Coast
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And with a European border patrol and
coast
guard, Europeans would be far less reliant on Turkey, Russia, and others when it comes to managing migration flows.
Today, an arc of crisis stretches from Somalia on the Indian Ocean across the African Sahel to the Atlantic
coast.
Drug barons and local warlords control increasingly large swaths of territory from Guinea on the Atlantic
coast
through Senegal to Mali, Niger, and beyond.
Last November, Italy suspended its Mare Nostrum rescue operation (which it launched in 2013, after more than 300 migrants drowned off the
coast
of the Italian island of Lampedusa), because other EU member states refused to share the costs – some €9 million ($10.6 million) a month.
Beijing will overshadow New York, the renminbi will replace the dollar, Mandarin will take over from English, and schoolchildren around the world will learn about Zheng He’s voyages of discovery along the Eastern
coast
of Africa rather than about Vasco de Gama or Christopher Columbus.
Indeed, despite President Barack Obama’s apparent desire to end the pointless diplomatic freeze, some right-wing US politicians would, it seems, prefer a pariah to a potential partner off Florida’s
coast.
Warm water off the
coast
of South America leads to torrential rainfall in Ecuador and Peru, and at the same time, drought in Southeast Asia.
The project, located on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, is now under construction.
Yet, despite this spending shortfall, Putin seems obsessed with making pointless and provocative gestures, such as resuming long-range nuclear bomber flights off the American
coast.
During the war in Kuwait, the Iraqis pumped massive amounts of oil into the Persian Gulf, resulting in the world's largest-ever oil spill--some fifty times the amount released from the tanker "Prestige" off the Spanish
coast
last fall.
But the rains that inundated the Texas
coast
for the better part of a week, and the hurricane that is about to hit South Florida, also raise deep questions about the United States’ economic system and politics.
As part of the so-called “string of pearls” strategy, China is seeking to encircle South Asia by building a network of naval bases stretching across the Indian Ocean from Hong Kong to the
coast
of Yemen.
In November, the first ever India-China joint naval exercises were held off the Chinese
coast.
The new prime minister will be Narendra Modi of the conservative Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who presided over rapid economic growth in his 13 years as Chief Minister of the state of Gujarat, on India’s northwest
coast.
Instead, Taylor is housed in a villa on the sandy beaches of Calabar on Nigeria’s southeastern coast, as key international players – including France, the United Kingdom,and South Africa – remain silent.
The German navy is defending the Lebanese
coast
against Hezbollah, while other European nations bear the brunt of policing Lebanon on the ground.
Then there are the usual crimes of oligarchy, such as the illegal enclosure of the
coast
around seaside villas for the purpose of privatizing the beach.
If an “ice plug” near the
coast
of Wilkes Basin melts or breaks off into icebergs, the basin’s huge quantities of water will drain into the ocean.
Scientists recently discovered that the red-necked phalarope starts its migration from Scotland’s Shetland Islands, crosses the Atlantic via Iceland and Greenland, flies south along the United States’ eastern seaboard to the Caribbean and Mexico, and ends its journey off the
coast
of Ecuador or Peru.
That almost automatic reaction was reminiscent of the 1980’s, when America woke up to find Japanese companies like Sony buying Columbia Pictures, Mitsubishi Estates buying Rockefeller Center, and even the famous Pebble Beach golf course on the California
coast
being snapped up by Japanese investors.
On the other hand, the once fabled northeast and northwest passages will reduce shipping times and costs by as much as half, bringing China and Japan much closer to Europe and North America’s east
coast.
In the wake of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 and the subsequent US drilling embargo, the approval of Shell’s drilling operations off the Alaskan
coast
received considerable media attention.
Meles will be sorely missed in Hargeisa, as he planned to run a Chinese-financed gas pipeline through Somaliland territory from the Ogaden to the
coast.
Even if Cyprus were to come up empty in the 11 unexplored blocks off its southern coast, the Aphrodite field contains more than enough energy reserves to cover the country’s short-term indebtedness.
Should they focus on a North Korean regime that is as volatile as ever, and that recently launched a ballistic missile toward the sea off its eastern
coast?
Assets have been deployed off the
coast
of Spain, while others are under construction in Romania and will soon be introduced in Poland.
As 60 others scrambled to escape, the human traffickers carrying them to Europe stabbed them and threw them into the sea off the
coast
of Lampedusa.
More recently, some 500 migrants died off the
coast
of Malta, when a group of human traffickers responded to the passengers’ refusal to move onto smaller vessels by deliberately ramming the boat that had carried them from Egypt.
Less than a week later, dozens of asylum-seekers perished when their boat capsized near the Libyan
coast.
Their tragic deaths have done nothing to slow the human tide, which is swelling by the week, as smugglers on the
coast
become increasingly brazen and cruel.
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