The world of Arab music has long been dominated by Cairo, a cultural center, though musical innovation and regional styles abound from Morocco to Saudi Arabia.

The Bahamas is ranked 7th out of 29 countries in the South and Central America / Caribbean region, and its overall score is higher than the regional and world averages.

Brazil's foreign policy reflects its role as a regional power and a potential world power and is designed to help protect the country's national interests, national security, ideological goals, and economic prosperity.

Brazil's foreign policy is a by-product of the country's unique position as a regional power in Latin America, a leader among developing countries, and an emerging world power.

* In 2006, The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem awarded Colin Powell with the Truman Peace Prize for his efforts to conduct the " war against terrorism ," through diplomatic as well as military means, and to avert regional and civil conflicts in many parts of the world.

The city hosts the annual Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival, attracting regional and international jazz, blues, rock, and world artists.

FAO ’ s Global Information and Early Warning System ( GIEWS ) monitors world food supply / demand and provides the international community with prompt information on crop prospects and the food security situation on a global, regional and country-by-country basis.

There are many different regional styles of grappling around the world that are practiced within a limited geographic area or country.

Hong Kong makes strenuous law enforcement efforts, but faces serious challenges in controlling transit of heroin and methamphetamine to regional and world markets ; modern banking system provides a conduit for money laundering ; rising indigenous use of synthetic drugs, especially among young people.

Throughout the world, ecosystems in cooler climates that were previously regional have been isolated in higher altitude ecological " islands ".

The doctrine of human rights in international practice, within international law, global and regional institutions, in the policies of states and in the activities of non-governmental organizations, has been a cornerstone of public policy around the world.

International human rights instruments can be divided further into global instruments, to which any state in the world can be a party, and regional instruments, which are restricted to states in a particular region of the world.

As the music has developed and spread around the world it has drawn on many different national, regional and local musical cultures giving rise, since its early 20th century American beginnings, to many distinctive styles: New Orleans jazz dating from the early 1910s, big band swing, Kansas City jazz and Gypsy jazz from the 1930s and 1940s, bebop from the mid-1940s and on down through West Coast jazz, cool jazz, avant-garde jazz, Afro-Cuban jazz, modal jazz, free jazz, Latin jazz in various forms, soul jazz, jazz fusion and jazz rock, smooth jazz, jazz-funk, punk jazz, acid jazz, ethno jazz, jazz rap, cyber jazz, Indo jazz, M-Base, nu jazz, urban jazz and other ways of playing the music.

The International Kendo Federation ( FIK ) was founded in April 1970, it is an international federation of national and regional kendo federations and the world governing body for kendo.

MTV Networks has launched numerous native-language regional variants of MTV-branded channels to countries around the world.

In different geophysical regions of the world, other regional names are also used for the same or overlapping ages and other timeline subdivisions.

China is served both by numerous major international flights to most countries of the world and a host of domestic regional airlines.

Conventions ( in fandom, shortened as " cons "), are held in cities around the world, catering to a local, regional, national, or international membership.

Today, with a growing regional profile, a participant in the SFOR peacekeeping deployment in Bosnia and the KFOR deployment in Kosovo, and a charter World Trade Organization member, Slovenia plays a role on the world stage quite out of proportion to its small size.

The institute acts as a resource for the UN system, with particular links to the UN bodies dealing with regional integration, and works in partnership with initiatives and centres throughout the world that are concerned with issues of integration and cooperation.

Starting in 1997, W3C created regional offices around the world ; as of September 2009, it has eighteen World Offices covering Australia, the Benelux countries ( Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Belgium ), Brazil, China, Finland, Germany, Austria, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, South Korea, Morocco, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Reynolds ( 2007 ) surveys the relationship between African and world histories, with an emphasis on the tension between the area studies paradigm and the growing world-history emphasis on connections and exchange across regional boundaries.

Barbecue has numerous regional variations in many parts of the world.

' World ' distinguishes the entire planet or population from any particular country or region: world affairs pertain not just to one place but to the whole world, and world history is a field of history that examines events from a global ( rather than a national or a regional ) perspective.

