Belgian military deployed to combat caterpillars
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A mini-platoon of soldiers will be deployed to the Belgian forests to tackle a plague of hairy caterpillars that are causing allergy outbreaks in humans.
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Â· Record deployment of paratroopersÂ· Country may be sliding to civil war
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It has all the makings of a potential rangeland disaster: thousands of acres of grass and the herds of cattle, antelope and other animals that need to eat it versus an emerging army of spiky caterpillars with voracious appetites. But ranchers hope quick action will take care of the caterpillars &#151; also known as range worms &#151; before they can destroy pastures in northeastern New Mexico.
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(Correcting number in headline from 200 to 400. A corrected version of the item follows)  Text of report by Radio France Internationale on 6 June  [Chadian President] Idriss Deby Itno has deployed 400 regular army soldiers to defend the elephant population decimated by poachers.
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France's military said on Thursday it had  transported munitions to the Chadian government army, which  repelled a rebel attack on the capital N'Djamena this month.
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France dispatched another 600 troops Sunday to help calm the volatile situation in the Ivory Coast, where French forces, deployed to enforce a shaky cease-fire, and ordinary civilians have been the targets of violence.
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French soldiers armed with machine guns and backed by armored vehicles deployed to major junctions in Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan on Sunday following attacks on French citizens by mobs of militant youths.
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Against a backdrop of protests, the defense minister gave citations Monday to Dutch troops who served in the U.N. peacekeeping force that failed to prevent the slaughter of Muslims in the Srebrenica enclave during the Bosnian war.
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Belgium arrested 14 suspects and stepped up security in public places on Friday after thwarting a plot to spring from jail an al Qaeda suspect arrested in September 2001 for plotting attacks on U.S. targets.
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AN advance guard of British troops was in war-torn Ivory Coast yesterday planning a rescue mission. Four vehicles carrying a dozen soldiers were spotted in the capital Abidjan as up to 120 troops were put on stand-by to fly to the former French colony.
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ANTWERP, Belgium (CP) - Canadian and Belgian soldiers joined together Saturday in tribute to the men of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry and the Belgian Secret Army who battled to free the port from German occupation.
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BERLIN, Dec. 21 -- Belgian police said Friday they had arrested 14 people who were planning an armed raid to free an al-Qaeda follower convicted of plotting to detonate a truck bomb on a NATO base in Belgium.
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New ways of protecting U.S. troops from RPGs, biological weapons and more take center stage at a military science conference. There's even a morphine substitute that emerged from the rave scene. Noah Shachtman reports from Orlando, Florida.
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French military aircraft have been patrolling the Chad-Sudan border to ensure there is no foreign interference.
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Belgium steps up security in the capital after a plot to free a jailed al-Qaeda suspect is foiled, officials say.
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The French military has set up a forward base in Togo to allow it to have aircraft within easy reach of Ivory Coast, which saw a sudden escalation in its two-year-old civil war last week, officials said here ...
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In 'Marius' project, helicopters are used to set up temporary SMS networks in the case of a crisis.