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WORLD / NEWS Mon May 26, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- Chinese soldiers Monday moved in to explode earthquake debris blocking a river where quickly rising waters threatened to flood disaster victims. Two weeks after the magnitude 7.9 earthquake hit central Sichuan province, lakes formed by obstructed river.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Jun 25, 2007 @ 10:05am neoform

USA Today -- President Hugo Chavez urged soldiers on Sunday to prepare for a guerrilla-style war against the United States, saying that Washington is using psychological and economic warfare as part of an unconventional campaign aimed at derailing his government. D.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon May 21, 2007 @ 8:28am neoform

New York Times -- 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.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Apr 20, 2007 @ 2:59pm neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- US soldiers are building a three-mile wall to separate one of Baghdad's Sunni enclaves from surrounding Shia neighbourhoods, it emerged today. The move is part of a contentious security plan that has fuelled fears of the Iraqi capital's Balkanisation... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Mar 3, 2007 @ 5:32am neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- 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.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Dec 20, 2006 @ 5:08pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Thousands of soldiers sent to seize control of one of Mexico's top drug-producing regions have discovered widespread cultivation of a hybrid marijuana plant that is easy to grow and difficult to kill, officials said Tuesday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Nov 12, 2006 @ 9:49am neoform

Reuters -- An Israeli general in charge of troops along the Lebanese border resigned on Sunday after being accused of failing to prevent the capture of two soldiers that triggered a month-long war with Hezbollah guerrillas... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Nov 7, 2006 @ 11:50pm neoform

Washington Post -- A helicopter crashed north of Baghdad early Monday, killing two American soldiers, the military announced... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Oct 29, 2006 @ 12:02am neoform

ABC News -- They are not pacifists. They don't represent a political party, and you won't see them at an anti-war rally... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Feb 7, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform

MSNBC -- All 26 NATO nations have soldiers in Afghanistan and all agree the mission is their top priority. But the refusal of European allies to send more combat troops is forcing an already stretched U.S. military focused on the Iraq war to fill the gap, and stra.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Oct 10, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

BBC News -- The first families have returned to the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in Lebanon, the scene of months of fighting between soldiers and Islamic militants. Clutching plastic bags of possessions, the families waited patiently at the camp entrance to be searc.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Oct 1, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- A search for survivors is under way after a volcano erupted on a Yemeni island in the Red Sea, killing at least two people. The western part of the tiny al-Tair island, used as a military base, collapsed following the eruption, the defence ministry sai.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Sep 25, 2007 @ 8:22am neoform

USA Today -- Five truckloads of soldiers were seen heading downtown in Burma's largest city Tuesday soon after tens of thousands of people led by Buddhist monks defied orders to stay off the streets and marched in another peaceful anti-government protest. Monks hav.. Read More

WORLD / OPINION Tue Sep 11, 2007 @ 11:09am neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- Money urgently needed to reduce the vast backlog of inquests into soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan has not been provided by the government, raising fresh fears that existing delays will grow longer. Despite pledges to cut the time military famil.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Jul 6, 2007 @ 10:25am neoform

BBC News -- 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.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Apr 14, 2007 @ 11:14am neoform

CNN -- A video showing a German army instructor telling one of his soldiers to envision African-Americans in the Bronx while firing his machine gun was broadcast Saturday on national television. The video, coming after scandals involving photos of German sold.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Mar 18, 2007 @ 3:25pm neoform

SF Gate -- Nepalese soldiers are teaching computing skills to the women of Houla, a Shiite Muslim village a little more than a mile from Lebanon's southern border with Israel. Elsewhere in the southeast part of the country, troops from Spain meet their Lebanese c.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Dec 11, 2006 @ 10:06pm neoform

News.com.au -- THE Australian Defence Force has banned soldiers from writing online journals and has deleted blogs from troops serving in Iraq... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Nov 9, 2006 @ 10:49pm neoform

Globe and Mail -- It will be at least 10 years before Afghan troops can handle national security without help from Canadians and other foreign soldiers, says a top military trainer here... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Nov 8, 2006 @ 9:13am mrmdc

CNN -- A suicide attack at Pakistan's main army training base killed at least 42 soldiers Wednesday, the military said, and suspicion fell on pro-Taliban militants who had vowed revenge for a deadly helicopter attack on an Islamic school last month... Read More