden boat crashed on rocks shortly after midnight.
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Despite the United Nations Green Climate Fund, set up in 2010 to help poor countries tackle climate change, red tape means many small island nations are unable to access funding.
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The victim from Koh Raed, a small island in Thailand's Phang Nga province, first reported the sexual assaults in March, the province's deputy governor Eggarat Leesen told CNN on Thursday.
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Trinidad's Jack Warner, the former president of CONCACAF, worked diligently to assemble the small-island voting bloc that Blatter and Grondona would integrate into their political base and bribe network.
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But last Thursday at dusk, 2000 musicians gathered at an active volcanic crater on this small island in the southern Aegean Sea for an experiment in improvisational site-specific performance.
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They were taken to a small island controlled by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps and then were brought to the mainland, fed and given water, according to pictures released by Iran.
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This small island practically shuts down after the summer, except for the locals who live there year-round, but the town really livens up during the first weekend of December.
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On our first full day in Senegal, the desert was behind us and the 70-mile ride ahead would end at the former capital, the small island of Saint-Louis.
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Tucked inside the top binder's front pocket was a grainy photo of my husband and me sitting on a misty beach on a small island near Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts.
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The fear is that climbing global temperatures will bring more extreme storms and rising sea levels which threaten the very existence of small island states and low-lying coastal regions.
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Ala Uddin travels from his small island to the town of Dhubri, making on average 250 rupees, or $3.50 a day, to provide for his mother, wife, and four children.
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But in a first for America, the ocean breeze is now generating clean, renewable power offshore — electricity that will supply a small island community off the coast of Rhode Island.
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"But thanks to a progressive alliance of small island states, European, African and Latin American countries, we obtained the best possible outcome" in the circumstances, she added in a statement.
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"One of the biggest emitters in the world has begun the process of withdrawal," said Janine Felson of Belize, which headed a bloc of low-lying and small island countries.
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SYDNEY, Dec 10 (Reuters) - New Zealand police said on Tuesday the eight people still unaccounted for after a volcanic eruption on a small island popular with tourists are likely dead.
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Maldives Environment Minister Thoriq Ibrahim - chair of the Alliance of Small Island States whose members fear they are at risk from rising sea levels - urged continued U.S. participation in Paris.
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The company will start with four charging stations on the small island of Ishigaki (it hasn't decided how many scooters just yet), with plans to scale up and expand from there.
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As leaders of Small Island Developing States see the rising tides and feel the temperature changes, we will not play a waiting game, hoping major economies will come to our rescue.
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Oxenfree tells the story of a group of teenagers heading to a small island to party, with the goal of having a parent-free evening of drinking around a beach bonfire.
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The novel The Last Thing He Wanted takes place on a small island off the coast of Costa Rica, and the movie is reportedly already filming in Puerto Rico, per THR.
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This limit was proposed by The Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), a coalition of nations in the tropics and global south including Haiti, Fiji, the Maldives, and the Solomon Islands.
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A small island county within the Persian Gulf takes the crown when it comes to workplace generosity, offering its roughly 1.4 million residents the most annual paid leave in the world.
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Looking ahead, delegations will return to Bonn in six months for COP 23, which will be led by Fiji—the first small island developing state to hold the conference presidency title.
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Mauritius Since gaining independence from the UK in 1968, Mauritius -- a small island nation in the Indian Ocean -- has developed as a tourist economy, known for its luxury spas and beaches.
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According to survivors' testimonies, dozens were on board a wooden sailboat which went down off Kalolimnos, a small island in the Aegean Sea close to Turkey's coast, one coastguard official said.
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"We do not have that connection any more," he said standing on the sandy beach of Koh He, a small island off Phuket's southern coast, where his ancestors were once buried.
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Presented the following month to the grand UN climate-change conference in Paris, they added bite to the eventual declaration: an example of how the Commonwealth can project small-island power.
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"It's a treasure trove - there is so much happening," said Arno Boersma, manager of the UNDP Centre of Excellence for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, based in Aruba.
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With help from law firms that specialize in offshore tax shelters, the company canvassed multiple jurisdictions before settling on the small island of Jersey, which typically does not tax corporate income.
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DraftKings was just approved for a Controlled Skill Games License from the Malta Gaming Authority, which is the entity that runs gaming in Malta – a small island nation south of Italy.
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Mr. Sare's son, Tomislav, 22, explained what happens next on a tour of the family's farms and the small island in the bay, which oyster lovers can rent for private parties.
