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...The tenacious pensioners of Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club need little introduction....
...If they’d read Antony Loewenstein’s The Palestine Laboratory, they would have known not to bother....
...The colonel making the announcement was flanked by uniformed colleagues....
...The cleric hates the colonel. Two theocracies of different denominations hate each other....
...The Silver Valley in the Coeur d’Alene Mountains of northern Idaho was one of the most prolific silver regions in the world, yielding more than 1.2bn ounces of the metal since mining started in the 1880s...
...If people say Stan McChrystal was a good guy, I trusted him, I’d be good with that.”...
...“You see things quite differently from here,” says Colonel Jakob Sogard Larsen, the Danish commander of Nato’s “integration unit” in Lithuania....
...You’d never know it. Her ear for American dialogue is flawless, her historical details spot on. The quality of the writing, too, is astonishing....
...(He later said he’d been misinterpreted.) Last year The Sunday Times alleged that a Qatari, Mohamed bin Hammam, made payments totalling $5m to win support for Qatar’s bid....
...When he arrived at Westminster in 1983, there were two members of the whips’ office who had gone ashore on D-Day....
...The judge, Denise Lind, an army Colonel, presided over the two-month long trial at Fort Meade, the sprawling defence base north of Washington housing the US Cyber Command and the National Security Agency...
...The judge, Denise Lind, an army colonel, delivered the verdict in a hearing on Tuesday that lasted only a few minutes....
...Buck McKeon, a Republican, who as the chair of the House armed services committee is pivotal to congressional policy, said he was willing to reconsider the issue, with conditions....
...“Dan was bright, hardworking and success-driven; the kind of person who if you’re running a business you always hoped you’d be able to recruit.”...
...It represents “the change of battlefield from the Middle East and Central Asia to the Western Pacific”, Fan Gaoyue, a senior colonel in the People’s Liberation Army, wrote earlier this year....
...“Utilising US warriors to protect civilians from a brutal dictator is a noble cause,” said Mr McKeon....
...Four decades after Muammer Gaddafi seized power in Libya, some six months after the world community decided that the colonel had to go, his regime has unravelled....
...But by the end we are no closer to getting inside the head of the most controversial US president since Richard Nixon....
...Andrew Bacevich, a former army colonel who teaches at Boston University, says US policy after 9/11 was driven by the false confidence derived from the crushing defeat of Saddam Hussein in the first Gulf...
...They will be accompanied in “two plus two” talks by General Sir David Richards, Britain’s chief of defence staff, and Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff....
...Foreign ministers from almost 40 countries met in London on Tuesday to set out options for Libya’s long-term political future if Colonel Muammer Gaddafi leaves power....
...While Colonel Gaddafi is not on the target list, several strikes have been authorised on his compound to undermine the regime’s command and communications....
...Uncertainty persists about whether – as the British and French governments assert – Libya’s inland tribes are eagerly awaiting liberation from Colonel Gaddafi, or whether they retain a real loyalty to their...
...Some suggest Colonel Muammer Gaddafi could be persuaded to leave the country soon, particularly if his inner circle turns against their ageing, and internationally isolated, leader....
...“China is not close to developing into a global military power,” says Christopher D. Yung of the National Defense University....
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