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...Into the Water, by Paula Hawkins, Doubleday, RRP£20/Riverhead, RRP$28 A new thriller by the author of 2015 bestseller The Girl on the Train....
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...The judge, Lt Col Paul Almanza, rejected the motion that he recuse himself....
...“We are supportive of efforts to reduce waste and improve on the value we obtain for the dollars we spend in support of contingency operations,” said Colonel David Lapan, a Pentagon spokesman....
...David Cameron, Britain’s prime minister, had earlier pressed Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s president, to drop his country’s opposition....
...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....
...Under heavy pressure from David Cameron, the Americans are still providing resources to enforce the no-fly zone....
...As the Nato-led coalition continues to support rebel operations in Libya, David Cameron, Britain’s prime minister, opened the conference saying it would sketch out how the world could help Libya make the...
...David Cameron, UK prime minister, was forced to try to allay concerns that the deployment of UK military personnel as advisers to the rebels is a sign of mission creep....
...minister, would make clear at a meeting at 10 Downing Street on Wednesday that the alliance would increase pressure on Col Gaddafi still further....
...the rebels in the event that their confrontation with Col Gaddafi descends into a stalemate....
...David Cameron urged the UN on Wednesday to “show some leadership”’ on Libya, calling on the UN Security Council to back a no-fly zone that would try to contain Muammer Gaddafi’s assault on rebels seeking...
...The conflict over Libya has been the most testing feature of the relationship between David Cameron, UK prime minister, and Mr Obama....
...His subsequent change of direction to lead a charge against Col Gaddafi impresses no one. David Cameron has exposed his inexperience....
...Mr Blair adopted a policy wherein Col Gaddafi was indulged as a tyrant, in return for renouncing WMD and assisting the west to fight terrorism....
...He said pressure on Col Gaddafi, including economic sanctions, would “hopefully” lead to his departure....
...However, he stopped short of endorsing the view that Col Gaddafi could never be a target under the resolution....
...Following the vote, Barack Obama, the US president, conferred with David Cameron, UK prime minister, and Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, to co-ordinate “next steps”, according to the White House....
...It is steering clear of attacking TV stations, although they are a key source of Col Gaddafi’s power....
...As operations continued, David Cameron, Britain’s prime minister, stepped up the rhetoric against Col Gaddafi’s “henchmen”, building on coalition efforts to encourage defections and sow discord within the...
...For David Cameron the formative event was a Tory government’s indifference to the slaughter in Bosnia during the 1990s....
...David Cameron, UK prime minister, said on Sunday that Col Gaddafi should “go now”, adding: “There is no future for a Libya that includes him.”...
...These would be used to contain Col Gaddafi’s forces if he were seen to be trying to make further advances on the ground....
...Senior British defence chiefs have told David Cameron he should be wary of involvement in a sustained military operation in Libya because it would leave the UK unable to respond to any other security crisis...
...David Cameron, British prime minister, had joined the French call for a no-fly zone, but British officials later had to distance themselves from Mr Sarkozy’s rhetoric on air strikes....
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