But other roads — and supply lines — were still open.
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Brazil's supply lines were now returning to normal, he added.
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It points to the need to diversify your supply lines.
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But keeping those supply lines open is a Sisyphean task.
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He will not be able to sustain his supply lines.
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They're not just attacking an enemy, they're cutting off its supply lines.
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It was about maintaining supply lines, however much that slowed us up.
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Another escalation could disrupt global supply lines and damage a slowing world economy.
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He resolved that nationalizing the mills was essential to securing supply lines overseas.
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The second alternative is to adopt a spider web of supply lines approach.
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Coalition forces surround Mosul, cutting off Islamic State supply lines Coalition forces surround Mosul, cutting off Islamic State supply lines Mosul, the Islamic State group's last major stronghold city in Iraq, is completely cut off, Iraqi officials announced on Wednesday.
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At The International, they had to worry about their supply lines being picked off.
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It is stretched thin and will struggle to maintain supply lines across unfriendly territory.
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Environmental inspections have disrupted some supply lines and added to uncertainty in the market.
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Companies have been doing fairly well managing tariffs, whether it's by supply lines or price.
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The LNA would still need to maintain costly supply lines if a long stalemate occurs.
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The campaign has cut supply lines and financing for the group and shrunk its territory.
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With food shortages and supply lines cut, according to the United Nations, others simply starved.
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He said foreign fighters must leave and rebel supply lines via Turkey be cut off.
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Shopkeepers who once competed over prices now fight to choke their rivals' vulnerable supply lines.
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The road to Fairmount, Indiana, is straight and flanked by corn and power supply lines.
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But the action serves as a threatening reminder: The United States could sever vital supply lines.
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"You're already starting to see businesses starting to think about moving their supply lines," Dimon said.
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On Monday, the army said they had cut off insurgent supply lines and made further advances.
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The Hezbollah-run military media unit said that air raids were aimed at rebel supply lines.
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Avoid overextending supply lines, which are more vulnerable to disasters and increase the likelihood of overuse.
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General Haftar, who is backed by Egypt and the UAE, is still consolidating his supply lines.
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The city's eastern neighborhoods were encircled by government troops last week, cutting off all supply lines.
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The United States uses military supply lines that run food and equipment from Pakistan to Afghanistan.
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Stocks have fallen worldwide as the virus has spread, cutting global supply lines and crippling industry.
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But when the Iron Curtain fell, the supply lines were cut, and tractors rusted in the fields.
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The outbreak will chip away at growth by unsettling supply lines, disrupting tourism and decreasing commodity prices.
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The developments would be a major setback for ISIS, choking off supply lines for the terror group.
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Such an offensive could disrupt supply lines, risking a mass famine in the poorest Arabian Peninsula nation.
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The advance created a chokehold on the terror group by cutting off all supply lines to militants.
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The refining makes the drug much easier to smuggle out into the supply lines to the West.
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Mr. Ronneberg led other raids, attacking German supply lines and destroying a railway bridge with plastic explosives.
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Since developing mines and material supply lines takes years, substantial new supplies won't quickly fill the void.
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Amazon upended all that, he said, by connecting artists with new supply lines and buyers around world.
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American supply lines from Kuwait and Iraq's Umm Qasr port crossed through Sadr's territory in southern Iraq.
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But the river navy provided enough protection to Union supply lines to ensure victory over the Confederate army.
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A further escalation of the trade war could disrupt global supply lines and damage a slowing world economy.
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Supply lines stayed intact, utilities were swiftly restored, damage was minimal, and, most importantly, there were no fatalities.
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Officials in Islamabad say Pakistan is owed that money for its support of the American troops' supply lines.
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Syrian government troops completely encircled rebel-held neighborhoods last week, cutting off all supply lines to the enclave.
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"Without attacking supply lines, and helping addicts and users get clean, it won't ever really solve the problem."
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They have also resulted in a scramble to change supply lines and relocations of some businesses from China.
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In some cases, technological advances are helping by making it easier for companies to shorten their supply lines.
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With many civilizations looking to establish themselves on the coast, you can choke aquatic supply lines with a blockade.
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French troops have led repeated operations to break communication and supply lines from Libya that have fortified such groups.
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To take an airfield or city and hold it, a military has to develop supply lines they can hold.
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They are essential links in supply lines relied on by south-east England for everything from food to fuel.
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Workers can't return to their jobs as supply lines get snarled, extending the forced holiday and fracturing the country.
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The United States and South Korea could hit targets besides artillery, including supply lines and communication facilities, for example.
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It said the capture would have a domino effect on other parts east of Daraa and cut rebel supply lines.
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Boxes full of food, clothes, or other stuff will clog up supply lines and as likely as not go unused.
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Aid agencies fear that a major assult on Hodeida would cut supply lines to the rebel-held north, including Sana'a.
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Last week, Assad's forces severed the main road from the city to Turkey, cutting supply lines for rebels and NGOs.
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He also conducted bombing and strafing missions aimed at disrupting enemy supply lines along the infamous Ho Chi Minh Trail.
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The Close Combat Assault Ration "is a significant improvement in combat feeding" for units in environments with limited supply lines.
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For a long time, asbestos was used in insulation, water supply lines, roof shingles, break pads, and numerous other products.
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"The meat markets are reshaping supply lines," INTL FCStone chief commodities economist Arlan Suderman wrote in a note to clients.
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Albanian smugglers have established direct supply lines via South America and Europe's big cocaine receiving ports in Belgium and Holland.
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In the last few days it has launched a surprise attack near the Turkish border, threatening to cut rebel supply lines.
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Economists warn that the trade wars could damage key supply lines and lead to a further slowdown of the global economy.
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The regime will then try to seize the region's two main highways to split opposition forces and disrupt their supply lines.
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That stockpile will run out at some point in the future, especially on parts that are severely constrained in supply lines.
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The dispute has already cost companies in both countries billions of dollars, disrupted global manufacturing and supply lines, and roiled markets.
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T.E. Lawrence, the British intelligence officer who orchestrated their attacks on Ottoman supply lines, called them "a sideshow of a sideshow".
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Digital technologies have influenced geopolitics ever since the internet crossed borders and computer companies tapped global supply lines in the 85033s.
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Mattis told reporters that he had "no indication" and is "not concerned" that Pakistan will close its airspace or supply lines.
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Financial markets fear the trade war could badly damage global supply lines and prompt a further slowdown of the world economy.
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He continued: Russia concentrated a significant portion of its air campaign against opposition forward positions and supply lines in Aleppo Province.
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He continues: Russia concentrated a significant portion of its air campaign against opposition forward positions and supply lines in Aleppo Province.
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This allows Turkish troops and their proxies to block supply lines between Kurdish forces — and cut an exit route to Iraq.
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Doing so would likely derail the economies of all three countries, upend continental supply lines and send prices for groceries soaring.
