Afghans have been the world's single largest group of refugees for 19 years in row, due to war, famine, drought and political repression, according to the UNHCR.
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He pointed out how violations of the truce were extremely rare in ancient times, whereas in recent years the games have been cancelled three times due to war.
She said that it included a tribute to the Guild of 1942, which was cancelled due to World War II.
Simon Calder, travel editor of the Independent, recently told this website that the way German tourism had failed to develop was an "extraordinary story" and mainly due to the war.
Observers have attributed this to "war fatigue" suffered by audiences due to an abundance of war-stories in the media.
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Long abandoned due to the raging war, it is literally a shell, a carcass that vultures would not bother picking at anymore.
But in September, Gates said the Pentagon would be unable to commit new troops before spring or summer of 2009, partly due to its larger commitment to the war in Iraq.
And if soldiers still have to be sent, the Air Force has a good story to tell now about how it will support and protect them (no hostile aircraft has managed to kill a U.S. soldier since the Korean War due to American control of the skies).
Soon their attacks brought the PSN down, but they officially called off the war due to the fact that it appeared they were hurting consumers more than the corporation.
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Clinton and Gore take credit for downsizing the federal government, but critics say much of the reduction was due to post-Cold War cuts in the military, not meaningful cuts in the bureaucracy.
Literacy rates are reportedly even lower for female youths (42%) and adults (26%) due to the combined effects of war, poverty and socio-cultural practices (e.g. early marriages and the general practice of educating the boy rather than the girl-child).
W. Bush promised restrained federal spending due to the end of the Cold War.
Mr. O'HANLON: Both parties have their national security credentials at the moment in jeopardy because the Republicans have been prosecuting a losing war, largely due to their own mistakes.
In general, as people cling ever more tightly to markers of elite status as a ticket to success, their actual cultural cachet is declining, due to everything from the atomizing forces of the Internet to the culture war and political gridlock.
The Israeli experience in 2006 was due primarily to a loss of traditional war-waging skills as a consequence of the protracted stability operation that the Israeli military had conducted in the Palestinian territory and the failure to recognize the need for a more traditional joint combined arms fire and maneuver approach.
As if the challenge of pulling a 320-ton boat wasn't enough to deal with, the production was plagued by heavy rains, casting problems -- lead actor Jason Robards had to be replaced by Klaus Kinski due to illness, while Mick Jagger dropped out due to a Rolling Stones concert -- and a border war that broke out between Peru and Ecuador.
However, in that case, the New York market had been closed since July due to the outbreak of the First World War.
Observers say the rivalry between the two women is largely due to unsettled issues over Bangladesh's war of independence and the assassinations that followed.
The Classic has taken place every year since 1776, except 1939, when the race was cancelled due to the outbreak of the Second World War.
History will, in due course, assign a name to the horrific war now in prospect.
Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld is due to cross Europe as the architect of the war in Iraq.
John de Coupland (male, age range: 12-16), a Page from Berwick Castle Garrison who has no real experience of the horrors of medieval war and hopes in due course to become a knight himself.
There is a longstanding practice in the joint force of maintaining weapons systems in-house rather than sending them back to the original manufacturers for support, but that practice was partially abandoned over the last ten years due to lack of capacity in federal facilities as war-related repairs ramped up.
Still, we're sure the standard will find a way to operate just fine, but unless a bidding war breaks out and the cost for mobile TV plummets due to all this competition, we're not really sure all these like-minded options are entirely necessary.
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But the Phoenix Business Journal said the event was moved from the convention center due to lackluster ticket sales and concern over anti-war protesters.
Mr Kerry's knowledge of French prompted scorn from the right-wing US press during his unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 2004, due to the souring of US-French ties over the war in Iraq.
The Scottish government said it expected to announce further details of the activities being planned to commemorate the centenary of World War I in due course.
No doubt, the immediate cause for the sudden rise in the price of oil and gasoline is fear of disruptions in the supply of oil due to unrest in the Middle East and the growing risk of war with Iran.
U.S. forces nicknamed northern Babil and surrounding areas the 'Triangle of Death' due to the amount of combat the area experienced earlier in the Iraq war.
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