Closure of U.S. base in Iceland to mark end of an era
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When the United States lowers the   flag at its base in Keflavik, Iceland, on Saturday, it will end   a military presence that has lasted since World War Two and   leave the island nation without home-based defences.
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The United States plans to withdraw  about 70,000 troops from Europe and Asia in a major realignment  of American military presence prompted by the end of the Cold  War and the beginning of the war on terrorism, U.S. officials  said on Saturday.
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Iceland is under U.S. pressure to  drop plans to offer a home to fugitive former chess champion  Bobby Fischer, who is wanted for breaking sanctions against  Yugoslavia in 1992, officials said Monday.
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The last vestige of the U.S. military in the heart of Frankfurt, Germany, draws to a close Thursday.
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Nordic ceasefire monitors began wrapping up their 6-year mission to Sri Lanka on Friday after the government scrapped a truce with the Tamil Tigers, and their mandate, amid a chorus of international concern.
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It&#039;s a coalition of the dwindling. The U.S.-led multinational force in Iraq is losing two of its most important allies &amp;#151; Italy and South Korea &amp;#151; and up to half a dozen other members could draw down their forces or pull out entirely by the end of the year.
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LONDON, May 24 -- Families forced to leave the Chagos Islands, a British territory in the Indian Ocean, to make way for a U.S. military base at Diego Garcia during the Cold War have won a key legal victory in their long struggle to return.
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THE US consulate in Edinburgh could be downgraded or even closed under American plans to replace many small diplomatic outposts with websites and call centres.
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Some wars end in peace treaties or surrender ceremonies. The Iraq war appears destined to end in a noxious mixture of metaphors.
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Fugitive chess master Bobby Fischer has been offered a new home in Iceland, where he won a classic victory in 1972, but it is unclear whether he will be able to make the move from his detention in Japan.
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President George W. Bush will on Monday announce the withdrawal of up to 100,000 US troops from Europe and Asia as part of a major defense reorganization, officials said.
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February 17, 2009, is the day when analog broadcasts shut down, and government agencies are planning ahead for the transition.
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Where does America end? In the age of high-tech undersea mapping, redefining long-settled borders is a trillion-dollar question.
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Nordic ceasefire monitors began wrapping up their six-year mission to Sri Lanka on Friday after the government scrapped a truce with the Tamil Tigers, and their mandate, amid a chorus of international concern.
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At Ulrich Jung's hair salon, rumors are flying about the future of this small town in the rolling hills of southwestern Germany. One customer with a buzz cut has heard that all the U.S. troops will leave by 2007. Someone else has information that they will be gone sooner, perhaps within a year.
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US energy services company Halliburton is to end its operations in Iran after existing contracts come to an end citing a poor environment.
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The International Ministerial Meeting of the Neighboring Countries of Iraq is closed in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt&#39;s Red Sea resort, Nov.22, 2004.