Second World War Gurkha hero heads to Britain
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A Nepali Gurkha who won Britain&#39;s highest military honour left Kathmandu for Britain on Tuesday after British officials  reversed a decision and allowed him to settle in the country.
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JERUSALEM The arrival in the Middle East of Arun Gandhi, preaching his grandfather Mahatma Gandhi&#39;s message of love, brotherhood and nonviolence to conflict-weary Israelis and Palestinians, has raised tentative hopes that the bloody conflict may be
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Former Nepalese-born Gurkha soldiers who helped defend Hong Kong under British rule are fuming at London&#39;s decision to exclude them from a new law giving the crack fighters British citizenship, a spokesman said Thursday.
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Pervez Musharraf arrived in Britain after having held talks with the US president George Bush in Washington over the weekend. The Prime Minister and General Musharraf are expected to discuss the war on terrorism
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The first train between India and Bangladesh in more than four decades makes its way from Calcutta to Dhaka.
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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 has said.
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Veterans of World War II are to re-enact their code-breaking heroics at Bletchley Park.
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WINNIPEG (CP) - As a Second World War spymaster, Sir William Stephenson was right at home with his life of secrecy and discretion.
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Britain announced a &quot;significant&quot; increase in pensions for Gurkha veterans following prolonged protests from the Nepalese veterans who fought alongside British troops in two world wars.
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Upraised noses, outstretched arms and a trip across the pond.
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A group of Indian families were headed for Pakistan on Friday to search for 54 men missing from the 1971 India-Pakistan war and try to solve what is one of the biggest wartime mysteries of South Asia.
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A grandmother who recently married Osama bin Laden&#39;s fourth-eldest son says he wants to visit Britain.
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Britain is to announce in the coming weeks whether it will extend full citizenship to Gurkha soldiers from Nepal serving in its armed forces, Prime Minister Tony Blair revealed.
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Jan Nowak-Jezioranski, the Polish  soldier who made death-defying trips between Warsaw and London  during the Second World War to carry messages to Poland's  government-in-exile, died in Warsaw late on Thursday.
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Hundreds of troops returning to the UK from Iraq and Afghanistan suffering from exposure to explosions
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Brig. Grismond "Gris" Davies-Scourfield, who won a Military Cross for his part in the Allied defense of Calais during World War II and later escaped from the Nazis holding him prisoner in the notorious Colditz Castle, has died at age 88.
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Gurkhas are to help evacuate British nationals from the trouble-hit west African country Ivory Coast.