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  • Italy Premier: Suspend Soccer In Country 2-3 Years

    boston.com 1 hour, 15 minutes ago

    Premier Mario Monti suggested Tuesday that Italian soccer be suspended for two to three years after the latest match-fixing scandal rocked the national team and again tarnished the sport's image in the country just a week before the European Championship.

  • A Smoke-Free Country? NZ Taxes Aim For It - TIME

    google.com 1 hour, 53 minutes ago

    Independent Online A Smoke-Free Country? NZ Taxes Aim for It TIME By AP / NICK PERRY Friday, May 25, 2012 (WELLINGTON, New Zealand) , There are smoke-free bars, smoke-free parks, even smoke-free college campuses. But a smoke-free country? New Zealand's government on Thursday squeezed smokers more than ever by ... States' Tobacco Spend Falls in Ashtray Ahead of 'World No Tobacco Day,' a call to rekindle Adventist anti-smoking efforts Smoking prevention efforts get short shrift, CDC says -

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A country is a region legally identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent or differently associated peoples with distinct political characteristics. Regardless of the physical geography, in the modern internationally accepted legal definition as defined by the League of Nations in 1937 and reaffirmed by the United Nations in 1945, a resident of a country is subject to the independent exercise of legal jurisdiction.
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