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With help from law firms that specialize in offshore tax shelters, the company canvassed multiple jurisdictions before settling on the small island of Jersey, which typically does not tax corporate income.
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You should also read, in The Guardian, Emily Gillespie's fascinating look at a small island in Puget Sound where the population is 214 and each one is a dangerous sex offender.
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China has challenged U.S. influence in the Pacific in recent years by forging stronger economic ties with small island nations, and drawing countries out of their long-term alliances with Taiwan.
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Screaming in pain, with skin peeling from their faces and limbs scorched by steam and ash, the survivors were transferred from a dinghy bobbing in the water off the small island.
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The airliner was entering the final leg of a routine trip from Bologna, Italy, to Palermo, Sicily, when it suddenly plunged into the Tyrrhenian Sea near the small island of Ustica.
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The Associated Press reports the small island is considered the center of the spiritual and physical universe to the Wiyot Tribe, which was deeded the land in a packed signing ceremony.
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It's unclear how he attained the skills to do loops in the aircraft before crashing about an hour after taking off into a small island in the Puget Sound, authorities said.
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"What we've said to the Cubans is [it's] a small island, you got a sophisticated security apparatus, you probably know who's doing it, you can stop it," Tillerson said in December.
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Along the way, he paused to document the idiosyncratic street styles he encountered in Tokyo, Kyoto, Naga and Naoshima, a small island in southern Japan known for its contemporary art museums.
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A 2016 UN report found that an overwhelming majority of natural disaster deaths between 1996 and 2015 occurred in low- and middle-income countries, including small island states like the Bahamas.
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An initiative launched on Sunday by the WHO, the U.N. climate secretariat and Fiji aims to triple international financial support for action on climate-related health issues in small island developing states.
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The castle in "Game of Thrones" may have been computer-generated, but the steps weren't — and that has been enough to attract throngs of tourists to a small island in northern Spain.
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So, it stands to reason that she'd very much rather have some new wheels than, say, jewellery or a small island, or whatever else it is that rich people buy each other.
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The Phoenix had 101 on board, including 89 tourists, all but two of them from China, when it went down in rough seas last Thursday during an outing to a small island.
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Located in Île de la Cité, a small island in the middle of the city, the cathedral is one of Paris' most popular attractions, drawing an estimated 13 million visitors a year.
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Three cows whose predicament captured the interest of people around the world after they became stranded on a small island of grass in an area ripped apart by the quake were rescued.
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Investigators are piecing together how Russell stole an empty commercial airplane, took off from Sea-Tac International Airport in Seattle, and crashed into a small island in the Puget Sound in Washington.
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The review would take place over the next couple of months, Brownlee said, and Australia and New Zealand would provide intelligence to help the small island nations check any North Korean connections.
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This week, the group attempts to throw off their pursuers by taking shelter in a cove of a small island and Maddie, Travis and their children go to investigate a flickering light.
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The Taiwan Defence Ministry has requested Google blur satellite images that appear to show military installations on Itu Aba, a small island it holds in the South China Sea, Reuters has reported.
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But the failing of a small island state, reliant wholly on trade, means it is highly vulnerable to economic changes such as the threatened trade war between the United States and China.
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Some small island states in the Pacific say they may not exist if warming exceeds 1.5 degrees Celsius because sea levels are rising as land-based ice melts and the oceans warm.
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The small island off the coast of Belize is an exclusive vacation spot that can accommodate large groups of up to 10 adults and 10 children, making it ideal for large families.
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"As small island states, it is easy for us to be lost in the wider discourse," Rigobert told the Thomson Reuters Foundation on the sidelines of a United Nations-backed climate summit.
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With ratification on the horizon, the representative for small island states that face the most direct threat from climate change, said he would redouble efforts to bring the number over the line.
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The small island nation located in the Gulf of Guinea is a former colony of Portugal and has a semi-presidential system in which the prime minister is the head of government.
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Search parties dispatched in the weeks following their disappearance discovered signs of recent inhabitation on Nikumaroro, a small island close to Earhart's last known location, but no bodies or wreckage were found.
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Passengers said disaster had struck near the coast of Malta, a small island nation that is closer to Italy than to Libya, and that they had notified Italian officials of their coordinates.
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PORT MORESBY (Reuters) - President Xi Jinping made a push to expand China's influence in the Pacific on Friday, holding a forum with leaders of eight small island countries in Papua New Guinea.
