Only 700 years ago, Europe's knowledge of the planet extended no farther than Ptolemy's in Roman times: just into northern Africa and western Asia.
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Despite the small number of genes which made it through, the Neanderthals did go extinct in Europe, western Asia and Siberia - for reasons which remain unclear.
After the war, the British and French refused to give up their colonies without a fight, and the Soviet Union fueled a Cold War by attempting to restore, and build upon, the older czarist empire in eastern Europe and southern and western Asia.
According to the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (2006), Bahrain is one of the fastest growing economies in the Arab World due to the growth of its oil industries (which accounts for 30 per cent of the GDP and 60 per cent of export receipts) and the financial (banking), construction and tourism sectors.
Western Europe, Asia, and the Middle East are looking like have-nots for many things.
Instead, Western Europe and Asia (excluding China) were the most popular areas for expansion.
The current energy transition presents an immediate threat to the U.S. and its allies in Western Europe and Asia.
Traditionally, says Jan McMillen, a gaming-industry expert at the University of Western Australia, Asia has either prohibited betting, or doled out exclusive privileges to well-connected crony capitalists.
Last year Terry Ellis, the co-founder of the Chrysalis label, started Tiger Star mainly to launch overlooked western artists in Asia in the hope of eventually bringing them back in glory.
The opera is in three acts and is loosely based on the historic conflict between Bajazet, a Turkish sultan, and the Tartar conqueror Timur, or Tamerlano, who ruled much of western and central Asia in the 14th century.
Despite the hot smartphone growth in Asia, Western Europe vs.
According to her account, sex-selection technologies were invented in the West, adopted there as a population-control measure and exported to East Asia by Western aid donors and American military officials.
Sailing along the coast of Siberia by the north-east passage, or Northern Sea Route (NSR), as Russians and mariners call it, cuts the distance between western Europe and east Asia by roughly a third.
For starters, the president should use this occasion to make clear to the American people that the PRC is acting in an increasingly belligerent manner not only toward U.S. military vessels, aircraft, and personnel, but also toward allied democracies in the Western Pacific and East Asia.
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According to this proposal, such mechanisms could be established in Asia, the Western Hemisphere, and Eastern Europe, and be regionally funded.
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For these people, the retreat of Western power--from Asia, from Africa, from South America -- was the natural way of the world.
More than eight million mainly Muslim Uighurs live in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, a vast area of western China that borders Central Asia.
Its mobile devices are among a raft of cheaper, Android-based phones and tablets coming out of Asia to challenge Western stalwarts like Apple and Nokia.
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Drastic measures should be taken, after all, are we not the ones who are crying that we are being sidelined in favour of western Europe and parts of Asia?
Three to five nuclear bombs of any size, launched into space on satellites and detonated above the US, Europe and Asia would send Western civilization back to the 19th century.
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The cable hit in Wednesday's apparent sabotage was the South East Asia Middle East Western Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) - one of the main cables snaking under the Mediterranean, Mena said.
The suspicion lingers that Asia is a Western construct.
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Cheered on by the U.S. and other Western governments, which see Asia's giant as a potentially stabilizing force, China could prove the ultimate winner in Afghanistan having shed no blood and not much aid.
With the additional bandwidth, Cisco expects huge growth in data consumption by 2016, with growth up 3x in North America and Western Europe, 4x in Asia Pacific, 5x in Central and Eastern Europe, 7x in Latin America and 10x in Middle East and Africa.
Coming as such disengagement does - at the very moment that dangers to those interests in regions from the Middle East to North Africa to Central, South and East Asia to the Western hemisphere, the administration must be held accountable for creating (whether intentionally or simply as a practical matter) dangerous vacuums of power.
But for Western markets and later others in Asia, Mateschitz preferred the name Red Bull.
Bank Austria is among the latest Western institutions following corporate clients to Asia.
Many Western firms are more interested in Asia's capital spending than its consumption, and here Asia is undoubtedly the giant.
Despite some signs of government enthusiasm, both the Western hedge funds making inroads in Asia and the native funds sprouting up there face markets that are tricky to navigate.
On the contrary, INSEAD, a leading international business school, reported that graduates were recruited from companies in 64 countries, with 41 percent obtaining employment in Western Europe, 25 percent in Asia, and 9 percent in North America.
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