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It was one thing for people in colonies ruled by governments thousands of miles away and deprived of many of their rights to opt for independence in the wake of World War II.
One of the first attacks struck Guglielmo Marconi’s demonstration of radio transmission in 1903, when he communicated from Cornwall to London, 300 miles away.
Dokdo is situated midway between the Korean peninsula and Japan’s main island, roughly 115 nautical miles from each.
In fact, while ISIS’s short-term prospects are certainly linked to Raqqa’s fate, its long-term survival and influence will likely be decided thousands of miles away.
We are separated by just 20 miles (33 kilometers) of water – these days, apparently a very wide 20 miles – at the Strait of Dover.
Also tellingly, the accused member of the hated religious minority was jailed for life and condemned to a method of punishment – solitary confinement on an island 3,000 miles away – that was invented just for him after his conviction.
They were left to walk for miles and days to safety.
As Brezhnev put it, the BAM was “the construction project of the century,” pushing, cutting, and tunneling its way through thousands of miles of rivers, forests, and cliffs usually covered in permafrost.
To stay in school after completing the eighth grade seven years ago, Gul would have had to commute over six miles each way.
Moreover, in April, President Xi Jinping announced the formation of the Xiongan New Area, about 50 miles south of Beijing, which will serve as a venue for experimentation with policies that enable innovative start-ups to replace obsolete smokestack industries.
The contamination of roughly half of the world’s fresh water supply, the disappearance of more than 1.4 million square miles (2.3 million square kilometers) of forests since 2000, solid waste mismanagement, and widespread species loss, habitat destruction, and overfishing are destroying the very resources we need to survive.
The Transatlantic RupturePARIS – The national park of Thingvellir, 30 miles east of Reykjavik, is Iceland’s most important historical site.
The climate now feels more like that of Santa Barbara, 300 miles to the south.
Essentially, the climate will creep north about three miles each year.
Lessons from a Divided IslandCAMBRIDGE: Seven hundred miles off Florida’s coast lies one of the most impoverished places on earth.
With Havana a mere 90 miles from the Florida Keys, American meddling in Cuba has been incessant.
The latest-model Japanese bullet train, the Hayabusa, which made its debut only a week before the earthquake, can operate at 320 kilometers (200 miles) per hour – and now does, following quick repairs to its line.
In India, the Global March Against Child Labor has mobilized hundreds of thousands of young people, who have walked millions of miles demanding an end to child labor and the right to go to school.
In January, 40 million children and adults in India protested against child marriage by forming a human chain stretching more than 8,000 miles, woven through village after village in Bihar state.
Though still roughly 1,000 miles from the US border, Trump portrayed the refugees as an imminent national security threat, warning, without evidence, that “Middle Easterners” were among them.
The average North American meal now travels 2,400 kilometers (1,491 miles) from field to plate.
For example, as you travel on the London Underground just six miles (or 14 stops) east from the heart of government at Westminster to Canning Town, the life expectancy of the inhabitants at each successive stop falls by six months.
Moreover, according to the Convention on the Law of the Sea, countries’ enjoy absolute sovereignty in the first 12 nautical miles (about 20 kilometers) of their coastal waters sea, and almost absolute sovereignty, limited by a few conventions, within 200 nautical miles (360 kilometers) of their coasts.
Any country that can prove that the seabed beyond 200 nautical miles is an extension of the continental shelf on which it is sovereign can claim sovereignty over it as well.
So connected are these Africans that their forms can be reviewed - as they fill them in - by an American supervisor 8,000 miles away.
Indeed, other runners are out of sight, perhaps miles ahead.
Complementary investment in high-speed inter-city transport has reduced travel times between Japan’s two largest agglomerations, Tokyo and Osaka, which are 314 miles apart, to less than two and a half hours, thus integrating labor and housing markets and enhancing productivity.
The Noor-1 project, covering an area of more than 4.5 square kilometers (1.7 square miles) with 500,000 curved mirrors – some as high as 12 meters – cost around $700 million.
For example, the planned Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, a project with Japanese collaboration entailing more than $90 billion in investment, will link Delhi to Mumbai’s ports, covering an overall length of 1,483 kilometers (921 miles) and passing through six states.
Indian Ocean UnityNEW DELHI – What international association brings together 18 countries straddling three continents thousands of miles apart, united solely by their sharing of a common body of water?
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