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Groups of small island states and poorer countries, representing over 920 million people, issued a statement to Kurtyka expressing their frustration with the slow pace and lack of ambition of the talks.
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I heard stories from experts and people who came from Small Island Developing States who explained how climate change's negative impact on local economies had a toll on these people's well-being.
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A stage adaptation of "Small Island" is scheduled to open at the National Theater in London on April 17, while "The Long Song" was adapted for television by the BBC last year.
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The Alliance of Small Island States has been pushing for its inclusion in official agreements since the UN's Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in 2009, and commissioning scientific reports to support their case.
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"We have to prioritize adaptation everywhere, but especially in the most vulnerable parts of the world," she said, pointing to the Horn of Africa and the Sahel, coastal regions and small island states.
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Or that the lavish ceremony laid on by his hosts more recalled the glories of a lost empire than the crisis of national identity that threatens to rip the small island kingdom apart.
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The sudden geopolitical interest in the Pacific has brought with it access to cheap financing, grants and gifts that were unimaginable to many of the small island economies only a few years ago.
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Therefore, if the U.S. were to weaken the deal, the warming commitment would likely increase even more, likely dooming small island states to disappearing beneath rising seas and causing severe climate impacts worldwide.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Next year's international conference on climate change will likely be held in Germany with the small island nation of Fiji as the official host, a delegation source told Reuters on Wednesday.
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Both Shakespeare's play and "Small Island"—adapted from a novel by Andrea Levy that was published in 2004—unpick the complex, vicious tangle of power relations between coloniser and colonised, insider and outsider.
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"Small Island" sharply demonstrates that the scandal was not a one-off aberration: it was just another example of the discrimination that British people from the Caribbean faced from the moment they arrived.
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Small island developing states are already suffering the impacts of climate change, including rising seas and worsening extreme weather, and have pushed hard for more ambitious international efforts to reduce planet-warming emissions.
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Scientists say this target has a better chance of avoiding devastating climate impacts, and leaders of small island nations fear any more warming will doom their countries to flooding beneath rising sea levels.
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" On June 18, the day the walkway opened to the public, Beretta posted on its Facebook page: "A small island, belonging to the Beretta family, plays a leading role in an art installation.
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The small island of 220 million people was still cleaning up from being side-swiped by Irma when Maria slammed into it on Tuesday, engulfing nearly the entire island with hurricane-force winds.
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The Phoenix tourist boat went down in rough seas on Thursday with 101 people on board, including 89 tourists, all but two of them from China, during an outing to a small island.
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Regardless of their beliefs, war is part of everyone's narrative here, especially World War II. More than 213,000 endured wartime atrocities on the small island, including forced relocation to concentration camps and torture.
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"The COE works for Singapore because Singapore is a small island and the public transport is excellent, so if you are without a car, it's not the end of the world," she added.
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It is a particularly complex environment in which to race, made all the more complex because the mouth of the bay leading to the Atlantic Ocean is narrow and contains a small island.
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"On busy days you're talking 25,000 people on a small island, and 500 a day get to the crown," said Michael Amato, the lead park ranger for the Statue of Liberty National Monument.
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Geologists had long warned that the structure, on the north-western coast of the small island of Gozo, was eroding fast and the authorities had banned visitors from walking on top of it.
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The new agreement took seven years and required many determined advocates — major Western governments, the small island nation of Micronesia, poor African nations that fear drought and even starvation and persistent environmental groups.
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I made it onto the next flight from Vancouver and a couple hours later watched out the window as we descended toward a small island of lights in a vast sea of darkness.
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Issues of race and racism, on the other hand, are central to "Small Island," Helen Edmundson's dramatization of the 2004 Andrea Levy novel, which makes for a bustling evening at the National Theater.
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Kadura and members of the other drone teams had travelled to Mwanza in part to compete in a race from the Malaika to Juma, a small island without electricity about ten miles west.
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And the paving of the small island means that the royal tern, which was recovering from a drastic decline due to egg harvest, just lost 98 percent of its breeding habitat in Virginia.
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Carlos Fuller, chief negotiator for the Alliance of Small Island States, said the 44 low-lying nations in the bloc wanted strict rules but were being sidelined as larger countries dominated the talks.
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"We have a particular focus on the least developed countries and small island developing states and African countries — the most vulnerable countries [to climate change]," said Simon Wilson, communications coordinator for the GCF.
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A coalition of small island nations said in a statement that it was "appalled and dismayed" at the scale of what it called inaction and the failure to reach decisions on critical issues.
