Rovers boss Sam Allardyce labelled 32-year-old McCarthy "selfish" for missing training in an apparent effort to force through the move.

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Lesotho's prime minister, Pakalitha Mosisili, invited the invasion force in to save his government from an apparent coup.

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Flipping through the force's history, the breadth and scale of the incidents it has had to deal with is apparent.

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