Britain honours war heroes from Iraqi, Afghan campaigns
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A sergeant who led a an attack on Iraqi forces despite being wounded and a Gurkha who saved the life of a US soldier in Afghanistan are among 90 British servicemen and women to be awarded military honours on Tuesday.
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Diplomats, engineers, police and a football manager are awarded UK honours for their work in reconstructing Iraq.
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A British soldier who died in combat in Afghanistan will be the first to be posthumously awarded the nation's highest military honour since the Falklands War, reports said.
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LONDON -- Britain said yesterday it will increase its troop strength in southern Afghanistan to bolster NATO forces battling Taliban militants, days after Prime Minister Tony Blair said he was pulling some British troops out of Iraq.
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London - Three British soldiers killed in a suicide attack in Iraq were named on Friday, as Prime Minister Tony Blair faced mounting criticism for sending them into a dangerous United States-run sector of the country.
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The men and women who died fighting for their country are to be remembered on Armistice Day.
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LONDON  - Prince Charles joined 140 military widows Saturday for an annual ceremony honouring Britain's war dead, including those killed in Iraq.
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Britain&#39;s Ministry of Defence on  Saturday named the three British soldiers killed in Afghanistan  by a bomb dropped by a U.S. aircraft coming to support them in  a battle against the Taliban.
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The queens of Britain and Belgium paid tribute Thursday to the Allied soldiers from British Commonwealth nations who died by the tens of thousands 90 years ago in one of the bloodiest battles of World War I.
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Movies about the war in Iraq take pride of place in this year's London Film Festival line-up.
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Britain&#39;s Olympic heroes have begun a special lap of honour with a tickertape parade through the capital. Flag-waving fans cheered as more than 100 medallists from the Athens Olympics and Paralympics games toured London.
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Britain spent more than &#36;2.7 billion on peacekeeping operations in Iraq in the 10 months following the end of initial combat there, the Ministry of Defense said Wednesday.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair pays tribute to the three British soldiers killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq.
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Britain praised Afghanistan's &quot;inspirational&quot; elections, saying the high turnout was a milestone for the central Asian state recovering from decades of conflict.
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Britain&#39;s leaders, war veterans and bereaved relatives Thursday marked the 25th anniversary of victory in the Falklands War amid a mixture of celebration and sombre reflection.
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Tributes are played to a British soldier killed in Afghanistan after he is named by the Ministry of Defence.
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Britain honored its Olympic heroes Friday, knighting four-time gold medallist Matthew Pinsent and making middle-distance runner Kelly Holmes a dame.