Also in the Twin Cities area, the local chapter of the Alliance Française has hosted an annual event for years at varying locations with a competition for the " Best Baguette of the Twin Cities.

:* New York City has numerous Bastille Day celebrations each July, including Bastille Day on 60th Street hosted by the French Institute Alliance Française between Fifth and Lexington Avenues on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Bastille Day on Smith Street in Brooklyn, and Bastille Day in Tribeca.

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With the end of the Cold War, however, Denmark has been supportive of U. S. policy objectives in the Alliance.

In power, he has made alliances with fellow Latin American socialists, namely Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, and signed Nicaragua up to the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas.

El Salvador has joined its six Central American neighbors in signing the Alliance for Sustainable Development, known as the Conjunta Centroamerica-USA or CONCAUSA to promote sustainable economic development in the region.

Fianna Fáil joined the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party on 16 April 2009, and has sat in its associated Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group in the European Parliament since the 2009 European elections.

In the distant future, Mankind has colonized space ( with clusters of space colonies at each of the five Earth-Moon Lagrange points ), and, down on the Earth, the nations have united as the United Earth Sphere Alliance.

Hezbollah has been one the main parties of March 8 Alliance since March 2005.

He has stood as a Parliamentary candidate in the general elections on several of occasions, most recently in 2005 as an Alliance list-candidate.

However, KHAD has continued to operate after the fall of the Soviet backed government in 1992 and acted as the intelligence arm of the United Front or " Northern Alliance " during the Civil war in Afghanistan ( 1996 – 2001 ).

The ruling party since then has always been the Alliance Party () coalition and subsequently from 1973 onwards, its successor the Barisan Nasional ( National Front ) coalition.

Malaysia's predominant political party, the United Malays National Organization ( UMNO ), has held power in coalition known as the Barisan Nasional ( formerly the Alliance ) with other parties since Malaya's independence in 1957.

Internet connectivity, very low by developed world standards, has been the focus of decentralised commune based development projects since the year 2000, while the government participates in the UN's Global Alliance for ICT and Development and the Connect Africa projects to further computer and internet availability in the country.

The party is a member of the European Free Alliance and has close links with Plaid Cymru, the Scottish National Party and the Breton Democratic Union.

" Mebyon Kernow is a member of the European Free Alliance and although it did not contest European Parliament elections in 2004 or 1999, it has six candidates for the 2009 Euro elections.

The OSGi Alliance has a compliance program that is open to members only.

The party has taken part in numerous Maharashtra state governments at several times and was a coalition partner in the National Democratic Alliance cabinet that ruled India between 1998-2004.

Slovenia has been an active participant in Partnership for Peace ( PfP ) and has sought to demonstrate its preparedness to take on the responsibilities and burdens of membership in the Alliance.

* In Canada, the term " Red-Green Alliance " has been used to describe the limited co-operation between the centrist Liberal Party of Canada which uses red as its colour, and the Green Party of Canada,

Since its foundation in 1980 and merger with Alliance 90 after the German reunification, Kelly's party, now named Alliance ' 90 / The Greens, has become one of Europe's most important Green parties.

It has a long standing alliance with the European Free Alliance ( EFA ), an alliance of " stateless nations ", such as the Welsh nationalist Plaid Cymru and Scottish National Party.

Since Alliance Access is not yet capable of creating MX messages, Alliance Messenger ( SAM ) has to be used for this purpose.

`` They are determined '', Montgomery writes, `` not to be surprised again, and now insist on a state of readiness for war which is not only unnecessary, but also creates nervousness among other nations in the Western Alliance -- not to mention such great suspicions among the nations of the Eastern bloc that any progress towards peaceful coexistence or disarmament is not possible ''.

Following the rise of the Taliban in 1996, Massoud, who rejected the Taliban's fundamentalist interpretation of Islam, returned to the armed opposition, serving as the military and political leader of the United Islamic Front ( also known in the West as Northern Alliance ).

The founder of the movement was a former Christian and Missionary Alliance pastor, David Brandt Berg ( 1919 – 1994 ), also known within the group as Moses David, Mo, Father David, and Dad to adult group members, and eventually as Grandpa to the group's youngest members.

After the election the New-Flemish Alliance ( N-VA ) also joined the EFA.

William was also stadtholder of the main provinces of the Dutch Republic, then in the preliminary stages of joining the War of the Grand Alliance against France, in a context of international tensions caused by the revocation by Louis XIV of the Edict of Nantes and the disputed succession of Cologne and the Electorate of the Palatinate.

Honduras also joined its six Central American neighbors at the 1994 Summit of the Americas in signing the Alliance for Sustainable Development, known as the Conjunta Centroamerica-USA, or CONCAUSA, to promote sustainable economic development in the region.

In 1560 Marie de Guise died, and soon after the Auld Alliance also died, with the signing of the Treaty of Edinburgh, which provided for the removal of French and English troops from Scotland.

He also established a Latin rap supergroup called Latin Alliance, which released their only album, Latin Alliance, in 1991.

Airline alliances, such as Oneworld and the Star Alliance, have also been described as keiretsu.

National and regional trade unions organizing in specific industry sectors or occupational groups also form global union federations, such as Union Network International, the International Transport Workers Federation, the International Federation of Journalists or the International Arts and Entertainment Alliance.

As many as 2, 000 Taliban fighters who surrendered were reportedly massacred by the Northern Alliance after the battle, and reports also place U. S. ground troops at the scene of the massacre.

It is also known as the Nazi – Soviet Pact, Hitler – Stalin Pact, German – Soviet Non-aggression Pact and sometimes the Nazi – Soviet Alliance.

Originating from the Pagan Community Projects in Queensland in 2005, the Pagan Alliance Network ( PAN ) also ran a comprehensive PAGANDash program prior to the 2011 census in Australia.

He also negotiated the Triple Alliance in 1882 with Austria-Hungary and Italy ; this was a completely different Alliance to the Dual Alliance.

Some groups also sprang up including the National Union for Liberation led by John Osmena and Diosdado Macapagal, the Mindanao Alliance, the Muslim Federal Party, the Pusyon Bisaya, and the Young Philippines.

Other organizations of Presbyterians, such as the Confessing Movement and the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, have also organized on the other side of the issue to support maintaining the current standards of ordination.

* Paraguayan War, also known as the War of the Triple Alliance ( 1864 – 1870 ), a major war in South America

In addition to its own slate, the NLP also endorsed candidates in other races, including Republicans and New Alliance Party members.

Solar-thermal monoprop thrusters are also integral to the design of a next-generation cryogenic upper stage rocket proposed by U. S. company United Launch Alliance ( ULA ).

* The Aztec Triple Alliance ( also known as The Aztec Empire ) forms with the alliance of three Aztec city-states — Tenochtitlán, Texcoco, and Tlacopán — and defeats Azcapotzalco to win control of the Valley of Mexico.

# " Quadruple Alliance " was also used as an alternative term for the Central Powers of World War I, it consisting of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria.

Antilles, also called the " greatest ace " pilot in the Rebel Alliance, also appears in the Star Wars Expanded Universe and is the lead character in most of the X-wing novels.