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Though they remain fond of the isolotto, or small island, as she and local residents call it, the current heirs no longer live in Sicily, and that led to the decision to sell.
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Cape Verde This small island country off the coast of Northwest Africa has a very high social acceptance of LGBTQ+ folks — significantly higher than the United States' — but some harassment and stigma still exist.
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Starting next week, the small island kingdom of Brunei will start punishing people found guilty of homosexuality and adultery by stoning them to death, drawing horrified outrage from human rights groups around the globe.
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The Chinese government, which cut off all diplomatic relations to the small island in 2016, claimed for decades that Taiwan is part of China's territory and will use force to conquer it if needed.
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White-throated rail Extinction keeps coming for a chicken-sized bird on a small island in the Indian Ocean, but every time it has re-evolved back into existence, according to a new study.
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In his cold-war heyday, he turned his small island into a pocket superpower, fomenting revolution across Latin America, dispatching armies to Africa and brazenly sheltering fugitives, political and criminal, from the United States.
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One of these was Farhana Yamin, an environmental lawyer who negotiated the Paris climate accords and other treaties on behalf of a coalition of small island nations that will soon disappear under rising seas.
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Australia's island state of Tasmania is often forgotten about, but the small island off the south of the mainland got all the attention this week, as the Aurora Australis danced across Taz's night skies.
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The US has an incarceration rate that's higher than the rates of authoritarian regimes like China, Cuba, and Russia, and in fact higher than any other country except the small island nation of Seychelles.
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Also, attending editors found out the morning of the show that they would be bused to Roosevelt Island, a small island in New York's East River, to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park.
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The storm did not kill huge numbers of people—around 40 before it hit the American mainland and probably fewer than 80 all told—but the economic toll in small island territories is immense.
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But, she went on, Facebook recently built a small island of transparency called the Ad Archive—a database of all political ads on the platform, along with information about who had paid for them.
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He also fantasized that creating a strong national government would ipso facto result in the emergence of a cohesive national community that could replace the small "island" communities being rapidly depopulated by advancing urbanization.
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As sea levels rise, Kiribati—along with other members of the Alliance of Small Island States, a multilateral coalition of low-lying coastal and island countries—is losing its land mass to the sea.
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They met on a small island that became known as the Isle of Faces (so named for the faces that were carved onto the island's weirwood trees during this confab) and made The Pact.
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Guterres said a recent report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change acknowledged what global warming beyond 1.5 degrees will mean for billions of people, especially those who live in small island states.
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Last June, scientists announced that the Bramble Cay melomys, a small rodent native to the Great Barrier Reef, has likely gone extinct as sea-level rise had inundated the small island it called home.
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The entry IONA has appeared in The New York Times Crossword a total of 326 times, but when clued as the small island off the coast of Scotland, solvers seem to lose their way.
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This year's July 2 eclipse will touch only one small island in the South Pacific before reaching South America, crossing the Chilean Andes and arriving in the suburbs of Buenos Aires in the evening.
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The Margaret Bridge, which was built between 1872 and 1876, stretches more than 2,000 feet and connects the two sides of the city, along with a small island in the middle of the river.
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The agency said Saturday two other children and two adults who were in the vehicle were rescued from a small island and the bank of the creek in Tonto National Forest northeast of Phoenix.
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Curacao, a small island off the coast of Venezuela, is prepared to purchase refined products on the global market to ensure it can maintain supplies for the local population as well as for shipping.
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Credit... ISAFJORDUR, Iceland — Before it became a "Game of Thrones" location, before Justin Bieber stalked the trails of Fjadrargljufur, and before hordes of tourists descended upon this small island nation, there were the fish.
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Theo Cullen-Mouze, a 17-year-old climate activist from Ireland, said his small island community off the west coast was suffering from wilder winter storms, longer summer droughts and more frequent extreme floods.
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Last year, during an unusually nasty storm, water snaked through the narrow streets of Guraidhoo, a small island in the Maldives, pooling around the floor of the three-room house and chasing away guests.
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The "Aquaman" star and ocean activist addressed the United Nations Friday on behalf of small island nations, and made a direct and sobering plea for delegates to take a stand to save the planet.
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"If we can do it so can you," Hilda Heine, Marshall Islands president, said at an event on the sidelines of the annual U.N. summit that featured a handful of heads of small island nations.
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They include efforts to improve energy efficiency, strengthen disaster risk management and boost agricultural resilience in Latin America, Africa and Asia-Pacific, as well as to help small island developing states adapt to climate change.
