Today the US is planning to train Pakistani counter-insurgency forces.

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This has driven the United States to finance and train a new counter-narcotics battalion of the Colombian army.

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But Train and other environmentalists counter that the science of predicting environmental harm before it's too late is seldom absolute.

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Sir Ian was commissioner at Scotland Yard in 2005 when the 27-year-old Brazilian was mistaken for a suicide bomber and shot seven times by counter-terrorist officers on a Tube train.

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An EU mission to train Malian soldiers is due to begin as part of efforts to help the West African country counter an Islamist insurgency.

BBC: Mali crisis: EU troops begin training mission