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Russian general: 'We are not pulling out' of Georgia
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersMOSCOW -- A ranking Russian military official today said Moscow plans to establish 18 long-term checkpoints inside Georgian territory, including at least eight within undisputed Georgian territory outside the pro-Russian enclave of South Ossetia. The...Tags: George Bush, Government, National Government, Injuries, Defense
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Army Corps completes dredging near Winfield, Mo.
The Army Corps of Engineers has completed emergency dredging operations on the upper Mississippi River north of Winfield, Missouri. The Corps says dredging began Saturday near Hamburg, Illinois, and river traffic needed to move more slowly while work...Tags: Defense
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Indiana native killed in Afghanistan
A 29-year-old soldier who went to high school in Indiana has been killed while serving in Afghanistan. The U.S. Department of Defense says staff Sgt. Kristopher Dan Rodgers of Burr Oak, Michigan, died Saturday in the Korengal Valley when a roadside bomb...Tags: Defense
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Army Corps of Engineers hosting meeting to discuss bombing range cleanup
Sentinel Staff WriterThe Army Corps of Engineers is hosting a community meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 26 at the Springhill Suites at 5828 Hazeltine National Drive to discuss the progress of the investigation and clean up of the former World War II-era bombing range in...Tags: Guerrilla Activity, Defense, Bombings
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Obama, VP Choice to Campaign Together Saturday
Associated PressRALEIGH, N.C. -- Barack Obama and his newly named running mate will campaign together Saturday at the place where the Democratic presidential hopeful formally launched his White House bid. A senior Obama adviser told The Associated Press on condition...Tags: Minority Groups, Hillary Clinton, Health Treatments, Political Candidates, Employees
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Katrina plus three: 'Hopeful progress'
The Swampby Mark Silva Nearly three years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast, blasting the shore towns of Louisiana and Mississippi and inundating New Orleans, President Bush plans to return to the scene of the storm today. Bush......Tags: Medicaid, Andrew Jackson, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Martin Luther King Jr., Meteorological Disasters
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Dick Cheney: Signs 'solidarity' w/ Georgia
The Swampby Mark Silva Dick Cheney dropped in at the Georgian embassy in Washington to declare his "solidarity'' with the Georgian people. Our colleague, Jim Gerstenzang, who is recording the closing days of the Bush administration at the L.A. Times' Countdown.......Tags: Government, National Government, Heads of State, Dick Cheney, Diplomacy
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Musharraf leaves Pakistan at crossroads
The Swampby Kim Barker ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The resignation of President Pervez Musharraf on Monday ends an era in Pakistan and could pave the way for a stronger civilian government that is more independent from the army than any government in......Tags: Condoleezza Rice, Judges, Defense, Terrorism, Emergency Incidents
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Afghan militants kill 10 French, strike at U.S. base
The Associated PressInsurgents mounted two of the biggest attacks in years on Western forces in Afghanistan, killing 10 French soldiers in a mountain ambush and then sending a squad of suicide bombers in a failed assault early yesterday on a U.S. base near the Pakistan...Tags: Guerrilla Activity, Terrorism, Armed Conflicts, Landforms, Civil Unrest
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Pakistan's ruling coalition at odds after forcing Musharraf's exit
The Associated PressJust a day after Pervez Musharraf's resignation, Pakistan's governing coalition fell into wrangling today over restoring the judges he fired, exposing troublesome divisions that could disrupt picking his successor as president. Pakistanis have been...Tags: Religious Conflicts, Guerrilla Activity, Political Candidates, Terrorism, Emergency Incidents
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Md. warns Army of lawsuit
Sun reporterMaryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler notified the Army Tuesday that the state plans to sue to get it to finish cleaning up groundwater and soil contamination at Fort Meade. Ratcheting up a long-running dispute, Gansler sent the Army a notice of...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Litigation, Fort Meade, Trials, Defense
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'Surge' didn't work, war won't be won
THREE ITEMS ATTRACTED MY attention in Tuesday's Sun. First, I read the list of 22 members of the U.S. armed forces recently killed in Iraq ("Killed in Iraq," Aug. 19). The total U.S. military dead in the Iraq war is now at least 4,143. Then I read The...Tags: United Nations, Wars and Interventions, Larry Smith, Defense, Guerrilla Activity
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