Gurkha veterans wage a determined battle to become British
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For two centuries, tens of thousands of men from the mountains of Nepal have been recruited by the British army, earning reputations worldwide as unusually tough and brave soldiers.
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BAZARAK, AfghanistanLike virtually every adult in this Panjshir Valley village, Rahmal Beg registered to vote weeks ago. Indeed, popular enthusiasm is so high for the Oct. 9 presidential election -- the first in Afghan history -- that thousands of people in the valley have reportedly...
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Life with the 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment in southern Afghanistan is a battle not only against a stealthy and stubborn enemy but against some of the earth&#039;s harshest natural elements.
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Bertie Ahern was challenged in the Dil this week by Sinn Fin's Caoimhghn Caolin about the fact that there are more British soldiers in the Six Counties than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
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A Belize-born British soldier on Wednesday launched a trade union for fellow soldiers from Commonwealth countries to fight what he described as racism within Britain's armed forces.
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The government is expected to announce improvements to the terms and conditions of Gurkhas in the British army.
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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.
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Out in the deserts of Afghanistan's Helmand province, young British troops are getting their first taste of combat in austere conditions, with air support sometimes a long time coming and trucks that are not roadworthy.
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Taking part in the Games is a triumph in itself for athletes who have dodged bullets, battled prejudice, and dreamed very hard to get here.
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Across India&#39;s northeast, in remote mountain villages and heavily forested hills, dozens of ethnic militant groups are waging war.
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Sir: I am a British Muslim citizen of Bangladeshi origin. My 19-year-old student son is in the London Regiment as an infantryman and now serving in Iraq.
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Afghanistan is &quot;not a failing mission&quot;, Defence Secretary Des Browne said as he tried to justify British involvement there amid rising casualties and strong Taliban resistance.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - Forced to wear yellow patches in the days of the Taliban, the homesick Sikhs of Afghanistan still hide in back alleys and yearn for India.
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India's top designers have taken up the challenge to produce clothing to protect soldiers deployed on the world's highest battlefield in the Himalayas, where cold claims more lives than combat.
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LONDON: 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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Naturalisation rules for Commonwealth troops serving in the armed forces who want to become British citizens are to be relaxed.
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Sikhs from all over the world have begun arriving in the holy city of Amritsar, northern India, to commemorate the 400th year of the Sikh holy book, the Guru Granth Sahib, on 1 September.