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  • Sri Lankan troops kill 20 rebels 11 Oct 2008 08:17 GMT
    ... COLOMBO (AFP) - Heavy fighting continued between troops ... with the military killing 20 guerrillas, the defence ministry said Saturday. Friday's fighting, which took ... Sri Lanka pulled out of a six-year Norwegian-brokered truce in January and has poured in ...

  • Memories of first cap still burn brightly for the King 10 Oct 2008 23:31 GMT
    ... will give Scotland's World Cup qualifier with Norway at Hampden a body swerve – he ... I turned my back on him in self-defence and it hit me and bounced into ... certainly plundered a few goals off the Norwegians during his international career. The Lawman thrice ...

  • EU, CoE join hands against death penalty 10 Oct 2008 17:28 GMT
    ... to Vladivostok in the east and from Norway in the north to the south-east of Turkey ... day on which we remember that the defence of human rights and the necessity of a justice ... Assembly, the Chairman of the Committee of Ministers and the Secretary General of the Council ...

  • EUROPE NEWS AT 1200GMT 10 Oct 2008 14:34 GMT
    ... Pan Pylas. AP Photos. WITH: US-MELTDOWN-DWINDLING OPTIONS NORWAY-NOBEL-PEACE OSLO, Norway _ Finland's ex-president Martti Ahtisaari ... WITH: FINLAND-NOBEL-AHTISAARI NATO-AFGHANISTAN BUDAPEST, Hungary _ NATO defense ministers authorize their troops in Afghanistan to attack ...

  • The stunning collapse of Iceland 10 Oct 2008 13:27 GMT
    ... Nation may face bankruptcy, with dire effects for ... prop up its Swedish arm, while the Norwegian Banks' Guarantee Fund offered $819 million in ... were quick to rush to the country's defense. They noted that Iceland had strong financial ...

  • NACRE AS exhibiting at Defendory International 10 Oct 2008 12:03 GMT
    ... : kristine.larssen@nacre.no NACRE, headquartered in Trondheim - Norway, is the world leading company in tactical, miniature, ... are currently in service with the US Army, US Marine Corps, US Air Force, US ... Specialized Exhibition of Conventional Systems for National Defence on Land-Sea-Air. Defendory International 2008 will be ...

  • Halkirk make light of injury crisis 10 Oct 2008 12:03 GMT
    ... Davidson was next to pierce the home defence, with his slide-rule pass after 37 minutes ... happy with another decent display by his troops, who he believes are coping well with ... are watching Scotlands World Cup Qualifier versus Norway at Hampden. Mackay is set to resume in ...

  • News Minute: Worldwide selloff...Nobel prize...Obama in prime time 10 Oct 2008 11:31 GMT
    ... trigger the automatic timeouts in trading. OSLO, Norway (AP) - Finland's ex-president Martti Ahtisaari (MAHR'-tee ah-tih-ZAH'-ree) ... Hungary (AP) - A spokesman says NATO defense ministers have agreed their troops can target drug ...

  • News Minute: Global markets tumble...Bush on economy...Peace Prize winner 10 Oct 2008 10:50 GMT
    ... trigger the automatic timeouts in trading. OSLO, Norway (AP) - Finland's ex-president Martti Ahtisaari (MAHR'-tee ah-tih-ZAH'-ree) ... Hungary (AP) - A spokesman says NATO defense ministers have agreed their troops can target drug ...

  • US: Pentagon rejects claims of 1991 nuclear explosion in Iraq 10 Oct 2008 10:50 GMT
    ... Oct. (AKI) - The US Department of Defense has rejected controversial claims that the American military ... in southern Iraq during the first Gulf War in 1991. Lt. Col. Patrick Ryder, a ... Canada, one in Sweden and one in Norway. However, Brown was not present during the ...

  • Sri Lankan minister escapes suicide blast 10 Oct 2008 02:41 GMT
    ... COLOMBO: A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber attacked ... Agriculture Minister Maithripala Sirisena. Police and Civil Defence Force members collect evidence at the site ... Sri Lanka pulled out of a six-year Norwegian-brokered truce in January, since when the military ...

  • Corps robots more than meet the eye 10 Oct 2008 01:51 GMT
    ... Concerning robots, as one of the taglines of ... is extensively used by the German, Danish, Norwegian, Australian and Canadian militaries and is currently ... of ‘man’s best friend” called BigDog, a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency endeavor constructed by ...

  • NATO Ministers Discuss Afghan Problems, Challenges 9 Oct 2008 23:25 GMT
    ... alliance is adjusting to changing situations in the country, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said today. Gates spoke ... effort in Afghanistan during the alliance’s defense ministerial conference here. While measurements of violence are ... hard time filling.” Ambassador Kai Eide of Norway, a special United Nations envoy to Afghanistan, ...

  • The Arctic contest heats up 9 Oct 2008 20:45 GMT
    ... nothing. That highlights worries elsewhere, particularly in Norway, where fighter jets scramble on average once ... strategically empty space,” says Jon Bingen, a defence analyst in Oslo. Legal fuzziness increases Russia’s ... when a rogue Russian trawler briefly kidnapped Norwegian fishing inspectors in 2005. At stake are ...

  • NPP Opens Fire On Rawlings 9 Oct 2008 20:40 GMT
    ... Posted to the web 9 October 2008 THE ... to deny it. "Indeed last year, a Norwegian court, the Norwegian owners of GHACEM admitted ... industry in Ghana. To date, in his defence, Mr. Rawlings has only managed a half-hearted ...


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