Army sent after minks on the run
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Twenty German soldiers were deployed on  Friday to help recapture around 17,000 minks on the run.
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Civilian volunteers have rushed in to help run the Marine Corps' annual Toys for Tots drive because the soldiers have their hands full in Iraq, making sure tens of thousands of gifts reach children around the country in time for Christmas.
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BAGHDAD -- The US Army Reserve soldiers who refused orders to drive a dangerous route were members of one of a few supply units whose trucks are still unarmored, their commanding general said yesterday.
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A Sydney newspaper has published a photograph of Australian soldiers posing as members of the Ku Klux Klan. The Daily Telegraph said the soldiers were dressed like that to intimidate young Aboriginal recruits.
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They endured a summer of war, but now relief is coming for Lebanon's little known victims &#151; cats and dogs abandoned when their owners fled the country during the early days of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
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Military families across America often endure hardship when a loved one ships out. But there are not many places in the U.S. where those left behind have to chop ice out of the tundra for drinking water and make sure the freezer is well-stocked with walrus and seal meat.
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When troops in Iraq complain about not having adequate armor on trucks that are big targets in some of the countryâs most dangerous areas, thereâsa good chance that some of the vehicles are from Oshkosh Truck Corp.
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LAS VEGAS - Some 30,000 pounds of dog food is on its way to the Middle East to feed a unit of starving Iraqi canines, after an e-mail sent by a local Army Reserve captain elicited offers to help from across the nation.
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By GRAHAM GRANT  AS Scotland's most endangered mammal, the water vole has come close to extinction while its predators thrived.   For 50 years, a growing population of mink has caused a catastrophic decline in the number of water voles on our riverbanks.
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By Melissa Eddy Associated Press  BUCHENWALD, Germany -- The hunt begins with a number.
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Predators know to hunt the weakest animal in the herd. So do the Iraqi insurgents. It is an essential truth about the Iraq war that&#39;s ingrained in soldiers like Pvt.
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The military is looking for a few good acres Â very, very dark ones.
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ROSE CITY, Mich. - Police spent Tuesday morning rounding up a host of four-legged fugitives turned loose after a truck delivering them to northeast Michigan pet stores collided with a tractor.
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The army, navy and air force were called out to help local officials and police in rescue operations, and curfew was imposed in many areas to prevent looting.
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The US Army is looking into why up to 19 reservists with a supply platoon in Iraq refused to complete a mission. Relatives of the soldiers claim that the troops felt the job was too dangerous and their vehicles were unsafe for the mission.
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Army personnel and volunteers assist in rescue operations near the damaged cars of two trains in Khanpur, India, on Tuesday. An express train crashed head-on into a local train along a stretch of rural track
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LONDON  - The British army is going into battle - for a slice of the sneaker market.