Countries can vary the shape of their stamps to indicate the length of stay, like Singapore where a perfectly rectangular stamp indicates a 14-day stay, rounded rectangular a 30-day stay, or hexagonal a 90-day stay.

Countries vary widely in whether religious education is allowed in government-run schools ( often called " public schools ").

Countries vary in their acceptance of pilot licenses from other countries to fly aircraft registered in the home country.

Countries vary significantly in terms of the degree, and the pace, of these changes, and the UN expects populations that began ageing later to have less time to adapt to the many implications of these changes.

In 2004 the Right to Food Guidelines are adopted, offering guidance to states on how to implement their obligations on the right to food .< ref > Olivier de Schutter ( 2010 ) " Countries tackling hunger with a right to food approach.

Countries are increasingly recognizing how severely IC / PBS can affect patients ' lives, by officially recognizing that it can completely impair functioning.

René instead emphasizes he is reporting on ancient tournament customs of France, Germany and the Low Countries, combining them in a new suggestion on how to hold a tournament.

Countries were also placed into the First World based on how civilized the country was.

Countries must carefully consider how to balance this in future conflicts for the sake of their sovereignty and their standard of living.

René instead emphasizes he is reporting on ancient tournament customs of France, Germany and the Low Countries, combining them in a new suggestion on how to hold a tournament.

Countries with mandatory school uniforms include Japan, South Korea, Thailand, India, Australia, U. A. E, Singapore, some schools in China, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, among as many other places.

Countries which prohibit school prayer often differ in their reasons for doing so: In the United States, school prayer is proscribed in accordance with Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution ( which provides the foundation for the separation of church and state ).

Countries that allow school and / or state-sponsored prayer include Greece, Iran, Australia, Italy and the United Kingdom.

In India, Pakistan and other South Asian Countries, grade seven is called Class Seven and forms middle school.

After some military service in the Low Countries he made shift, says Anthony Wood, to be set on shore in the western part of England ; where, after some wandering to and fro under the name of Thomas Bainrafe, the anagram of his surname, he settled at Martock, in Somersetshire, and taught the grammar school there for some time with success.

Here the phrase is also a play on words, since the University itself is a major seat of learning, i. e. school, in the Low Countries ).

Countries such as India and Pakistan are seeing a large increase of thalassemia patients due to lack of genetic counseling and screening.

In September 2009, Haiti met the conditions set out by the IMF and World Bank's Heavily Indebted Poor Countries program, qualifying it for cancellation of some of its external debt.

Under the IMF's Highly Indebted Poor Countries debt relief program, Senegal will benefit from eradication of two-thirds of its bilateral, multilateral, and private sector debt, contingent on the completion of privatization program proposed by the government and approved by the IMF.

With an external debt of U. S .$ 2, 495 million, and with its economic reform program on track, Senegal qualified for the multilateral debt relief initiative for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries ( HIPC ).

Countries opposed to whaling have passed non-binding resolutions in the IWC urging Japan to stop the program.

* Doussie technological characteristics, Tropix program, CIRAD Agricultural Research for Development Countries

The College is in large parts funded by the government of Norway and is further supported by the other Nordic Countries and by private sponsors who have supported the building program.

A national donation program was started and there was a large amount of international aid, so much in fact that the Red Cross was overwhelmed and decided to send parts of it to Third World Countries.

As the IMF's resident representative in Cameroon, he supervised the successful implementation of the central African nation's ambitious economic reform program initiated in 1996, allowing Cameroon to reach the Decision Point under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative ( HIPC ).

Countries that have a more established debating and public speaking program often use qualifying competitions, this is the method currently used by Canada, the United States, Australia, Hong Kong, and South Africa.

Countries participating in the program pay for defense articles and services at prices which recoup costs incurred by the United States.

In addition, the university, through its Master of Arts in Democratic Governance and Civil Society graduate program, is also part of the highly-prestigious DAAD Public Policy and Good Governance Scholarships for Developing Countries, along with other reputable institutions in political science and public policy such as the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy in Erfurt.

The United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States ( UN OHRLLS ) coordinates UN support and provides advocacy services for Least Developed Countries.