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The Chinese government had cut off the import of American recycling, jeopardizing the supply lines that fed Nine Dragons' broader business.
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Khalil al-Hayya, a senior Hamas official, blamed the Palestinian Authority for delays in upgrading the electricity supply lines to Gaza.
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With food shortages and supply lines cut, according to the United Nations, people trapped inside the city have been starving to death.
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The dispute has already cost companies in both countries billions of dollars, disrupted global manufacturing and supply lines, and roiled global markets.
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Disputes over the wars in Ukraine and Syria had not stopped the governments from cooperating on counternarcotics and securing military supply lines.
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In late September, IS gunmen emerged from the desert and hit government forces in central Syria, cutting their supply lines for days.
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The industry's long supply lines are one reason why apparel companies and department stores struggle to adjust to warmer winters, Haverty said.
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Large-scale battles will soon be a thing of the past, as ISIS continues to lose ground, weapons, and key supply lines.
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Losing Hodeidah would seriously weaken the Houthis by severing supply lines from the Red Sea to their stronghold in the capital Sanaa.
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Before the Tab's survey, there were signs that the drought was ending and supply lines into the UK had been re-established.
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"Humanitarian supply lines to Yemen must remain open," said Robert Mardini, the Red Cross's regional director for the Near and Middle East.
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Manufacturers were forced to slow production in December as supply lines were hit by industrial action against President Emmanuel Macron's overhaul of pensions.
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A disorderly exit from the EU in March 2019 with no system in place to ensure drug supplies would threaten those supply lines.
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The duties could disrupt supply lines for U.S. companies that sell chemicals and fertilizers, part of a $215-billion U.S. farm chemical industry.
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The Arab states' aim is to box in the Houthis in Sanaa, cut their supply lines and force them to the negotiating table.
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Fighters retreated into the Sambisa Forest as Nigerian forces aided by a multinational military coalition gained traction and squeezed the group's supply lines.
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They cannot fix ruptured supply lines or send quarantined workers back to the office, nor can they stop the spread of a virus.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson called this week for UK manufacturers to repurpose their supply lines to start producing vital medical equipment including ventilators.
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They lost some of their best commanders and cadres, the commanders said, and their supply lines to Syria were cut by Iraqi forces.
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If the supply lines do get cut, defense experts say, it could make the Afghanistan war costlier to wage from an economic standpoint.
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A Syrian military source said rebel supply lines from Turkey, which backs the insurgents, were under pressure from Russian and Syrian air strikes.
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Turkey quickly took a section of the M4, an east-west highway about 30km south of the border, cutting the YPG's supply lines.
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The EU says the pact is important for global security and is trying to keep economic and financial supply lines to Tehran open.
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Many have relocated to Mayadeen, a town 110 miles southeast of Raqqa near oil facilities and with supply lines through the surrounding desert.
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During the war a lot of the wine was from Algeria because the supply lines were disrupted—you couldn't easily get French wines.
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However, in the absence of cheaper, shorter and acceptable alternative routes, U.S. dependence on Pakistani supply lines has provided Islamabad an important leverage.
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The United States is first trying to isolate Islamic State forces in Mosul from supply lines from their stronghold of Raqqa, in neighboring Syria.
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"The attack, and the considerable losses on the Russian side, stress the continued threat to supply lines for Russia and regime forces," Stratfor said.
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In China, sometimes dubbed the world's workshop, cities have been shut off, flights cancelled and factories closed, shutting supply lines crucial to international businesses.
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The coalition&aposs blockade and fighting have disrupted other supply lines, causing an economic crisis that makes food too expensive for many to afford.
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Uprooting al Qaeda's terrorist infrastructure and supply lines in Afghanistan was diluted from the principal U.S. goal in the country to one of many.
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China is securing its global supply lines, moving into mining ventures in Africa, expanding its ocean shipping fleet and buying ports around the world.
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Instead, over the course of 2018, the United States has targeted Pakistan with more modest moves less likely to trigger a supply lines shutdown.
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The Venezuelan economy's near-collapse has devastated medical facilities and supply lines, and limited state-run emergency care at demonstrations, according to the group.
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In China, sometimes dubbed the world's workshop, cities have been shut off, flights cancelled and factories closed, cutting off supply lines crucial to international businesses.
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The Petersburg siege and battle over supply lines led to the eventual fall of the Confederate capital of Richmond and the surrender of the Confederacy.
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The European Union frets that new U.S. restrictions could pose obstacles to its companies doing business with Russia and threaten the bloc's energy supply lines.
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Hodeidah has been the focus of fighting this year, raising global fears that a battle could cut off supply lines and lead to mass starvation.
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Saturday's air strikes focused on major supply lines into rebel-held areas of Aleppo - the Castello Road and Malah district and around the Handarat camp.
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The American military has acted in an advisory role, helping coalition forces in their effort to shrink Boko Haram territory and cut off supply lines.
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The European Union frets that new US restrictions could pose obstacles to its companies doing business with Russia and threaten the bloc's energy supply lines.
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These days, Biden is like an Army general with dangerously long supply lines who knows that he is vulnerable to attack in hundreds of places.
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And the regime lacks a large-scale plan needed to redevelop an array of once-interconnected economic centers, including factories and supply lines, he said.
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In Iraq, Kurdish forces have cut ISIS supply lines in the country's north, laying the groundwork for an Iraqi government assault on ISIS-held Mosul.
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In recent days, government forces have gained new ground from rebels, bisecting rebel-held territories in Daraa&aposs east and west and severing their supply lines.
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State TV says the offensive aims to cut supply lines between eastern Daraa and rebel-held parts of the provincial capital, which carries the same name.
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Losing Hodeidah would deal a serious blow to the Iran-aligned Houthis, cutting supply lines from the Red Sea to their stronghold in the capital Sanaa.
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And despite Trump's claim, ISIS does not control oil fields in Libya, though supply lines have been disrupted by ISIS assaults in the North African country.
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GHOST CITIES In China, the world's second-largest economy, cities have been shut off, flights cancelled and factories closed, cutting off supply lines to international businesses.
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About 250,000 people are facing a humanitarian crisis in besieged eastern Aleppo since the government cut supply lines to rebel-held areas, the United Nations says.
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Such moves could devastate existing auto supply lines, as well as ultimately be deemed in violation of U.S. non-discrimination obligations in the World Trade Organization.
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Gulf government officials familiar with UAE and Saudi thinking said capturing the coast would block the Houthi supply lines and push them towards the negotiating table.
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"We will avoid entering densely populated areas and we will work to isolate the Houthis by cutting up supply lines," a Yemeni military official told Reuters.
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And the Russian Army demonstrated improved logistics to support war fighters, as well as new technology to conceal and protect those vital supply lines, analysts said.
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Some analysts, however, say that he has extended his supply lines so far that without a quick victory, he could be forced into a humiliating retreat.
