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Vladivostok (/ ˌ v l æ d ɪ ˈ v ɒ s t ɒ k / VLAD-iv-OST-ok; Russian: Владивосток, IPA: [vlədʲɪvɐˈstok] ⓘ) is the largest city and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai and the capital of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia, located in the far east of Russia.
Detroit (/ d ɪ ˈ t r ɔɪ t /, dih-TROYT; locally also / ˈ d iː t r ɔɪ t /, DEE-troyt) [8] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan.It is the largest U.S. city on the Canadian border and the county seat of Wayne County.
This is a list of Ig Nobel Prize winners from 1991 to the present day. [1]A parody of the Nobel Prizes, the Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded each year in mid-September, around the time the recipients of the genuine Nobel Prizes are announced, for ten achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think".
In 2012, the Djiboutian government in collaboration with DP World started construction of the Doraleh Container Terminal, [157] a third major seaport intended to further develop the national transit capacity. [1] A $396 million project, it has the capacity to accommodate 1.5 million twenty foot container units annually. [157]
Since January 2018, when persons utilizing the 144-hour visa-free transit who failed to register with the local PSBs will be banned from using visa-free transit for a period of 2 years from the day the offence was recorded. [7]
The Liberian National Police is the country's national police force. As of October 2007 it has 844 officers in 33 stations in Montserrado County, which contains Monrovia. [113] The National Police Training Academy is in Paynesville City. [114] A history of corruption among police officers diminishes public trust and operational effectiveness.
In 2010–12, shipping companies, especially from Ukraine, claimed that their vessels suffered from "regular pirate attacks" on the Serbian and the Romanian stretches of the Danube. [ 47 ] [ 48 ] [ 49 ] However, the transgressions may not be considered acts of piracy, as defined according to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea ...