It sits in the far northwest of the Northern Province near the town of Chipembe.
Concerns centered on an attack Tuesday in Khan al-Asal, in the northern province of Aleppo.
In January, German forces handed over security of the northern province of Badakhshan to Afghan control.
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In 1997, Vietnam experienced widespread peasant unrest in the northern province of Thai Binh.
But the rebels in question, who hail from Tigray, a northern province, have run Ethiopia since 1991.
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In a separate development on Saturday, there have been reports of fierce fighting in the northern province of Faryab.
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Syria claimed rebels used chemical weapons in an attack Tuesday in Khan al-Asal in the northern province of Aleppo.
Greece believes that the very name Macedonia implies a territorial claim to its own northern province of the same name.
White South African farmers have been granted long leases on wide tracts of the sparsely populated northern province of Niassa.
Meanwhile, Iraq's autonomous northern province of Kurdistan has signed dozens of oil contracts with foreign companies, outside central government control.
If all that history gets to be a bit much, there is also plenty of water-based fun to be had in the Northern Province.
Another two Marines and three civilians also were wounded in the attack, which occurred in Baaj, in the northern province of Nineveh, the military said.
Sri Lanka's northern province is currently ruled directly from Colombo.
Argentina's northern province of Misiones, named for the settlements established during Spanish colonial times by the Catholic Church's Jesuit order, juts like a finger far into Brazil and Paraguay.
Thus the Dy family, which dominates the northern province of Isabela, has members in the camps both of Mr Estrada and of Mrs Arroyo, despite their bitter political rivalry.
Perhaps sensitive to the tenor of conversation online, China's Ministry of Finance announced on Sunday that the central government had allocated 120 million yuan to help Beijing, the coastal city of Tianjin and the northern province of Hebei fight floods, Xinhua reported.
Some 1, 000km from the artsy capital Lusaka is the Moto Moto museum, remarkable for its incongruous location at the tip of the Northern Province in the dusty town of Mbala, from where the road tumbles down to Tanzania and the Great Rift Valley.
Born in the northern province of Chernihiv on the border with Russia, he spent much of his career as a missile engineer, at the missile range at Baikonur in Kazakhstan and the top-secret Pivdenie missile factory near Dnipropetrovsk, where he eventually became general director.
South Africa's counter-terrorism forces arrested them earlier this week in the northern Limpopo province.
Naledi Ntepang hauls passengers around Kuruman in the Northern Cape province and to Johannesburg once a week.
He dismissed several security officials and the governor of northern Sinai province in the wake of the attack.
Also last month, four Afghan policemen were jailed for 16 years for raping a young woman in northern Kunduz province this year.
The hostages were taken in the south of the northern Bolivar province.
He Biao, the director of the Aba Disaster Relief headquarters in northern Sichuan province, said officials are concerned about dams close to the epicenter.
The worst affected city was Shijiazhuang, capital of northern Hebei province.
The body of Hang Serei Oudom was found on 11 September in the boot of his car at a cashew nut plantation in the northern Ratanakiri province.
On Tuesday, police arrested 40 striking workers who had seized equipment worth millions of dollars at Anglo American's Kumba Iron Ore mine in the Northern Cape province.
In August 2010, the Afghan authorities released a video showing a couple being stoned to death in Northern Kunduz province after a Taliban court found them guilty of adultery.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Gunmen in a northern Iraq province have been given 10 days to turn in their weapons to avoid jail time and get a monetary reward.
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