MND confirms China pulling troops from drill
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The Ministry of Defense confirmed yesterday that China&#39;s military had withdrawn most of its troops from Dongshan Island where it was to hold an annual war game, but would not say if the action indicated Beijing was calling off the maneuvers that simulate
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LONDON, Sept. 3 -- British troops completed a withdrawal from downtown Basra on Monday, moving to an airport outside the city, their last base in Iraq. Prime Minister Gordon Brown called the move part of a British strategy to shift from combat to an "overwatch" role.
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BERLIN In a surprise announcement, Poland said Monday that it would withdraw its troops from Iraq by the end of 2005, leaving the US-led multinational forces the task of finding replacements to fill a crucial security role in south-central Iraq.
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British troops are pulling out of a base  at a palace in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Sunday, a  British Ministry of Defense source said.
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Iraqi authorities have taken a police brigade out of service and returned them to training because of "complicity" with death squads in the wake of a mass kidnapping in Baghdad this week, a U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday.
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A US Army captain has been relieved of command at her request over an incident last week in which some reservists refused to drive a fuel convoy on a dangerous mission, Pentagon officials told CNN.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- The US military, the largest group helping tsunami survivors, is starting to withdraw troops from the relief efforts to feed and house more than 1 million refugees, the US Pacific commander said yesterday.
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Georgia said on Friday its troops had  withdrawn after seizing strategic ground in a rebel territory,  in a move sure to be welcomed by Washington alarmed at a drift  toward war in an economically vital region.
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A DAMAGING power struggle between Chinaâs old and new guards was decisively settled yesterday with the resignation of the former president Jiang Zemin as head of Chinaâs armed forces.
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TAIPEI - Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian has called off a major military exercise slated for Sept 9 in a goodwill gesture after China cancelled its drills, Taiwanese officials said yesterday.
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JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip - Israel withdrew tanks and ground forces from populated areas in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday, wrapping up its bloodiest offensive in the area in more than four years of fighting.    Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered the pullback at the urging of Israeli military commanders, who argued the two-week offensive had played itself out, and after calls from the United States to wrap up the operation...
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Georgia has begun pulling its troops out of the conflict zone in South Ossetia and plans to hand over its control to a joint pace keeping force.
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Capping a rocky but peaceful transition of power, China&#39;s ruling Communist Party on Sunday eased former paramount leader Jiang Zemin out of his last formal post as head of the military
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Israeli troops and armor completed their pullback from built-up areas in the Gaza Strip early on Saturday, but many soldiers have remained in the territory, redeployed
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The first batch of Japanese troops began pulling out of Iraq Friday, with about 30 arriving in Kuwait on their way home, news reports said Friday. A C-130 transport aircraft of Japan&#039;s air force carrying about 30 troops arrived at a Kuwaiti airport Friday afternoon, Kyodo News agency reported from Kuwait. Public broadcaster NHK had a similar report.
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on Tuesday said British spy masters have formally withdrawn the intelligence that Iraqi troops could deploy some chemical and biological weapons on 45 minutes notice, information used as a rationale for joining the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
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Former Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin has stepped down from his final post of the Communist Party of China, handing over the Party&#39;s top military position to President Hu Jintao.