Countries that do not share a supra-national authority have also begun examining the provision of international roaming services.

Countries around the world use different area codes to denote toll-free services in their own networks.

MPs from Italy and from the European Parliament are set to ask the Moroccan Royal Cabinet to grant a pardon to the Italian citizen According to the European Parliament Temporary Committee on the Alleged Use of European Countries by the CIA for the Transport and the Illegal Detention of Prisoners headed by rapporteur Giovanni Claudio Fava, documents demonstrated that " the Italian judicial authorities and the Italian Ministry for Home Affairs ( the latter, acting on behalf of the Direzione Centrale della Polizia di Prevenzione cited in connection with the investigation by the Divisione Investigazioni Generali ed Operazioni Speciali ) cooperated constantly with foreign secret services and were well aware of all Britel's movements and whatever unlawful treatments he received, from the time of his initial arrest in Pakistan.

Cathay Pacific serves 60 destinations including cargo services, in 29 Countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and Oceania.

Countries which protect men who have sex with men have double the rate of coverage of HIV prevention services — as much as 60 %.

Countries with a net deficit in business services include Indonesia, Germany and Ireland.

RIPE NCC services are available to users outside this region through Local Internet Registries ; these entities must have a valid legal address inside the service region but can offer their services to anyone ( List of Member Countries ).

Both are members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, the African Union and other multilateral organizations.

Conversely the use of true brass seems to have declined in Western Europe during this period in favour of gunmetals and other mixed alloys but by the end of the first Millennium AD brass artefacts are found in Scandinavian graves in Scotland, brass was being used in the manufacture of coins in Northumbria and there is archaeological and historical evidence for the production of brass in Germany and The Low Countries areas rich in calamine ore which would remain important centres of brass making throughout the medieval period, especially Dinant – brass objects are still collectively known as dinanterie in French.

Older editions of the CIA World Factbook, going back to 1989, country rankings constructed from CIA data, and additional country information from other sources are available at the Countries of the World website, which was begun in 1996.

Countries marked in dark colors are authoritarian, and most often dictatorships.

Countries that are more red are authoritarian, and most often dictatorships.

Countries choose this kind of economic integration if their economical structures are complementary.

Excavations are currently underway, and if the so far presented estimates hold true, the site would be the only pre-glacial ( Neanderthal ) site so far discovered in the Nordic Countries, and it is approximately 125, 000 years old.

Countries within the EU are required to adopt the directive in national legislation by early 2013.

The IMU's members are Member Countries and each Member country is represented through an Adhering Organization, which may be its principal academy, a mathematical society, its research council or some other institution or association of institutions, or an appropriate agency of its government.

The Commission for Developing Countries supports research travel of mathematicians based in developing countries as well as mathematics research conferences in the developing world through its Grants Program which is open to mathematicians throughout the developing world, including countries that are not ( yet ) members of the IMU.

Countries are required to update their AIP manuals every 28 days and so provide definitive regulations, procedures and information for each country about airspace and aerodromes.

Countries pictured ( clockwise from upper left ) are Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt ( across the Gulf of Aqabah ), Israel, and the disputed West Bank, with Jordan in the center.

In common use are such terms as Lusophone, meaning Portuguese-speaking, and Lusitanic, referring to the Community of Portuguese Language Countries — once Portugal's colonies and presently independent countries still sharing some common heritage.

Countries are forced to follow suit, on this view, because should they not foreign investment will dry up, move places with lower " burdens " and leave more people jobless and poor.

* They are both members of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries.

Countries seen as not being sufficiently compliant with such recommendations are subjected to financial sanctions.

Countries with a minority Muslim population are more likely than Muslim-majority countries of the Greater Middle East to use mosques as a way to promote civic participation.

Some micro-nationalists call their countries Nomadic Countries, especially ones that have no land and are based on the Internet.

Both are members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, the African Union and other multilateral organizations.

Countries with a coastline on the Persian Gulf are ( clockwise, from the north ): Iran, Oman ( exclave of Musandam ), United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar on a peninsula off the Saudi coast, Bahrain on an island, Kuwait and Iraq in the northwest.

Countries such as Belgium and Switzerland that often use charitable fund-raising design stamps that are desirable for collectors.