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BBC News
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One of Turkey's best known singers, Bulent Ersoy, has gone on trial charged with attempting to turn the public against military service.
The charges were brought after she suggested it was not worth sacrificing soldiers' lives in Turkey's conflict with t..
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BBC News
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China says it plans to increase military spending by nearly 18% this year, to 417.8bn yuan ($59bn; �30bn).
The figure was revealed ahead of China's annual parliamentary session, which begins on Wednesday.
Just before the announcement, the US relea..
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BBC News
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Another US military serviceman has been detained over an alleged sexual assault on Japan's southern island of Okinawa.
In the latest of a string of incidents involving US troops, the man is accused of raping a Filipino woman at a hotel.
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CNN
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American fighter jets intercepted two Russian bombers, one of which buzzed a U.S. aircraft carrier in the western Pacific on Saturday, U.S. military officials told CNN Monday. Russia's Defense Ministry said Tuesday that there was no violation of flight re..
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MSNBC
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A U.S. Blackhawk helicopter crashed on Thursday in northern Italy with 10 people on board, killing at least two of them, police said.
The crash took place in a rural area outside the northern Italian city of Treviso, along the bank of the Piave river,..
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BusinessWeek
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The President declares a state of emergency, but his army is no longer so popular and the U.S. may withdraw military aid
Pakistan's political crisis has reached its predictable zenith, with President Pervez Musharraf declaring a state of emergency on N..
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Reuters
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Ecuador's leftist President Rafael Correa said Washington must let him open a military base in Miami if the United States wants to keep using an air base on Ecuador's Pacific coast.
Correa has refused to renew Washington's lease on the Manta air base,..
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Washington Post
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Iraq has ordered $100 million worth of light military equipment from China for its police force, contending that the United States was unable to provide the materiel and is too slow to deliver arms shipments, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said yesterday...
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CNN
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Tens of thousands of Buddhist monks defied orders from the military junta to stay out of politics, relaunching mass protests Tuesday in the country's two biggest cities. The monks, cheered on by supporters, marched out for an eighth day of peaceful protes..
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New York Times
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Hundreds of Buddhist monks marched through rain-washed streets for the third day in Myanmar’s main city yesterday, taking the lead in monthlong protests that the military junta has so far been powerless to contain.
They prayed at the gold-spired Shwe..
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SF Gate
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On the eve of a devout Muslim's expected accession to the country's presidency, Turkey's resolutely secular military leadership issued a sharp warning Monday against any attempt to erode the constitutional separation of religion and state.
The strongly..
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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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SF Gate
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China's military buildup remains focused on preventing Taiwan's independence but is expanding to include other regional military goals, including securing the flow of oil from overseas, according to an annual Pentagon study.
The 42-page report, require..
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New York Times
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The officer, a squadron leader in the Royal Air Force, felt he had no choice. So he stood up in front of his squad of 30 to 40 people.
“I said, ‘Right, I’ve got something to tell you,’ ” he said. “ ‘I believe that for us to be able to wor..
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Alter Net
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The U.S. government has proposed to make Vicenza, Italy, the largest U.S. military site in Europe, but the people of Vicenza, and all of Italy, have sworn it will never happen.
The U.S. government has proposed to make Vicenza, Italy, the largest US mil..
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Washington Times
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Battling high winds, 25-foot ice walls, mechanical breakdowns and whiteout conditions, a Canadian military team, including Eskimo reservists, last week completed a 17-day trek designed to sustain Canada's claim to sovereignty over the high Arctic...
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Herald Tribune
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They call it "Plan B."
As Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez further tightens control of the South American country's economy, wealthy Venezuelans who once thought they could live with his socialist edicts are turning to their backup plan - flight to the..
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Washington Post
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A helicopter crashed north of Baghdad early Monday, killing two American soldiers, the military announced...
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BBC News
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Iran's military has fired dozens of missiles during a military exercise in central Iran, state-run TV reported...
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BBC News
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Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej is heading to Burma to urge military rulers to allow aid agencies to help victims of the devastating cyclone.
Western nations want Mr Samak to persuade the junta to relax its stance on letting foreign experts in.
T..
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