Village shaken by GPS-driven tank invasion
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Sat nav panzer army The Shropshire village of Donnington has suffered repeated invasions by transporters bearing 70-tonne tanks because the drivers' sat navs have mistaken the "picturesque" enclave with a nearby barracks of the same name.â¦
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ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan - Afghan civilians piled belongings onto trucks yesterday and fled two villages infiltrated by hundreds of Taliban militants. US, Canadian, and Afghan troops had about 250 of the insurgents surrounded.
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Gunfire crackled from a nearby junkyard used by insurgents on Monday when a U.S. Marine tank company and infantry units began moving into a desert staging position for an expected offensive on Falluja.
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Forces of war, nature, economic crisis and regional tension converge with a vengeance on populace.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq - Army tanks and fighting vehicles blasted their way into the last main rebel stronghold in Fallujah at sundown on Saturday after American warplanes and artillery prepared the way with a savage barrage on the district.
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When the local government announced it was going to confiscate their homes and businesses to make room for a new development, residents of this village in southeastern China fought back.
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Fear of fresh conflict as renegade general turns guns on government forces.
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The Afghan government and its NATO allies are preparing to take back a remote town occupied by the Taliban, who vowed to resist as residents fled fearing military strikes.
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It was the fourth day of the war, and an Israeli army loudspeaker boomed a warning across the border to this village: "You have two hours to leave."
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JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip - Israeli aircraft struck more targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday as the army massed an armored force in apparent preparation for a major military operation against militants in Jebaliya, the Palestinians' biggest refugee camp.    Some 200 tanks, armored personnel carriers and armored bulldozers assembled along Israel's border on Gaza's north and east of Gaza...
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Palestinian witnesses said Israeli tanks moved into an abandoned Israeli settlement in northern Gaza early Sunday, a day after pulling back.
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Through the scattered towns and along the dangerous roads of an area that one commander described as "kind of like the worst place in the world," U.S. Marines, British soldiers and Iraqi security forces are waging an offensive they say is vastly different from the urban warfare waged elsewhere in Iraq in recent weeks.
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BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip - Israeli tanks and bulldozers pulled back from this Palestinian town Thursday after tearing up roads, flattening greenhouses and knocking down dozens of houses in a devastating two-day raid, part of Israel's expanding invasion of the northern Gaza Strip.    The Israeli offensive is in its third week and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told legislators Thursday that the campaign would continue and even be broadened...
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Australian troops backed by tanks, helicopters and airplanes have stormed the East Timor town where a rebel leader is holed up, entering his stronghold, a witness said on Sunday.
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Afghan authorities have dropped leaflets warning Taliban occupying a remote town to leave or be forced out, as residents fled fearing an offensive by NATO-led troops.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 31 -- Taliban insurgents attacked a southern town Thursday, sparking intense fighting with government troops that left two guerrillas dead, the Defense Ministry said.
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Barely out of a four-day battle, the soldiers scanned palm-dotted farmland from the roof of a small house, kneeling to avoid a sniper's bullet. A pair of Apache gunships hovered above and the occasional thud of artillery shells shook the ground.