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But Lighthizer and Perdue insisted on Tuesday that they will hold China accountable for its commitments, even as the outbreak disrupts global travel and supply lines.
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While shipping off blankets or other items might be well-intentioned, "you don't want to clog up the supply lines," said Daniel Borochoff, president of CharityWatch.org.
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For all its conventional army's problems, it is optimised for conflicts along Russia's immediate borders, giving it an advantage against Western forces with longer supply lines.
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This position, which could be used to put pressure on Chinese supply lines, is an increasing focus of cooperation between India, the United States and Japan.
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Without any deal, trade with the EU would default to basic World Trade Organization rules — a worrying prospect for manufacturers dependent on smooth, uncomplicated supply lines.
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I didn't figure out supply lines until late in the game, messed up a naval invasion, never used paratroopers, and my construction queues remained a mess.
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"Humanitarian supply lines to Yemen must remain open," urged Robert Mardini, the International Committee of the Red Cross's regional director for the Near and Middle East.
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During that conflict Laos became one of the most heavily bombed countries in history as the United States sought to destroy communist supply lines running through it.
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Brexit, Britain's messy departure from the European Union now scheduled to take place at the end of October, could disrupt supply lines linking Britain and the continent.
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ECONOMIC ANXIETY In China, the world's second-largest economy, cities have been shut off, flights canceled and factories closed, cutting off supply lines crucial to international businesses.
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But as Greg Jaffe, a national security reporter at the Washington Post, pointed out, this is less about ISIS than it is about disrupting Iranian supply lines.
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Quarantines and travel bans within China have frozen much of the country's domestic economic activity and forced international businesses to close Chinese stores, factories and supply lines.
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Assad's forces have been focusing offensives in the western provinces of Aleppo, Latakia, Hama and Homs in a campaign to recapture territory and cut rebel supply lines.
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The Syrian government troops backed by Russian air power completely encircled rebel-held neighborhoods in Aleppo city last week, cutting off all supply lines to those areas.
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Nintendo's announcement makes no mention of pre-orders or supply lines, suggesting that the stock issues with NES Classic may carry forward into the SNES Classic era.
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Such an offensive could disrupt supply lines, risking a mass famine in the poorest Arabian Peninsula nation, which is grappling with the world's most urgent humanitarian crisis.
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The 10-day trucker protest left major cities running short on food, gasoline and medical supplies, and officials warned it would take days to restore supply lines.
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That risk prompted British factories to ramp up stocks of parts and finished products at a record pace in March to minimize any disruption to supply lines.
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The stated purpose of the offensive is to clear Islamic State militants from one of their last remaining strongholds and supply lines on the Syrian-Turkish border.
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A member of the Syrian Defense Forces told a journalist for France 24 in Raqqa that his supply lines were being attacked 15 to 16 times daily.
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In a statement Tuesday, Nike said that it didn't directly source products from Xinjiang, but was investigating its supply lines to ensure no forced labor was involved.
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The offensive was coordinated with nearby Chad, Cameroon, and Niger, who attacked Boko Haram bases outside of Nigeria and cut off some of its key supply lines.
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International aid groups prepared for the worst-case situation by moving staff members to safety while working on contingency plans to keep vital humanitarian supply lines open.
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It comes at a time when American and other countries' companies were already shifting supply lines from China to elsewhere due to new tariffs and trade tensions.
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Chief Acevedo said that there were no reports of any air quality hazards, but crews had to secure supply lines of propylene, a gas, at the site.
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Between the Pakistani and the Central Asian supply lines, two other routes could serve as possible alternatives, potentially providing Washington other options instead of depending on Pakistan.
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Lehne said the economic underpinning of the EU makes it more resilient than some people realize, as transnational supply lines and free movement act as a powerful unifier.
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But, after decades of economic integration with China, most American companies are largely dug in where they are, with supply lines and markets organized around their presence there.
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Inside Jarablus: What happens when ISIS loses control of a city The developments would be a major setback for ISIS, choking off supply lines for the terror group.
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The rebel advance into Ramouseh -- where rebels have captured a government military complex -- has now raised questions about the security of supply lines into government-held western Aleppo.
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Government forces last week seized control of Rabiaa, the last big town in western Latakia province held by the rebels, and crucial for their supply lines from Turkey.
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Portugal's master tactician Fernando Santos needs to cut supply lines to a player whom the French call "Monsieur Griezmann" as a sign of respect — despite his boyish looks.
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The Sunni militants have used suicide bombings to hold back offensives by the Syrian army and their allies by deploying small groups of fighters to disrupt supply lines.
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Mattis said last week that the U.S. military was still working with the country to keep open and running military supply lines that run from Pakistan to Afghanistan.
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While Israel has targeted Hezbollah and Iran's supply lines in Lebanon and Syria hundreds of times in the last eight years, the recent strikes were both more blatant.
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Rebels said their capture of the district would thwart repeated army attempts to rupture supply lines linking rebel-held areas to the east and west of the city.
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Analysts have questioned whether the Fed cutting interest rates from already low levels would be enough to power the economy through disrupted supply lines and intense consumer anxiety.
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The U.S.-China trade war meanwhile is playing havoc with global supply lines and markets that are vital to South Korea's major exporters including tech giants and carmakers.
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Their struggles illustrate the complex global consequences of U.S. protectionism as tariffs launched by President Donald Trump spark retaliations and redraw global agricultural supply lines around the globe.
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"They want to do something because their supply lines, their supply chains are being broken like toys," Trump told Republican lawmakers Thursday at the GOP retreat in Baltimore.
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His remarks came amid reports of a government drive in northern Syria that threatened supply lines from Turkey to rebel forces in and around the Syrian city of Aleppo.
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Florence, which has dumped up to 36 inches (91 cm) of rain on North Carolina since Thursday, was interrupting supply lines around the state and into neighboring South Carolina.
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Trump has said he may put new tariffs on another $325 billion in Chinese imports, which could severely disrupt global supply lines and derail an already-slowing world economy.
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Analysts said supply lines would be disrupted for weeks and possibly months as global markets grappled with the damage inflicted by Harvey on the world's largest fuel supply hub.
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Longer range precision fire can hit enemy troop concentrations, supply lines and equipment essential to a coordinated attack, while allowing forces to stay farther back from incoming enemy fire.
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The southern separatists and UAE forces played a major role on the ground in a coalition attempt to seize Hodeidah and cut off supply lines to Houthi-held areas.
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The White House worries that taking such harsh steps could prompt Pakistan to retaliate by shutting down supply lines on its soil used by the US military in Afghanistan.
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Syria and Russia, its key military backer, announced the creation of the three initial corridors on Thursday, after Syrian forces encircled the city and cut off rebel supply lines.
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"(The Fed is) looking ahead and they know there's increased downside risks around trade and supply lines," said Charlie Ripley, Senior Investment strategist for Allianz Investment Management in Minneapolis.