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The boat, the Phoenix, went down off Phuket in high seas on Thursday with 101 people on board, including 89 tourists, all but two of them from China, during an outing to a small island.
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"We are dying here, and I cannot fathom the thought that the greatest nation in the world cannot figure out logistics for a small island of 100 miles by 35 miles long," Yulín Cruz said.
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FOR a small island-nation, bobbing about on the opposite side of the globe, Taiwan has been paying close attention to the recent referendums that have taken place, amid much controversy, in Catalonia and Kurdistan.
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"The more opportunities we have to make the case for staying with the agreement, the better," Thoriq Ibrahim, Environment Minister of the Maldives who chairs the Alliance of Small Island States in Bonn, told Reuters.
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"The Maltese government took the lead on a solution before the situation escalated to a humanitarian crisis," he added, emphasizing, however, that the small island nation was not legally bound to take in the vessel.
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After the fight Waubin sat down in the ocean north-east of Kiriri, turned to stone (known now as the small island of Hammond Rock) and today protects the cluster sending strong currents around Muralag.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Three Greek naval airmen were missing and feared dead after a Greek navy helicopter crashed early on Thursday off the small island of Kinaros in the eastern Aegean Sea, Greece's Defence Ministry said.
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Small island nations such as Antigua, Barbados, Dominica and St. Lucia are tending to send delegations to such climate meetings for cities, finding them more useful for concrete ideas than nation-based meetings, Rigobert said.
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Unmentioned was the possibility that the experiment would have come to an ideologically inconvenient conclusion: that a small island — whether created by nature or man — would be an astonishingly bad place to live without rules.
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" Thoriq Ibrahim, minister of energy and environment for the Maldives and chair of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) "It is no accident that islands were the first countries to ratify the Paris Agreement.
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It would begin at Troy, the site of which is in present-day Turkey, and end on Ithaki, a small island in the Ionian Sea which purports to be Ithaca, the place Odysseus called home.
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Blackstone was recently singled out in the Paradise Papers for aggressively working to shelter its profits from taxation by routing money to Luxembourg and the small island of Jersey, off the coast of Normandy, France.
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But I'm not sure it's worth the same price as a small island off Hawaii, especially when Jay-Z didn't even bother to stop laughing in the mirror at his own reflection and turn up.
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Pilgrims come to a stubby baobab on Île de Madeleine, a small island off Dakar, to insert money into the folds of its trunk or nail a message there, as a prayer of last resort.
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China is offering to bankroll a development fund for the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific if it switches diplomatic ties from Taiwan to Beijing, a parliamentary committee in the small island nation has heard.
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The pope will spend a day in Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius, a small island state known for its beaches and tax treaties that anti-poverty campaigners say drain the wealth from developing nations.
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For three years, researchers worked with the VDOT to find a new home for the roughly 25,000 birds that have nested on a small island near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay since the 1980s.
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There are also reasonable arguments that the exercise of economic modeling itself understates the harm created by things like species extinction, wrecking the viability of indigenous people's traditional lifestyles, and rendering small island nations uninhabitable.
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New Zealand and Australia have traditionally held the most influence in the South Pacific, but the New Zealand government said in the report it was now losing its sway over small island nations to China.
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The people who contributed least to the problem stand to suffer the most, like people in small island countries with very low carbon emissions who are now threatened by sea level rise and extreme weather.
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So it's not surprising that securing funding for a loss and damage mechanism was a top priority for the countries facing some of the highest climate risks: small island states, least-developed countries, African nations.
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There's a small island of protesters at the corner of 12th and L streets, Northwest, in Washington, DC, trapped in front of a red brick building by a ring of policemen in black riot gear.
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Simon Stiell, Grenada's minister for climate resilience, told media in a telephone briefing that small island developing states were experiencing everything from flooding, sea surges and droughts to coastal erosion and loss of coral reefs.
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I think that stuff is really interesting, because some of my ancestors come from this really small island off the coast of England called the Isle of Man, and they have their own nationality, called Manx.
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Since Trump's election victory on Tuesday, governments ranging from China to small island states have reaffirmed support for the 2015 Paris agreement during climate talks involving 200 nations set to run until Friday in Marrakesh, Morocco.
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THE skies above Seattle-Tacoma International Airport were closed on August 10th after an airline employee stole an empty 76-seat plane and performed death-defying aerial acrobatics before crashing the turboprop onto a small island.
