UNITED KINGDOM - Prince Harry Iraq bound?
LONDON (Reuters): Britain's Prince Harry, an army officer and third in line to the throne, will receive training to prepare for deployment in Iraq, a newspaper said yesterday. Harry's regiment, the Blues and Royals, has been earmarked to serve...
LIBERIA - 'Iron Lady' on a high
MONROVIA (Reuters): At the height of Liberia's civil war a decade ago, as archetypal African strongmen tore the country to pieces, few could have imagined a woman taking over as president.
IRAQ - 16,000 unidentified dead
BAGHDAD (Reuters): The Baghdad morgue took in about 16,000 unidentified bodies last year, the bulk of them victims of death squads and other sectarian violence, a source at the morgue told Reuters yesterday.
UNITED STATES - Troops battle drinking, weight
WASHINGTON (Reuters): United States troops were fatter and drank harder in 2005 than before the Iraq war started, according to a Pentagon survey of more than 16,000 service members released on Friday.
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