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Officials warned it would take days to restore supply lines disrupted by the crippling stoppage that at its height saw over 1,000 roadblocks on key highways across the country.
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But these are largely technical bodies, not ones that can hammer out political agreements — or at least guidelines — on issues like medical supply lines, financial assistance and border policies.
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White House National Economic Council Director Larry KudlowLawrence (Larry) Alan KudlowMORE expressed confidence that U.S. supply lines and the workforce would be largely unaffected by the coronavirus outbreak Sunday.
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The company previously said Sunday that its supply lines were facing stress as a result of the outbreak, leading to delivery delays and items possibly going out of stock.
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Manufacturers reported production had fallen last month as the strikes ground on, particularly in the aeronautics, car-making and electrical equipment sectors, which all rely on complex supply lines.
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Efforts to contain the lethal respiratory illness have derailed the Chinese economy and frozen essential supply lines for global companies that depend on factories in China and neighboring countries.
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In Asia's tech industries there is much talk of the world being divided into two technospheres, one American, one Chinese, with the industry's supply lines multiplying and bifurcating accordingly.
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The first crack importers and suppliers were British Jamaican gangs who used existing friendships and supply lines from the Caribbean to import cocaine and wash it up into crack.
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"Another strategy would be to go further upstream, maybe capital-linked or advance payment-linked supply lines that could optimize our supply chain to reduce risk for smelters," he said.
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As its supply lines are cut, in northern Iraq for example, ISIS has to spend more to transport fighters, weapons and supplies via more circuitous routes across the Jazeera desert.
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The war, widely seen across the region as a proxy conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran, has been stalemated for years, threatening supply lines to feed nearly 30 million inhabitants.
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The area's proximity to Iraqi supply lines reaching Qayyara air base further north, which will be used as a logistics hub for the push on Mosul, lends it strategic importance.
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The document published by The Washington Post called for intelligence sharing to identify leadership targets, training camps, supply lines and headquarters of the Nusra Front, al Qaeda's affiliate in Syria.
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The strategy also takes aim at GOP supply lines -- seeking to cut off or marginalize donors and fundraising sources, like conservative moneyman Richard Uihlein, with even indirect connections to Moore.
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The process of finding new suppliers would also be lengthy and time-consuming, he added, saying that it could take years to find, vet, test and approve new supply lines.
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Since the 2016 election, the president's declarations about his readiness to wage a trade war have prompted heavy users of steel — foreign and domestic — to look into alternative supply lines.
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Modi, who ordered the complete nationwide lockdown on Tuesday, has reassured citizens that there is no need to panic buy and that supply lines were stable -- but to little effect.
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Khalifa Hifter, frustrating his predictions of an easy march into the capital, Tripoli, and forcing him to rely on long and circuitous supply lines through the desert to the south.
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Globalization, technology and the integration of global manufacturing and supply lines have radically changed the values that are used to measure the underlying economic health and well-being of nations.
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Efforts to contain the outbreak in China and South Korea and across eastern and southern Asia have already disrupted crucial supply lines for global businesses and derailed the Chinese economy.
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With bridges over the Tigris destroyed by coalition aircraft to cut Islamic State supply lines, the fighters use small boats to ferry men and supplies from western Mosul, residents said.
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Beijing resembles a ghost town, with main thoroughfares and tourist spots almost deserted, as the country has sealed off cities, cancelled flights and closed factories, cutting supply lines to global businesses.
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The war, widely seen across the region as a proxy conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran, has been in stalemate for years, threatening supply lines to feed nearly 30 million inhabitants.
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"Prices could see an increase in some of the items affected by the sanctions due to re-routing of supply lines, shipping costs, or price increases from the sources," Alkhater said.
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In other parts of the country, especially in the south, AMISOM troops live in fortified camps with thin supply lines, while al-Shabab wander into villages and operate as they please.
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It would also severely disrupt the production supply lines of German car companies including Volkswagen, Audi, Mercedes and BMW, all of whom manufacture in Mexico for export to the United States.
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That includes £300 million announced this week for departments to buy freight capacity on ferries to ensure critical goods such as medicines and chemicals do not have their supply lines disrupted.
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Tooze called China "the hub of a complex of emerging market economies," with connected manufacturing and other supply lines, commodity and product sales, and countless other businesses relying on the yuan.
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The Germans launched their final assault just seven miles from the fight at Hatten on January 24, looking to cut American supply lines back to Strasbourg in the town of Haguenau.
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They control a stretch of the M4, the main east-west highway about 30km south of the border, allowing them to bisect the Kurdish enclave and cut the YPG's supply lines.
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Iraqi forces also launched an operation to cut ISIS supply lines west of Mosul, according to a statement released Saturday by Hashd al Shaabi, also known as the Popular Mobilization Units (PMUs).
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As with Spice (synthetic cannabis) in England and Wales, "street valium" has diffused from the online marketplace to the streets, via enterprising dealers, as well as from more traditional analogue supply lines.
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Now, many of those insurgent gains have been reversed, and Russian air power helped cut off critical opposition supply lines into Turkey, isolating the rebel-held portion of Aleppo, Syria's largest city.
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But Mattis said that the Pentagon will continue to coordinate such logistics and added that he has "no indication" and is "not concerned" that Pakistan will close its airspace or supply lines.
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As the outbreak's center of gravity shifts to Europe and North America, the deadly illness is straining health care systems, as well as supply lines for medicines, ventilators and other critical items.
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The 1,300 protesters, demanding an immediate exit from coal use, also blocked tracks for coal supply lines, as well as set fires to a pump station, switch cabinets and vehicles, RWE said.
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They were pushing towards the main Damascus-Aleppo highway, the capture of which would cut rebel supply lines and open the door to an army advance into the heart of the province.
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Barnett Rubin, a State Department official during the Obama administration and a professor at New York University, said that the Pentagon will continue to need Pakistan for military supply lines into Afghanistan.
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Over the past four years, to protect their supply lines, the guerrillas had wiped out the river pirates who had terrorized Parmana's fishermen, robbing their boats of motors and killing several people.
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Within two days of setting off toward Bashiqa, they had turned the valley into a grid of berms and trenches that prevented an ISIS breakout and cut off the group's supply lines.
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Travel bans, quarantines, store closures and idled factories across Asia are likely to derail the Chinese economy and hinder U.S. companies that depend on travel, supply lines and sales throughout the continent.
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This, coupled with Iran&aposs strategic geographic proximity to critical energy fields and global energy supply lines, gives the country a great deal of leverage in both deterring and coercing its adversaries.
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Meanwhile, individual drug companies are taking steps to prepare their supply lines in the event of a disorderly or no-deal Brexit that could threaten the smooth flow of products across borders.
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Taking Tal Afar and the surrounding areas would cut supply lines between Mosul and ISIS-controlled Syria, as well as shut off potential escape routes for ISIS commanders during any retreat from Mosul.