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It is also capable of running for years or even decades without refuelling, and scientists say that because it produces neither dust nor smoke, even on a small island a resident would hardly notice its existence.
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According to the Swedish nature website Natursidan, the group believes that the boars were trapped on a small island, and when they ran out of food, they attempted an escape to the mainland but were unsuccessful.
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According to a 2016 paper by the University of Queensland, a 1978 population estimate counted "several hundred individuals" living on the small island in the Torres Strait near Papua New Guinea, off of northern Queensland, Australia.
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Those who wish Britain to "Remain" say the latter is a delusional, nostalgia-induced way to look at a small island nation that has only benefited economically and strategically from being part of a larger entity.
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She patiently worked to build trust among governments with radically different interests, ranging from the United States and China to small island states worried by rising seas or OPEC nations fearing a loss of export revenues.
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William, 35, who still rides a high-powered Ducati (which he recently used to get him to a soccer match with pals!), went to watch the famous festival on the small island between Britain and Ireland.
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And the speed with which this could happen could make it hard to adapt, the authors of the study write, putting small island nations, coastal ecosystems, and coastal sites of cultural and historical importance at risk.
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On July 19th, 2014, Irish MMA became the toast of the international community when six fighters—Holohan, Pendred, Seery, Parke, Nelson, and McGregor—proved that the small island had the tools to take on the world.
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The effects of rising sea levels are "likely to be of a magnitude that will disrupt virtually all economic and social sectors in small island nations," according to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
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The IPCC report suggests that by the end of the century, higher seas are likely to displace or affect 680 million people in low-lying coastal zones and about 65 million citizens of small island states.
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LONDON — From Brussels to Berlin to Washington, leaders of the Western democratic world awoke Friday morning to a blunt, once-unthinkable rebuke delivered by the flinty citizens of a small island nation in the North Atlantic.
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"Expedition: Robinson," a Swedish reality-television program, premièred in the summer of 1997, with a tantalizing premise: sixteen strangers are deposited on a small island off the coast of Malaysia and forced to fend for themselves.
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It is in this first literary record that the famed poet tells of how Circe, the goddess of magic, cautions Odysseus and his crew about the Sirens who inhabit a small island near Scylla and Charybdis.
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These are "free" divers — they use no tanks or scuba gear — who for centuries have scraped together a living by harvesting seafood from the waters off a small island at the tip of the Korean Peninsula.
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On Monday, the State Department announced that the US could sell $2.2 billion in weapons, including 108 Abrams tanks and around 250 Stinger surface-to-air missiles, to the small island nation and staunch US ally.
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After being pressured by US authorities on shifting assets like patents and trademarks to low-tax Irish "ghost companies," Apple parked profits in Jersey, a small island in the English Channel that doesn't charge corporate tax.
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A turtle shrine was built on a small island in the lake in the 1880s, and the "great-grandfather" that died there in 2016 was widely thought to be the earthly embodiment of the ancient legend.
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The country, along with other small island nations, is expected to bear the brunt of global warming, including the loss of fresh water, land erosion, dying coral reefs and the increased frequency of extreme weather events.
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Horror Genres: Zombies, mind control Erica (Gayle Hunnicutt) travels to a small island in search of her fiancé, Richard (Christopher Connelly), who she suspects is in the nefarious hands of his scientist partner, Lewis (Randolph Mantooth).
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Preserving history, preserving the future In the frigid Arctic waters between Norway and the North Pole, there's a small island that houses the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a collection of the world's most precious plant seeds.
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Fiji is president of this year's U.N. climate talks, where small island states are pushing for urgent action to curb planet-warming emissions, which are expected to bring worse storms, floods, droughts and rising sea levels.
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He says small island nations are suffering the most from this disaster, but they are just the beginning ... and warns we are at the "critical tipping point" that could lead to the death of our planet.
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The Aloha State has a long tradition of adopting (or attempting to adopt) "cutting edge" legislation, regardless of how good a fit it might be for a small island state in the middle of the Pacific.
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On the small island of Vieques, famous to foreigners for its pristine beaches and bioluminescent bay, the local government can't afford to repair its ragged roads and will likely cut about 100 employees in upcoming weeks.
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He was among several thousand troops captured and imprisoned on the small island of Corregidor, from which he and another American escaped by swimming overnight more than two miles to Bataan, only to be recaptured days later.
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But to do this requires funding, he added, noting that only a tiny fraction of climate finance is allocated for measures to protect health, and small island developing states "will see only a small part of that".
