Army restricted ethnic recruits
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The British Army secretly restricted numbers of ethnic recruits, according to official files just released.
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Britain has extended full citizenship rights to Gurkha soldiers from Nepal who serve in the British armed forces, Prime Minister Tony Blair said yesterday.
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On Sunday voters rejected government-backed plans to simplify naturalisation procedures for second-generation foreigners. They also turned down a proposal to grant children born in Switzerland to foreign parents the automatic right to a Swiss passport.
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Unskilled foreigners will find it harder to migrate to Britain under new proposals, which also call for stricter screening of asylum seekers and tighter border controls.
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The number of neo-Nazis and skinheads in the armed forces is increasing, according to a watchdog group that claims the military is relaxing standards amid pressure to sign up recruits during the Iraq war.
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A human rights charity claims children are being forcibly recruited into Burma's army due to a lack of adult recruits.
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[World News] London, Sep 30 : Britain has announced that Gurkhas who served in its army would be able to apply for settlement and British citizenship on completion of their service.
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The U.S. military imposed tight restrictions on all personnel in Okinawa on Wednesday, limiting troops to bases, places or work or off-base housing, amid a furor over the arrest of Marine on suspicion of rape.
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Award denied to thousands of soldiers --tankers, engineers, artillerymen -- retrained for infantry.
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The British army considered setting up a regiment for British Sikhs but dropped the idea because it did not want to segregate them from other soldiers, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
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Critical to the war effort in Iraq, the National Guard and Army Reserve are drawing fewer enlistees. Will the troop shortage worsen?
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Military service may insulate candidates from 'weak on defense' charges.
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The US military is having trouble recruiting local Arabs to help with training by manning 'Iraqi villages.'
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Burma's army has moved reinforcements into ethnic minority areas for the probable renewal of an offensive
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Well, probably not US spooks will not get access to English and Welsh census information even if the census contract is won by US defence firm Lockheed Martin.â¦
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Universities were encouraged yesterday to give preference to students from minority backgrounds in a scheme that could see working-class and ethnic minority applicants
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Former Nepalese-born Gurkha soldiers who helped defend Hong Kong under British rule are fuming at London's decision to exclude them from a new law giving the crack fighters British citizenship.