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Residents have been living under siege since they were gradually encircled by Syrian government troops and their allies in the spring, with the final supply lines into the enclave cut off last month.
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"Emirati armed forces members and Yemeni resistance fighters managed to cut supply lines for the Houthi coup militias between Hodeidah and Taiz south of Heys city," WAM said, citing an Emirati army source.
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For now, the rebel supply lines to Aleppo are open, since the border crossing at Bab al-Hawa is still under the control of Turkey-backed forces, but that might not last long.
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Catastrophic flooding from Hurricane Florence, which has dumped up to 36 inches (91 cm) of rain on North Carolina since Thursday, has interrupted supply lines around the state and into neighboring South Carolina.
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The forces that went ashore at the Yellow Sea port were able to break Communist supply lines, facilitate a breakout from the Pusan Perimeter, and clear the way for the liberation of Seoul.
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Yet such action comes with risks that it could raise the cost of the Afghanistan war and jeopardize the U.S.-led coalition's access to key Pakistani supply lines, according to national security analysts.
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Rebels urged to surrender The Syrian army said Wednesday its troops and supporters have surrounded Aleppo and cut off "all supply lines and corridors" to the rebel-held neighborhoods, state-run media reported.
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Troops were now headed toward the centrally located area of Madyara "to cut off the terrorists' supply lines between the north and the south parts of Ghouta," the Syrian state media report added.
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The escalation has raised international alarm because of the threat to civilians, both from fighting in the city and from potential disruption to supply lines that keep more than 8 million Yemenis from famine.
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The trade tensions are hurting supply lines, especially that for higher-end smartphones, with many manufacturers looking to move production out of China and into countries such as Vietnam, Taiwan and Bangladesh, Raychaudhuri noted.
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The United Nations considers Yemen to be facing the most urgent humanitarian crisis in the world, with millions of people potentially facing starvation if the war disrupts supply lines needed to bring in aid.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Traders and ship brokers are rerouting millions or barrels of fuel to Latin America to compensate for broken supply lines after Hurricane Harvey crippled the U.S. Gulf of Mexico refining hub.
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About 250,000 people -- including about 90,000 children, according to the World Health Organization -- are facing a humanitarian crisis in eastern Aleppo since supply lines to rebel-held areas were cut, the United Nations says.
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A U.S.-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters supported by coalition air strikes cut off the group's supply lines to Manbij in a rapid advance this month against Islamic State in the area.
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But eventually its internal supply lines grew strained, and it started importing more, increasing the price of coal on international markets — particularly metallurgical coal, which is used to make steel (and which Appalachia provides).
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Were ISIS to capture the entire city, it would give the group morale-boosting control of a second provincial capital in Syria, after Raqqa, and improve its supply lines across the border into Iraq.
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The Americans went on the attack with every gun and torpedo that they had, repelling the enemy vessels that had threatened to cut off the supply lines for an amphibious landing led by Gen.
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Capturing them would help cut Islamic State supply lines between Mosul and its Syrian territories, and offer a base for the Hashid's stated plan ultimately to take their battle with Islamic State into Syria.
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Iran's $2628 billion energy deal with China in 28500 permits Beijing to station up to 6900,2628 security personnel in Iran to protect its investments, with more to guard supply lines, including in the Gulf.
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The goal of the allies, led by the Emiratis, is to defeat the Houthis in Hodeidah, the only Red Sea port under their control, and cut off their supply lines to the capital, Sanaa.
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Backdoor supply lines from China and Russia are beginning to reopen, the source said, and the North Koreans are aware that something its most important economic partners view as too extreme could alienate them.
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" Human rights organizations, such as the Laogai Research Foundation and China Labor Watch, say the biggest problem in stopping the export of products made in prisons is that the supply lines are "almost untraceable.
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Beijing's communist leadership has sealed off cities, cancelled flights and closed factories to limit an epidemic roiling the world's second biggest economy to the alarm of global markets and businesses dependent on Chinese supply lines.
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Syrian government troops, backed by Russian air power, completely encircled rebel-held neighborhoods in eastern Aleppo last month, cutting off all supply lines to those areas and leaving them with only weeks worth of food.
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Although the goal was to cut militant supply lines, it forced people to use ferries to cross the river and its tributaries and ruptured a major lifeline for civilians, raising prices of goods and food.
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Indeed, given that the supply lines are Pakistan's most powerful tool of leverage, Islamabad will hold its fire as long as it can—and close them down only if provoked in a really big way.
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The Iraqi army and a Shi'ite paramilitary group called the Abbas Division recaptured the Badush area in recent days as they cut remaining Islamic State supply lines to Mosul, completing the encirclement of the city.
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Economists say the U.S. could also be hindered by disrupted supply lines, travel limits, canceled travel and events, and a sharp decline in economic growth in China, where the virus is believed to have originated.
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And, after twenty-four Pakistani soldiers were killed in a U.S.-led air strike on the border with Afghanistan, he took charge of the delicate negotiations with Pakistan to reopen NATO supply lines to Afghanistan.
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The disruptions are already rippling through global supply lines from Asia all the way to the United States, and is expected to lead to weaker foreign demand and patchy global trade in the coming months.
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Now, a new report from the University of California, Berkeley, shows just how shadowy those supply lines are, as scores of labels rely not just on factories in India but also on exploited home workers.
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Today, his group has customers in Australia, the Middle East and Asia, as well as major European markets such as France, Italy, Germany and Britain, where drug delays could worsen if Brexit disrupts supply lines.
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Even if Huawei is eventually spared, and the truce in America's trade war with China turns into a frosty peace, the era of frictionless supply lines flowing from Shenzhen to San Francisco and Stuttgart has ended.
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A month ago, the Syrian army and its allies cut supply lines between Khan al-Shih and the town of Zakiya to its south which is largely peaceful due to a previous deal with the government.
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The increasingly acrimonious trade dispute has rattled investors who fear that the countries are careening dangerously down a track that will badly damage global supply lines and put the brakes on an already slowing world economy.
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Beijing's communist leadership has sealed off cities, cancelled flights and closed factories to limit an epidemic roiling the world's second-biggest economy with ripple effects felt by global markets and businesses dependent on Chinese supply lines.
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GHOST CITIES China's capital of Beijing resembles a ghost town, with main thoroughfares and tourist spots almost deserted, as the country has sealed off cities, canceled flights and closed factories, cutting supply lines to global businesses.
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China's lack of bases was exposed in 2014 when China's navy stretched its supply lines and logistics to deploy 18 ships to search for a missing Malaysian airliner across the southern reaches of the Indian Ocean.
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The militants were also disrupting army supply lines and attacking the Mahr and Jazal gas fields, in an area which contains the country's largest gas reserves and facilities that once generated much of its electricity needs.
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After around a week of heavy Russian air strikes, Syrian government troops and their allies broke through rebel defenses to reach two Shi'ite towns in northern Aleppo province on Wednesday, choking opposition supply lines from Turkey.