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After producing a large explosive eruption on December 16, the volcano has followed up by adding more explosions every day or so, many of which reached 773 to 10 kilometers (15,000-35,000 feet) over the small island.
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Nauru&aposs president, Baron Waqa, who chairs the Pacific Small Island Developing States, told the council that security risks from climate change have only grown since his predecessor "sounded the alarm" to the council seven years ago.
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The Trump administration has come under fire for withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and more recently the Paris Climate accord - both key to the region and to the small island nation of New Zealand.
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Mauritius—the small island that the flightless bird called home until we killed all of them—has since banned the sale of dodo remains, so it's unlikely an a mostly-complete skeleton will appear for auction again.
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Federal officials announced late Sunday that they recovered the flight data recorder and human remains from the stolen commercial airplane that took off from Sea-Tac International Airport and crashed into a small island in Puget Sound.
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The first small island state to preside at U.N. climate negotiations since they began in the 1990s, Fiji has enlivened a conference center with canoes, dancers, huge photographs of palm-fringed islands, virtual reality shows and flowers.
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"In a small island with a lot of people, to have 6 banks dominate the market cannot be good for competition... it's important that we have growing organisations challenging the cartel of the big banks," Donaldson said.
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For the most part, Taboo's first three episodes center on a small island in the Pacific Northwest that is a hotspot in the War of 1812 — which is to say that both British and Americans covet it.
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Communist-led Cuba is renowned for its rigorous, state-subsidized ballet education and has produced an outsized share of dance stars, such as Carlos Acosta and José Manuel Carreño, for a small island of 11 million inhabitants.
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The UAE is classified as among the countries with the highest vulnerabilities to climate change in the world, along with numerous others along the Indian Ocean rim and small island nations in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
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The Trump administration has come under fire for withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and more recently the Paris Climate accord — both key to the region and to the small island nation of New Zealand.
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More than 6,000 U.S. and Japanese soldiers were estimated to have been killed around the small island chain that includes Tarawa during a bloody battle in the latter days of World War II that lasted four days.
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The authors suggest that by the end of the century, higher seas are likely to displace or affect 680 million people who live in low-lying coastal zones, along with 65 million citizens of small island states.
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"When someone important leaves the table -- (any) table -- there's one of two things you can do," said Ronald Jumeau, climate change ambassador from Seychelles, a small island nation that could drown beneath rising seas as warming continues.
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According to a new paper published by a team of Japanese researchers, this huge patch of mineral-rich deep sea mud lies near Minamitori Island, a small island 1,0003 kilometers (790 miles) off the coast of Japan.
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More than 1003 US Marines and 30 US sailors were killed in the 1943 Battle of Tarawa, after the US launched an amphibious assault on the small island some 2,300 miles, or 3,700 kilometers, southwest of Honolulu.
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The report found that by the end of the century, higher seas and flooding could displace or affect 680 million people who live in low-lying coastal zones, along with 65 million citizens of small island states.
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This might not have been as striking to me if it were not for the fact that my trip was to Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor), a small island of 1.2 million people between Indonesia and Australia.
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About half of the CVF's 48 members - most of them small island states and developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America - have indicated they will submit a stronger climate action plan next year, a spokesman said.
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The Obama administration in 2012 reversed its long-standing opposition to arming the small island nation with American warplanes, acknowledging that Taiwan's current F-16 fighter fleet would not be able to counter a potential Chinese attack.
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Small island developing states (SIDS), such as Cuba, Dominica and Tuvalu, are particularly badly affected, making up seven of the top 10 countries with the highest rates of displacement from extreme weather disasters between 2008 and 2018.
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His was a death foretold, like that of the other deceased asylum seekers and refugees banished by Australia to the small island nation of Nauru and to Manus, a remote corner of the Papua New Guinea archipelago.
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Government debt from China's interest free loans due by the end of 2018 will be written off for indebted poor African countries, as well as for developing nations in the continent's interior and small island nations, Xi said.
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The Pacific country became the first small island nation to present such a strategy to the United Nations amid increasing interest from governments worldwide toward eliminating planet-warming emissions in a bid to curb man-made climate change.
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The storm has meandered since it formed more than a week ago, scoring the rare feat of striking the same island — Vava'u — in the small island nation of Tonga twice in one week, as a Category 2 storm.
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"It is no exaggeration to say we are in a race against time," said Thoriq Ibrahim, Environment Minister for the Maldives and Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States which fears the impact of rising sea levels.
