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...Having just passed the second anniversary of Covid-19 being declared a global pandemic at the beginning of March, this Thursday will mark a month since Russian troops invaded Ukraine....
...By leaving the VFA hanging, the Philippine president is “kicking the can down the road,” said Lynn Kuok, a senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Singapore....
...Who knew that after the fall of Singapore, the BBC took Vera Lynn off the air for a time because of a concern that the forces sweetheart’s “sloppy songs” were undermining the nation’s fighting spirit?...
...The Texas National Guard has sent 21 troops from a civil support team to monitor air quality near the blast, the Pentagon announced Thursday....
...No doubt many organisations attempt to take such issues seriously at the top but for troops on the front line I wonder how many know or care about CSR....
...Additional reporting by Julie Zhu in Hong Kong and Lynn Davis Photographs: AP; Getty; Eric Nathan; Bloomberg; Business Wire; Reuters; Noor Bank...
...Lynn Fox, a Signal Corps officer for six years, was drawn to do an executive MBA to “round out” her experience....
...To the sound of Vera Lynn singing “We’ll meet again” the flame will be carried from the stadium back to the speedboat, borrowed from a hedge fund manager based in Geneva and carried away by David Beckham...
...an acknowledgement that efforts to reduce the US fiscal deficit are likely to hit the Pentagon’s budget, despite resistance from the military, he also said there could be overall spending cuts once US troops...
...The move was part of a broad reassessment of how the Pentagon and troops were engaging with an increasingly open web....
...“But what struck me was the camaraderie of the troops. It was very touching.” It is the individuality of each soldier that he feels gets lost in coverage of the war....
...A Blue Peter presenter; frankly that’s only one notch above spitting on Vera Lynn....
...Republicans have also been rallying their troops....
...Soon after penicillin, the first antibiotic, was manufactured on a large scale for Allied troops during the second world war, resistant forms of the common Staphylococcus aureus infection began to emerge...
...Time was when it would have been the British forces broadcasting service and Dame Vera Lynn....
...These range from New Yorker Richard Meier and Beijing-based Yung Ho Chang (collaborating with Californian Greg Lynn) to some of Britain’s finest....
...A troop of Japanese?) If Kazuo Ishiguro’s script were any more lapidary and literary it would be a novel. People say things like “Why do you have such heavy doors?...
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