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Regarding a U.S.-China deal, Dimon said he's "skeptical it will happen before 2020," and added that he has spoken with the president about the impact of trade war on business, capital expenditure and supply lines.
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On Tuesday, Zambian lawmakers voted to extend the state of emergency by another 90 days to give law enforcement agencies "enhanced measures" to curb "rising cases of politically motivated fires and vandalism of vital electricity supply lines".
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The air strikes focused on major supply lines into rebel-held areas - the Castello Road and Malah district - while fighting raged in the Suleiman al Halabi neighbourhood, the front line to the north of Aleppo's Old City.
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The truce offered relief from a nearly year-long dispute in which the countries have slapped tariffs on billions of dollars of each other's imports, disrupting global supply lines, roiling markets and dragging on global economic growth.
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U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura halted his efforts to conduct the talks after the Syrian army, backed by Russian air strikes, advanced against rebel forces north of Aleppo, choking opposition supply lines from Turkey to the city.
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His touchstone for thinking about politics is the riot, which he presents as the incipient form of a new mode of cooperation in which the dispossessed threaten to break and reappropriate the supply lines of global capitalism.
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However, what I just outlined consumes a lot of command points, and that means foregoing other HQ abilities like constructing pontoon bridges or sending emergency fuel and ammo supplies to units that have outrun our supply lines.
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The European Union fears the new U.S. restrictions could be an obstacle to its companies doing business with Russia and threaten the bloc's energy supply lines, but the 28-country bloc is divided over how to respond.
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Unable to retake that territory easily with conventional means, Syrian forces appear to have used chemical weapons both on and behind the front lines, simultaneously halting the opposition's advance while devastating its supply lines and staging areas.
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Dr. Anne Schuchat, the agency's principle deputy director, further confirmed that THC vapes obtained outside of legal supply lines – including those on the black market and those obtained from friends or family – seem to be the biggest offender.
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The truce offered relief from a nearly year-long trade standoff in which the countries have slapped tariffs on billions of dollars of each other's imports, disrupting global supply lines, roiling markets and dragging on global economic growth.
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About 250,000 people are facing a humanitarian crisis in eastern Aleppo since the government cut supply lines to rebel-held areas, the United Nations says, with severe medical shortages and food stocks tipped to run out within weeks.
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Just a few weeks ago, Syrians in opposition-held parts of Aleppo were trying to leave, fearing President Bashar al-Assad's advancing forces were about to impose a siege after cutting rebel supply lines north of the city.
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Private businesses — ranging from home improvement stores like Home Depot and Lowe's to grocers such as HEB in Texas and Publix in Florida — went beyond the call of duty to re-establish supply lines ravaged by the storms.
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A coalition naval blockade and restrictions on imports of food, medicine, and fuel has been cast as a means of choking opposition supply lines, but it's more significant effect is widespread starvation and preventable disease among ordinary Yemenis.
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A few years from now, engineers may be organizing with those who work the supply lines, from warehouses to the cobalt mines of the Global South, and with those directly touched by the implacable force of the state.
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To prevent the city from falling again, Afghan troops have tried to secure main roads leading into Kunduz, including Highway 3 to the east, after supply lines were cut during the 2015 siege, slowing efforts to regain control.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union countries must take care not to damage food and medicine supply lines as they slap on border restrictions in the drive to curb the spread of coronavirus, the EU's executive arm said on Monday.
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Some of the island's 85033 municipalities have had to use their own resources to get supplies from those distribution centers, but federal officials say supply lines are now open to every locality, whether by ground, sea or air.
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The slump caught most economists and the Bank of France off guard - the central bank had forecast 0.2% growth in the fourth quarter - as more than a month of transport strikes over pension reform hit factories' supply lines.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - About 50,000 people have fled an upsurge in fighting in northern Syria, requiring urgent deliveries of food and water despite some supply lines being cut, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Wednesday.
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According to Syrian state television, the army is making a ground push in several areas to tighten their siege of rebel-held neighborhoods, and has cut off supply lines from the rebel-held province of Idlib in the north.
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If we're assuming Daenerys will also have to contend with Euron Greyjoy, Lannisport would be a good tactical choice — taking it would cut off Lannister supply lines, and give Dany a base from which to attack the Iron Islands.
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The coalition also has blocked most ports, letting supplies into Hodeida in coordination with the U.N. The air campaign and fighting have disrupted other supply lines, causing an economic crisis that makes food too expensive for many to afford.
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Iraqi forces are focused on cutting key supply lines into Mosul, a senior military official told reporters Wednesday, but it may then take more than 25,000 troops to liberate the city, many of whom still need to be trained.
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Economists have said that two trade disputes could damage supply lines and pinch consumers at a time when the global economic expansion that followed the 2008 financial crisis has started to sour and the risk of recession has risen.
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Inside Mosul: Tunnels, resistance and terror Iraqi forces have now launched an operation to cut ISIS supply lines west of Mosul, according to a statement released Saturday by Hashd al Shabi, also known as the Popular Mobilization Units (PMUs).
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Emirati-led troops have advanced along the southwestern coast to the outskirts of Hodeidah under a strategy to box in the Houthis in the capital Sanaa and cut off their supply lines to force them to the negotiating table.
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Islamic State said in an online statement it had captured several villages near Azaz, which cut rebel supply lines from there to the town of Marea farther southeast, isolating the latter from other rebel-held areas, the Observatory said.
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It is the main port used to feed Yemen's 30 million people and has been the focus of fighting this year, raising global fears that a full-scale assault could cut off supply lines and lead to mass starvation.
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Given the disruption to international product supply lines and rising input costs resulting from Trump's tariffs, the dollar is perceived as a safe haven and it strengthened after levies were imposed on Chinese, European, and Canadian imports this year.
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His group linked up with other Jewish partisans, as well as groups like the Communist partisan force Armia Ludowa, and spent the war disrupting German supply lines and communications and ferreting out Poles who were collaborating with the Nazis.
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The Saudi-led coalition ignored a resounding diplomatic outcry over concern for the safety of the city's 600,000 residents and the possibility that the fighting could disrupt supply lines for urgent humanitarian assistance to millions of others in Yemen.
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Looking ahead, the effects of a delayed release will likely be compounded further by the effects of the pandemic — tech companies are already struggling with the fallout from damaged supply lines and store closures left in the virus's wake.
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Not by a long shot Sudden liberal opposition to Electoral College not about democracy, but about power Congress should pass currently-pending legislation that would dramatically tighten U.S. sanctions on the al-Assad regime, including its Iranian supply lines.
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With still no deal on how Britain will trade with the EU once it leaves, retailers and manufacturers have warned a "no-deal" Brexit could cause food and medicine shortages due to expected chaos at ports that could paralyze supply lines.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebel fighters have launched a major assault on government-held southwestern parts of Aleppo to try to reopen supply lines into opposition-held areas of the city after the army and its allies tightened their siege last week.