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Vinalhaven is a small island lobstering community that's part of the Fox Island chain that is only accessible via an hour and a half ferry ride from Rockland, or by air taxi from the Knox County Regional Airport.
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's booming tourism industry is emerging as a cornerstone of an economy hit by declining dairy exports, but the hordes descending on silver screen locations such as Hobbiton are stretching the small island nation's resources.
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Maryland resident Brittany Roush and her ad hoc volunteer group ViequesLove sent an air cargo shipment of satellite phones to Vieques, a small island of about 10,000 full-time residents to the east of Puerto Rico's main island.
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The movie, based on a novel by the same name, centers on the (real-life) couple Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender as newlyweds who struggle to start a family while living on a small island in total isolation.
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The recent killing of an American missionary by members of an isolated tribe on a small island in the Indian Ocean has reignited questions about the fate of the last few groups of people living off the grid.
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Now the Food and Drug Administration has given the green light to test these insects out in the US, meaning thousands of the lab-designed mosquitoes could soon be released on a small island in the Florida Keys.
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As the MV Nyerere approached its destination on Thursday afternoon, the small island of Ukara on Lake Victoria, many of the passengers in the main cabin began to move toward the front of the vessel near the exit.
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"It's going to hurt us," warned Lee Hsien Loong, the prime minister of Singapore, after announcing that the small island state would bar all Chinese visitors and foreigners who had traveled to China within the past 14 days.
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Mr. Yebga and the others are among the more than 11,200 people who last year discovered a circuitous route into the European Union that has left this small island with the most asylum seekers per capita in Europe.
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Henderson Island ought to be one of the most pristine places on earth: an uninhabited South Pacific atoll so remote that the nearest human settlement is the small island 120 miles away where the Bounty mutineers hid out.
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"It's going to hurt us," warned Lee Hsien Loong, the prime minister of Singapore, after announcing that the small island-state would bar all Chinese visitors and foreigners who had traveled to China within the past 14 days.
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"The rest of the world, including all major emerging economies, has made it clear that it is committed to the Paris Agreement," Maldives Environment Minister Thor Abraham, chair of the Alliance of Small Island States (OASIS), told Reuters.
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In reality, you're in for a day of firmly experiencing this small island for what it is: a vacation paradise, a place for people to live and camp, and a plotted nature that you can stomp around in.
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It's still the tale of a killer great white shark terrorizing a small island community, and the three men who set sail to vanquish it, but a lot of details — and huge plot points — changed along the way.
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For example, my home country of Iceland is a small island nation, but millions around the world were able to take part in a shared joy and pride when we played England in the UEFA EURO 2016 quarterfinals.
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It was on March 29, 1516 that the leader of the Venetian Republic, Doge Leonardo Loredan, and his senate decreed that if Jews wanted to stay in Venice, they had to live on a small island surrounded by canals.
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Morrison's coalition defied expectations by holding onto a string of seats in the outer suburbs of Australia's largest cities, as well as in the resources-rich states of Queensland and Western Australia and the small island state of Tasmania.
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Image 2 of 2 (AP) U.S. investigators are working to find out how an airline employee stole an empty commercial airplane from the main airport serving Seattle and crashed into a small island after being chased by military jets.
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The man, who was 23, was airlifted from the small island nation of Nauru to a hospital in Brisbane, Australia, where he "tragically died today from his injuries," Australia's Department of Immigration and Border Protection said in a statement.
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The SolarCity blog details a project in which SolarCity power generation and Tesla Powerpack-based storage helped the small island of Ta'u in American Samoa fix its spotty power problem and cut its reliance on a diesel generator grid.
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"I don't see any reason why any government or country can deny what the science says," said Amjad Abdulla of the Maldives, the chief negotiator for a bloc of island nations known as the Alliance of Small Island States.
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The trial should be pretty low risk, since all of the mosquitoes released are designed to die off, and the location is on Key Haven: a small island off of Key West, which is geographically confined by the ocean.
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Also, the Bahamas and other small island nations work through a regional organization, the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency, to coordinate emergency response and relief and their help is not always clearly visible to people struggling on the ground.
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The European Union, small island states and many other nations had been calling for the Madrid decision to signal that the more than 190 countries participating in the Paris process will submit bolder pledges to cut emissions next year.
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The United States, under President Barack Obama, and China played major roles in shaping the agreement, while leaders from small island countries, such as the Marshall Islands, emerged as the moral voice for those hardest-hit by global warming.
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