The asking price for an island in the Irish Sea has been dramatically reduced since it was first put on the market almost two years ago.

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The incident occurred 170 miles southwest of Seoul near Eocheong, an island in the Yellow Sea.

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Ocalan is being held in a Turkish jail on an island in the Marmara Sea.

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The chamber of commerce for the Cyclades, an island group in the Aegean Sea, reported shortages in goods and warned that serious health cases were going untreated and dead bodies were not being transported for burial.

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The Republic of Cyprus is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea.

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China has received offers of help from countries including Japan, with which it is currently embroiled in a territorial dispute over an island grouping in the East China Sea.

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For example, in the island nation of Papua New Guinea, an increase in population growth coupled with rising sea levels is decreasing the amount of crop land making farming very difficult for the indigenous people of the region, according to the U.N.

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Five years later, Chinese military commanders were frustrated when they couldn't locate two carrier groups that the U.S. deployed near Taiwan after China fired missiles into the sea off the island's coast in a failed attempt to influence the outcome of an election there, according to several defense analysts.

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The city itself has become an island of hot pavement in a sea of green.

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So I say to you -- the United States, as Alan Greenspan said the other day, cannot be an island of prosperity in a sea of distress.

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Japan and China are currently involved in a territorial dispute over ownership of an East China Sea island chain, with the row sparking a Chinese boycott of some Japanese goods.

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Israel is an island in a sea of potential commercial opportunities that would be greatly expanded by a deepening of the Arab Spring.

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