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Journal Sentinel Online
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This summer's distressingly low water levels on the upper Great Lakes have a lot of people scratching their heads, but a group of Canadian property owners is pointing the finger straight at the Army Corps of Engineers - an agency it says is largely respon..
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Washington Post
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A federal judge yesterday ordered the military to temporarily refrain from awarding the largest security contract in Iraq. The order followed an unusual series of events set off when a U.S. Army veteran filed a protest against the government practice of h..
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CNN
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Black plumes of smoke poured from a Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli on Tuesday as members of an Islamic militant group battled the Lebanese army for a third day.
The crack of small-arms fire echoed through the neighborhoods surrounding the overcr..
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Guardian Unlimited
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The Swiss army is not renowned for its aggressive expeditionary adventures - but it does appear to have accidentally invaded Liechtenstein.
According to the Swiss daily Blick, around 170 infantry soldiers from the famously neutral country wandered more..
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BBC News
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The Lebanese army has said it is prepared to use force to disarm gunmen and restore order across the country.
It follows a week of clashes between supporters of the Western-backed government and the Hezbollah-led opposition.
At least 60 people are b..
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CNN
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Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has extended for six months the cease-fire he imposed last summer on his Mehdi Army militia, al-Sadr's office in Baghdad said Friday. The official said a letter was distributed to all al-Sadr offices announcing the exte..
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CNN
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The Italian army was called in early Monday to help clear piles of trash that went uncollected for more than two weeks in the Naples area, while residents in a city suburb set up roadblocks to protest the reopening of a garbage dump. Before dawn, army eng..
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BBC News
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Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has handed over the command of the military in a ceremony in Rawalpindi.
Gen Musharraf passed a ceremonial baton to Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani at the army's headquarters.
In his farewell address, Gen Musharraf sai..
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BBC News
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Pakistan's attorney general says he expects President Pervez Musharraf to resign as army head before 1 December.
Gen Musharraf has promised to resign his army post once the Supreme Court validates his next term as the country's president.
The attorn..
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Times Online
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A soldier whose army career was cut short by serious injury in Iraq was put in fear of becoming homeless when he was given less than 30 days to leave the army house where he lives with his wife and three children.
Carl Tarry is still awaiting compensat..
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BBC News
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Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has named his successor to take over as army chief, the military says.
The appointee is former head of intelligence Lt Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kiani, military spokesman Maj Gen Waheed Arshad told the BBC.
Gen Musharra..
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BBC News
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Pakistan's Supreme Court says President Pervez Musharraf can stand for election next week despite still being head of the country's army.
It dismissed a number of legal challenges to his right to hold both posts at the same time.
Gen Musharraf regis..
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MSNBC
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Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf will give up his post of army chief if he is re-elected president and will be sworn in for a new term as a civilian, his lawyer told the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
The promise to stand down as army chief removes a..
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BBC News
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Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf will give up his post of army chief if he is re-elected for another term of office, his chief lawyer has said.
In a statement to the Supreme Court, the lawyer said that if Gen Musharraf won the election, he would b..
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Al Jazeera
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The secularists, including powerful army generals, derailed an earlier attempt to have parliament elect Gul as president, a move that triggered early parliamentary elections which the AK Party won decisively last month.
A first round of voting in the..
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BBC News
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The British army's operation in Northern Ireland will come to an end at midnight on Tuesday after 38 years.
Operation Banner - the Army's support role for the police - has been its longest continuous campaign, with more than 300,000 personnel taking pa..
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BBC News
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An internal British army document examining 37 years of deployment in Northern Ireland contains the claim by one expert that it failed to defeat the IRA.
The admission is contained in a discussion document released by the Ministry of Defence after a re..
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Al Jazeera
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He admitted concealing his service with the German army in the Balkans but always denied knowing of Nazi war crimes committed there at the time, including deportations of thousands of Greek Jews.
Tainted past
As UN secretary-general, Waldheim prea..
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BBC News
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The Nepalese army has sent a rescue team to a remote mountain region where several hundred people are believed to have been trapped by a heavy snowstorm.
The army says it has flown its team by helicopter to Dolpa district in western Nepal but it will t..
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BBC News
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Prince Harry will not be sent to Iraq, the head of the British army has said.
General Sir Richard Dannatt said the prince's deployment would pose an "unacceptable" threat to him and the men who served alongside him.
It had been reported that militan..
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