US drops Africa military HQ plan
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The US decides to keep the base for its new Africa Command in Germany, after a lack of interest from nations.
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RABAT, Morocco -- A U.S. delegation seeking a home for a new military command in Africa got a chilly reception during a tour of the northern half of the continent this month, running into opposition even in countries that enjoy friendly relations with the Pentagon.
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The United  States withdrew its last 30 military personnel from Iceland on  Saturday as it shut a naval air base that in its Cold War  heyday was the sixth largest town in the island nation.
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WASHINGTON - The US army said it had suspended its decision to partially withhold payments to Halliburton, the biggest US contractor in Iraq.
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Somalia's interim government welcomed a U.S. proposal at the U.N. Security Council to deploy east African peacekeepers, but the newly powerful Islamists who have seized control of most of the country rejected it.
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WASHINGTON - After the Pentagon&#39;s national missile defense system failed a key test this week, the Bush administration has dropped its plans to activate the system by the end of the year.
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The drive towards forging a United States of Africa was running out of steam Wednesday as leaders filed away from a summit without agreeing on a timeline for creating a new government for the continent.
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush said yesterday that he had approved plans to create a US military command for Africa, a move that reflects increased US strategic interest in the continent.
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The launch of a new U.S. military command for Africa is aimed at helping the continent to boost its own security and not at projecting American power or countering Chinese influence, a U.S. official said on Monday.
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President Hamid Karzai scrapped a trip to a provincial capital in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday after a rocket hit near his helicopter landing site, the US military said.
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The White House has scrapped its  list of Iraq allies known as the 45-member "coalition of the  willing," which Washington used to back its argument that the  2003 invasion was a multilateral action, an official said on  Friday.
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The U.S. military used bases inside Ethiopia last month in a quiet campaign to capture or kill top al Qaeda leaders in the Horn of Africa, The New York Times reported on its Web site on Thursday, citing U.S. officials.
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The creation of the  Defense Department Africa Command, with responsibilities to promote security and government stability in the region, has heightened concerns among African countries and in the U.S. government over the militarization of U.S. foreign policy, according to a newly released study by...
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The White House is rejecting as premature a plan by two senior Republican senators to restrict the mission of U.S. troops in Iraq.
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By HIRAN RATNAYAKE, LEE WILLIAMS and STEVEN CHURCH / The News Journal. In a decision affecting American military personnel around the world, a federal judge in Washington, DC, ordered the Pentagon to halt the
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South Africa announced Sunday that it will temporarily stop exporting power to its neighbors.
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Peacekeepers are mostly from former African Union corps since president has blocked troops from elsewhere