Senators visit European military cemeteries
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A delegation of senators touring U.S. military cemeteries in Europe laid wreaths Monday near the graves of thousands of soldiers, including many who died storming the beaches of Normandy on D-Day in June 1944.
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CONSTANTA, Romania  - One day after visiting Iraq, U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld toured a spruced-up military base here Monday and heard a Romanian government sales pitch for making it a new American outpost within easy reach of potential hot spots in the Middle East and Central Asia.
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BRUSSELS -- Nearly 2,000 NATO troops, including two &quot;rapid response&quot; battalions from Spain and Italy, began arriving in Afghanistan this week to strengthen the international military presence there in time for the Oct. 9 presidential election, NATO officials said.
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The commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Europe, Marine Corps Gen. James Jones, arrived Tuesday in Bulgaria to inspect military sites that could host American troops as part of a Pentagon plan to create new, ...
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A glance at the main elements of the Conventional Forces Treaty in Europe:
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Estonia on Tuesday reburied the remains of eight Soviet soldiers whose exhumation from a war grave had sparked deadly riots and infuriated neighboring Russia.The eight white caskets were lowered into new ground at the Defense Forces cemetery in a ceremony attended by Defense Minister Jaak Aaviksoo, foreign diplomats and World War II veterans.'We have fulfilled our duty and given these soldiers their final resting place,' Aaviksoo said after the hour-long ceremony. He said he hoped the reburial would prevent Russia from using the war grave issue in the future 'for provocations against the Republic of Estonia.' Read more
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Ohio Sen. Mike DeWine used his last hours in the Senate to eulogize 79 service members who died in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Welcome, Gen. David Petraeus, to this special meeting of the Senate travel club.
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For nearly a year, citizen soldiers from Ohio have been guarding the gates of Army and Air Force bases in the United Kingdom, Italy and Belgium.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld sought to build bridges with "old Europe" on Thursday, fondly recalling a vacation on the French Riviera and extolling the enduring importance of transatlantic ties.
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JACK Straw, the Foreign Secretary, visited the grave of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat yesterday at the end of a two-day trip to Israel and the West Bank to help revive the Middle East peace process.
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Senior EU officials visit Croatia and Serbia to discuss progress towards EU accession.
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A visitor to the cemetery in the town of Audincourt, south of Strasbourg, on Sunday found the graves defaced with the symbols from the German Nazi era.
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France ordered inquiries on Sunday into the desecration of two cemeteries, one Jewish and one Catholic. Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin condemned the incidents as scandalous and
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They are foreign enemies buried thousands of miles from home, but they are not forgotten. Less than a week after U.S. soldiers were honored during Veterans Day, dignitaries on Wednesday are to gather and salute the hundreds of thousands of German prisoners of war taken to camps in the United States during World War II &#151; most of them in the South.
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LONDON -- Senator John F. Kerry, concluding a trip to Europe and the Middle East, called yesterday for a broader international coalition to stabilize Iraq, fight terrorism, and breathe new life into the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
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CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts It is no secret that many European leaders preferred Senator John Kerry to President George W. Bush. Some observers, like Timothy Garton Ash of Oxford University, predicted that if