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  • We passed the hungry pigpen and started climbing the steep dirt road that hugs the side of the far-west hill.

    Hike to Cuastecomate, Jalisco 2007

  • Last month, the force played a prominent role in quelling riots in Xinjiang, the far-west region where Muslim Uighurs clashed with Han Chinese, killing at least 197 people.

    Beijing Widens Paramilitary Police Role 2009

  • We passed the hungry pigpen and started climbing the steep dirt road that hugs the side of the far-west hill.

    Hike to Cuastecomate, Jalisco 2007

  • Stretching from west to east along the sweeping Bahia de Navidad, the town consists of three separate ejidos. (rural land cooperatives) These divide into Melaque at the far-west end, San Patricio in the commercial center and more residential Villa Obregon to the east, bordering upon the Laguna Tule.

    Walking the walk, talking the talk - a wee malarkey about Melaque, 2007

  • Stretching from west to east along the sweeping Bahia de Navidad, the town consists of three separate ejidos. (rural land cooperatives) These divide into Melaque at the far-west end, San Patricio in the commercial center and more residential Villa Obregon to the east, bordering upon the Laguna Tule.

    Walking the walk, talking the talk - a wee malarkey about Melaque, 2007

  • As the Games entered its fourth day, knife-wielding assailants attacked a road checkpoint in China's troubled far-west Tuesday, killing three and taking the death toll to more than 30 from a surge in violence that has coincided with the Beijing Olympics.

    Today's WSJ in Photos: Aug. 12, 2008 2008

  • The shaded far-west end is a snow-covered shelf where the Canadian Honkers perch, while others swim and feed in the water.

    Archive 2003-11-16 Michael Evans 2003

  • The shaded far-west end is a snow-covered shelf where the Canadian Honkers perch, while others swim and feed in the water.

    View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2003

  • Mr Wu, an American citizen, was detained on 19 June at a border post in the far-west Chinese region of Xinjiang.

    Detention of Human Rights Advocate 1995

  • The cost varied from one part of Canada to another, tending (as is often the case), to be highest in the far-west and the east, and lowest in the central regions.

    Why Not? 1975

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