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The toymaker sources more than two-thirds of its U.S. products from China and the country's tit-for-tat tariffs war with the United States has forced the company to rework its supply lines, and retailers to delay taking shipments.
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On Thursday, the Washington Post published a leaked document it said Kerry would put forward in Moscow calling for intelligence sharing to identify leadership targets, training camps, supply lines and headquarters of the Nusra Front, al Qaeda's affiliate in Syria.
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Rebel forces lost the town of Rabiya in Latakia province over the weekend, their second major setback near the Turkish border in northwestern Syria in recent weeks as the government and Russia seek to cut rebel supply lines to Turkey.
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Securing oil supply lines like these across the globe puts the lives of servicemen and women at risk, to say nothing of the operational risks of using big containers of very flammable liquid and gas fuels in active war zones.
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Hodeidah, currently held by the Houthis with thousands of coalition forces massed on the outskirts, became the focus of the war last year, raising fears that a full-scale assault could cut off supply lines and lead to mass starvation.
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SYDNEY, Sept 30 (Reuters) - The world's fourth biggest copper deposit Australia's Olympic Dam remained indefinitely idle on Friday and production at some of the country's major steelworks halted, after a massive power outage, disrupting supply lines of raw materials to Asia.
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After Trump's initial threat, experts immediately warned of the catastrophic impact closing the border would have on the U.S. economy, including cutting off supply lines for U.S. automakers, raising prices for grocery shoppers, and forcing businesses to lay off staff.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's BASF on Wednesday said its major chemical production sites in Texas, Port Arthur and Freeport, remain operational for now despite Tropical Storm Harvey, but the company is keeping close watch because supply lines could be at risk.
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Giacometti's dedication is what rivets us to him and has reliably come, should money be involved, to break the bank—a spiritual gold standard for a time of nervous suspicion that art's prestige has outrun its supply lines of meaning.
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GENEVA, Feb 10 (Reuters) - About 50,000 people have fled an upsurge in fighting in northern Syria, requiring urgent deliveries of food and water despite some supply lines being cut, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Wednesday.
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So the thousands of missions flown by American warplanes, and hundreds of US special forces deployed to Syria, were supposed to accomplish two things: cut ISIS's supply lines between Syria and Iraq, and back Kurdish forces in their fight against ISIS.
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The Ninth Division, an armored unit, had positioned itself to the north of Mosul after fighting its way along a dusty ridge west of the city to cut the Islamic State's supply lines and potential escape routes to the west.
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The attack seems to be a bid to cut supply lines from Turkey to areas held by the opposition forces or even an effort to encircle and besiege the city of Idlib itself, where some 700,000 people live, aid organizations said.
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It has also faced growing scepticism over its intervention in Yemen, where the United Nations says millions of people could starve to death because of supply lines disrupted by a Saudi-led war against the Houthi movement which controls the capital.
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A recent analysis by the American Enterprise Institute, a policy organization in Washington, found that Islamic State militants operating as "desert brigades" south of Surt had ambushed Libyan military positions, disrupted supply lines with explosives and established checkpoints on key roads.
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U.N. officials fear a prolonged battle for Hodeidah, where the Houthis are dug in to protect supply lines from the Red Sea to their bastion in the capital Sanaa, will aggravate what is already the world's most urgent humanitarian crisis.
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BASF said the two Ludwigshafen steam crackers, which turn oil distillates into basic petrochemical building blocks for anything from plastics and coatings to solvents, would gradually resume output over the next few days because alternative supply lines will circumvent the disaster area.
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Below are some of the costs of Trump's push to rewrite the terms of global trade, with China and other top trade partners: Tariffs have disrupted international supply lines, roiled global financial markets and encouraged manufacturers to invest in plants outside China.
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The severing of the supply lines has stopped U.N. food supplies reaching the enclaves, where 12.7 percent of children and 25 percent of pregnant women are suffering from moderate acute malnutrition, much higher than the national average of 4.9 percent, the U.N. said.
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Assad's forces, backed by Russian air strikes, have advanced on the rebels north of the Syrian city of Aleppo in recent days, choking opposition supply lines from Turkey and contributing to the collapse of U.N.-backed peace talks in Geneva on Wednesday.
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Below are some of the costs of Trump's push to rewrite the terms of global trade, with China and other top trade partners: Tariffs have disrupted international supply lines, roiled global financial markets and encouraged manufacturers to invest in plants outside China.
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Yemen is the poorest country in the Arabian peninsula, and the United Nations says the war has created the world's most urgent humanitarian disaster, with millions of people totally dependent on aid and at risk of famine if supply lines are cut.
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Iraqi forces in the east and north of the city were clearing areas they had recaptured on Thursday before advancing any further, officers said, and the army was trying to cut supply lines to the town of Tel Keyf, north of Mosul.
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Water supply lines are usually not a big deal, but waste lines must slope a minimum of one-quarter inch per foot (less will make the lines prone to clogging) and a maximum of three inches (more, and they will drain too quickly).
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As millions of people are effectively under stay-in-place orders, the ability of grocery stores to maintain supply lines will be crucial in the coming weeks, meaning that companies like Tyson Foods will be pressed to continue operating at full capacity.
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There are fears that a prolonged battle for the city, where the Houthis are dug in to protect critical supply lines from the Red Sea to their bastion in the capital Sanaa, could aggravate what is already the world's most urgent humanitarian crisis.
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While government forces coming from the east and west had yet to meet and successfully block rebel supply lines on Thursday, fighting and airstrikes in the area had cut off the main route used to deliver humanitarian aid, according to Mercy Corps, an aid group.
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"We noticed dozens of companies that said they were using Breaking News for all different kinds of use cases, but primarily to learn about things that were happening around the world that were impacting their employees, their facilities, their supply lines," Bergman told BuzzFeed News.
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Recent advances by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias, and by Syrian rebels backed by Turkey, have made inroads into Islamic State holdings in Aleppo province, cutting them off from the Turkish border and supply lines along it.
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Below are some of the costs of Trump's push to rewrite the terms of global trade, with China and other top trade partners: GLOBAL ECONOMY Tariffs have disrupted international supply lines, roiled global financial markets and encouraged manufacturers to invest in plants outside China.
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Although limited to the capital, Juba, the force would create conditions for the opposition to return and would free up U.N. peacekeepers to go further afield, helping to bring about a ceasefire, which the opposition, with no military supply lines, would accept, Musila said.
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However, concern that business costs are likely to rise in the United States whoever wins in November's elections is pushing U.S. firms to accelerate shortening supply lines away from Asia toward Mexico, said Cesar Ponce, chief executive of WDF Services, a Mexicali aerospace supplier.
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" Hadi al-Ameri, a prominent Iraqi official who leads the Badr Organization, a longstanding militia backed by Iran, said in an interview this year as the siege of Falluja began that it was a military necessity to "surround the city, to cut off supply lines.
