President Bush has unequivocally demanded thatDamascus end its occupation of Lebanon by May.

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Babrak Babarkhale, a former journalist and Mujahadeen fighter in the war to end Soviet occupation in the 1980s, said he planned to vote for Abdullah because he was fed up with corruption.

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If Israel wants to end its occupation of south Lebanon, say the Lebanese, it must either risk a unilateral withdrawal without preconditions, or offer the Syrian government inducements to accept a negotiated peace.

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"Virtually every Iraqi with whom we met urged that there be no delay in bringing an end to the occupation, by 30 June at the latest, " he said.

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So as Estonia prepares to celebrate its coming of age this August, when it will mark 21 years since the end of the Soviet occupation, the country can look back at how far it has come, but face the future knowing that it has a lot still to prove.

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The University of Sussex has been granted an injunction to end a six-week occupation by students.

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Resistance against Dutch occupation was fierce and did not end, arguably, until 1903, some say a decade later.

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The Syrian presence helped end the war in 1990 and stabilise the country thereafter, with the occupation accepted by war-weary Lebanese as a price worth paying.

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So they end up pooling groups of people by such basic factors as age, occupation and postcode, which means that some low-risk customers are lumped in with risky ones and subsidise their cover.

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He called on the Palestinians under occupation to elect new leaders, starting with local elections by the end of this year.

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