Although it was not legally recognized until 1982, the CGT was originally formed in 1970 by the Christian Democrats and received external support from the World Confederation of Labour ( WCL ) and the Latin American Workers Central ( Central Latinoamericana de Trabajadores — CLAT ), a regional organization supported by Christian Democratic parties.

A new government was formed by the Democrats of the Left leader and former communist Massimo D ' Alema, but in April 2000, following poor performance by his coalition in regional elections, D ' Alema resigned.

The UK, like several other states, has sometimes been called a " two-and-a-half " party system, because parliamentary politics is dominated by the Labour Party and Conservative Party, with the Liberal Democrats holding a significant number of seats ( but still substantially less than Labour and the Conservatives ), and several small parties ( some of them regional or nationalist ) trailing far behind in number of seats.

( The Democratic Party held a two-thirds majority in the 89th Congress of 1965, but regional divisions among Democrats meant that many filibusters were invoked by Southern Democrats against civil rights bills supported by the Northern wing of the party ).

On 19 June 2004 the VLD successfully negotiated a regional coalition government with CD & V and the New Flemish Alliance ( N-VA ), the Christian Democrats and moderate nationalists, and with the social-democratic sp. a-Spirit.

The SLP also received more votes than the Green Party in two of the five regions of Wales and beat the Liberal Democrats in a number of constituencies on each of the regional lists.

Southern Democrats came up with the idea of a regional primary in an effort to nominate a moderate candidate who would more closely represent their interests.

In the regional elections in June 2004, the party formed a strategic alliance with the Flemish Liberals and Democrats ( VLD ).

The United Liberal Democrats, a regional party based on North Chungcheong and South Chungcheong regions, has lost support since its leader, Kim Jong-pil, did not contest the last presidential election.

This privilege is extended to the separate Welsh Conferences, Conferences of English regions and to the Liberal Democrats ' English Council ( the confederal body through which the regional parties of England make joint decisions ).

On 30 June 2011, it was announced that the Christian Democrats had started cooperating with the grassroot party Fælleslisten, a single-issue party fighting for decentralization, especially in health policy, with some success in regional and local elections.

Hamersley has also shown a higher preference than the regional average for progressive minor parties such as the Australian Greens and Australian Democrats.

The campaign has the support of all five Cornish Liberal Democrats MPs, Mebyon Kernow and others ; they stated that the SW regional assembly was undemocratic and unaccountable, and believed Cornwall should be able to take decisions about local services in its own directly elected and accountable assembly.

The Campaign for an English Parliament, the minor English Democrats party, and several Conservative Party MPs, see a devolved English parliament as another alternative to regional assemblies.

With the electoral change to regional party-list proportional representation, he was first elected in the 1999 European Parliament election when the Liberal Democrats won 12 % of the regional vote, and retained his seat in the 2004 and 2009 elections when they won 14 % of the regional vote.

This was proved wrong ; in elections for regional assemblies and Senate elections, the Social Democrats failed again.

Examples of successful European social liberal parties, which have participated in government coalitions at national or regional levels, are the Liberal Democrats in the United Kingdom, D66 in the Netherlands, and the Danish Social Liberal Party in Denmark.

The Christian Democratic Centre ( CCD ) and the United Christian Democrats ( CDU ) formed joint-lists with Forza Italia respectively in 1994 ( general ) and 1995 ( regional ).

The Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats is a regional organization of liberal and democratic political parties in Asia.

The results of 1994 ( general ) refer to the combined result of PPI, Patto Segni and AD, those of 1994 to the combined result of PPI and Pact of Democrats ( joint-list of Patto Segni and AD, including also SI ), those of 1996 ( general and Sicilian regional ) to the combined result of the joint-list of PPI and UD and RI ( whose list comprised Patto Segni and SI ), those of 1999 ( European ) and 2000 ( regional ) to the combined result of PPI, Dem and RI, those of 2001 ( general and Sicilian regional ) the DL federation ( comprising at the time PPI, Dem, UDEUR Populars and RI ).