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The White House has also threatened to take further punitive actions, including declaring Pakistan a state sponsor of terror, though experts have questioned how far the Trump administration may be willing to push Islamabad, for fear of having its supply lines to Afghanistan cut off.
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WASHINGTON — Recent gains against the Islamic State in eastern Syria have helped sever critical supply lines to Iraq and set the stage for what will be the biggest fight yet against the Sunni militancy, the battle to retake Mosul, Pentagon officials said on Monday. Gen.
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The commanders told Reuters the missiles with a range of 20 km (12 miles) had been provided in "excellent quantities" in response to the attack that has cut rebel supply lines from the Turkish border to opposition-held parts of the city of Aleppo.
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The battle for control of Al Hudaydah set off a major international diplomatic outcry over concern for the safety of the city's 600,000 residents and the threat that the fighting could disrupt supply lines for urgent humanitarian assistance to eight million others in Yemen.
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Read: ISIS executed 2,114 civilians in 19 months, human rights group says Calling in airstrikes ... on a tablet For now, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) -- a makeshift alliance of Kurds and Arab groups -- continue to close in on some ISIS oilfields and squeeze their supply lines.
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"Around 25 years from now, where those [demand and supply] lines cross is known by some as the 'jaws of death'—the point at which we will not have enough water to supply our needs, unless we take action to change things," Bevan told the Guardian.
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In How to Cook a Wolf, food supply lines are disrupted, fuel is scarce, and everyone has to remember to build a "blackout shelf" to be sure they'll have enough to live on in case there is a bombing and they can't go out to get groceries.
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In June, the Saudi-led coalition launched the battle for Al Hudaydah in an effort to tip the power balance against the Houthis, ignoring a diplomatic outcry over concern for the safety of the city's residents and the threat that fighting could pose to humanitarian supply lines.
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It is because Pakistan insists that if the Taliban are to be persuaded to join peace talks over Afghanistan and the supply lines through Pakistan to the United States forces are not disrupted or stopped, the United States must not allow an Indian security presence in Afghanistan.
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There is also a lesson, I think, for many other causes, from the environment to women's empowerment to global health: The best way for nonprofits to get large-scale results is sometimes to work with corporations to change behavior and supply lines — while whacking them when they resist.
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Supply lines sustaining construction projects for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar have been interrupted, and a regional championship tournament that was scheduled to take place in Qatar in December was moved to Kuwait because Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E. and Bahrain had refused to participate in the original location.
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British national dies fighting ISIS in Syria Goods scarce, prices skyrocketing About 250,000 people are facing a humanitarian crisis in eastern Aleppo since the government cut supply lines to rebel-held areas, the United Nations says, with severe medical shortages and food stocks tipped to run out within weeks.
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Two of Britain's biggest carmakers, BMW and Peugeot, both said that, despite the delay to Brexit, they would go ahead next week with factory shutdowns that had been deliberately scheduled to minimize disruption to their cross-border supply lines in the event of a no-deal departure on March 29.
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Two of Britain's biggest carmakers, BMW and Peugeot, both said that, despite the delay to Brexit, they would go ahead next week with factory shutdowns that had been deliberately scheduled to minimise disruption to their cross-border supply lines in the event of a no-deal departure on March 29.
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AMSTERDAM, March 4 (Reuters) - The chief executive officer of healthcare equipment maker Philips on Wednesday said the company's supply lines in China are beginning to recover from shutdowns caused by the coronavirus outbreak there and it cannot yet estimate how large the impact will be on its first-quarter results.
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In the UK the challenge is especially acute because the buffer between supply and demand is tighter than in other European countries as old fossil fuel plants close, while Britain lacks Germany's supply lines to import power and maintain grid frequency - the change in direction of the electrical current - when local supplies drop.
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In this militaristic Thunderdome world that we just created, there is an impenetrable wall around the five boroughs, so nothing can come in, or out—the residents of the Bronx cannot escape into Westchester, and folks in Queens or Brooklyn cannot maintain eastern food supply lines from Long Island (water is an exception).
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Related: The World Has Gotten More Peaceful, Except the Middle East A statement from the Manbij Military Council said its forces had already cut Islamic State supply lines leading north, east and south from the city, and were now close enough to Manbij itself to be able to fire on Islamic State militants.
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Since then, opposition representatives and their Western backers have lambasted Moscow for the vital support it has provided government offensives — most critically in Aleppo province, where the capital city is now nearly completely surrounded by regime forces and allied militias, including Hezbollah fighters, and where supply lines to Turkey have been cut off.
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The offensive has retaken swathes of rebel-held territory and cut off supply lines to Aleppo from Turkey with the help of Syrian-Kurdish YPG fighters, whom the Americans regard as their principal ally on the ground against IS. Such has been its speed that Mr Assad's forces are in need of a breather.
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What I don't understand is why, if America is getting out of the Middle East, we are apparently spending so much time and energy trying to strong-arm Syrian rebels into surrendering to the dictator who murdered their families, or why it is so important for Iran to maintain its supply lines to Hezbollah.
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Iranian leaders insisted their intent was to "nip terrorism in the bud," but their tacit goal was also — and more importantly — to maintain land access and supply lines to their main proxy, Lebanon's Hezbollah, as part of the Islamic Republic's commitment to the "axis of resistance" and its "strategic depth" policy in the region.
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A newer generation of military historians—for instance, John Mosier, in " The Blitzkrieg Myth" —argues persuasively that the blitzkrieg happened mostly in panicked headlines, that the German tank corps had outrun its supply lines, and that France was in no worse shape in May of 1940 than it had been in a similar moment in 1914.
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" De Gaulle also gave expression to a fundamental difference between England and the continent: "England in effect is insular, she is maritime, she is linked through her interactions, her markets and her supply lines to the most diverse and often the most distant countries; she pursues essentially industrial and commercial activities, and only slight agricultural ones.
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A senior U.S. State Department official said Kerry would seek to set an encouraging tone in Laos by discussing increased U.S. aid, including more funds for work to dispose of unexploded U.S. ordnance left over from the Vietnam War, when Laos became one of history's most heavily bombed countries, as the United States tried to destroy communist supply lines running through it.
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Harriet Tubman is rightly famous for how boldly she faced those risks: first when she fled slavery herself; then during the roughly twenty return trips she made to the South to help bring others to freedom; and, finally, during the war, when she accompanied Union forces into the Carolinas, where they disrupted supply lines and, under her direction, liberated some seven hundred and fifty slaves.
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From having killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011, who was hiding in plain sight in the military garrison town of Abbottabad, to the downing of a NATO helicopter on the Afghanistan-Pakistani border the following November that resulted in Pakistan shutting down NATO supply lines into Afghanistan, the U.S.-Pakistan relationship was, and continues to be, blanketed with suspicion and mistrust — and for good reason.
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