But the Hebron oil field is believed to extend southward into U.S. waters with its billion-barrel potential.
As the rebels moved southward toward Bamako, such reports prompted an international response, led by the French.
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At the beginning of this year, Abou Zeid joined other Islamist forces making a push southward toward the capital Bamako.
The BJP had pointed to success in Tamil Nadu's neighbour Karnataka in 2008 as evidence that it could branch out southward.
But the southward advance of the rebel and Islamist forces and the precipitate collapse of the Malian army changed all this.
They not only introduced alien customs and Sanskrit, but also drove most of the north's original and largely docile tribal inhabitants southward.
The rain could lead to secondary crests and higher crests along the Mississippi from Memphis, Tennessee, southward, CNN meteorologist Sean Morris said.
Three Cumbria County councillors, David Southward, Frank Morgan and Wendy Skillicorn, called-in the decision, meaning the cabinet wished to examine the original rejection.
Police tried to stop them at several points, waylaying some of the cars and arresting several leaders, but the convoy continued southward, Qureshi said by phone.
When the extremists began advancing southward in early 2013, Hollande unilaterally authorized a military intervention which quickly pushed the Islamic extremists from the main cities in Mali's north.
In May, Enbridge, a Canadian company, reversed the flow of a big North American oil pipeline, sending a glut of oil from America's northern plains southward to coastal refineries.
Within a few days, services swing round the brilliant blue waters of Lake Baikal, before plunging southward into the gently sloping grasslands of the Mongolian steppe, dotted with yurts and grazing horses.
The disease has spread from eastern China both northward and southward, leading to the closure of a growing number of markets where live chicken is sold as a preventative measure.
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Laura Hipp, spokeswoman Barbour's office, confirmed that a house owned by the governor in his native Yazoo County was flooded by the watery onslaught moving southward down the Mississippi River.
The Islamists' movement southward has raised concerns among leaders in West Africa and elsewhere, some of them calling for swift and decisive military intervention to aid Mali's government, based in Bamako.
On my first trip to Morocco, in the early '70s, after renting a car in Tangiers, we drove southward hundreds of miles through Fez, over the Atlas Mountains and eventually deep into the Sahara.
And the Islamists' movement southward has raised concerns among leaders in West Africa and elsewhere, some of them calling for swift and decisive military intervention in support of Mali's government, based in Bamako.
The administration has stepped up security co-operation with Mexico, deploying drones and American agents south of the border and allowing Mexican police to use American territory as a launch pad for surprise raids southward.
For instance, Miami is the hub for flights to most destinations in South America and the Caribbean, meaning that a majority of Americans flying southward internationally pass through Miami's airport instead of, say, either Houston or Atlanta.
Fleming said the decision to open the spillway, along with similar decisions made in recent weeks as the floodwaters moved southward, was done to address a historic excess of water in the Mississippi River and its tributaries.
"The Secretary-General welcomes that bilateral partners are responding, at the request and with the consent of the government of Mali, to its call for assistance to counter the troubling push southward by armed and terrorist groups, " his office said in a statement.
In addition to creating the sill, officials are planning to take 2.5 million gallons of fresh water from farther north in the river -- past mile marker 100 -- then carry it by barge southward "and suck it into our water treatment facilities, " Laigast said.
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