• President Mugabe has allocated the main ministries, including defence, home, foreign affairs, and justice to Zanu-PF.

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  • But discretionary outlays, including defence, are less than 40% of the total budget.

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  • Downing Street made the statement a day after two British officials -- including Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon -- said the British government would extradite bin Laden for trial in the United States only if assurances were given that he would not face the death penalty.

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  • The decision will, however, be a disappointment for European manufacturers behind the Eurofighter Typhoon, including British defence company BAE Systems, and to US-based Boeing, producer of the Super Hornet.

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  • Labour and Liberal Democrat members blocked an amendment by SNP MSP Michael Matheson to ensure that all evidence, including the defence case, is led before a trial can proceed in absence - despite this being recommended in the committee's Stage One report.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Scotland | Absent trials move is ruled out

  • Government agencies including those for defence and labour faced shutdown this weekend without the legislation.

    BBC: Obama signs key bill to fund federal government

  • After intense haggling over posts, the Northern Alliance controls more than half of the ministries, including the powerful defence, foreign and interior portfolios.

    CNN: Afghan factions sign power deal

  • They cover areas including Europe, defence security and foreign affairs, taxation and spending, health, crime and justice, energy and the environment and media and culture.

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  • Mr Luff spoke alongside senior officials and service personnel, including Chief of Defence Materiel Bernard Gray and Air Marshal Steve Hillier, deputy chief of defence staff, Ministry of Defence.

    BBC: Defence Committee

  • Senior Tories, including the former defence secretary Liam Fox, have accused the Lib Dems of sidetracking the government over Lords reform and have urged Mr Cameron to assert his authority on key issues like the economy, Europe and welfare.

    BBC: UK Politics

  • John Bumgarner analysed the data released for the Guardian newspaper and concluded that thousands of British email addresses and passwords - including those of defence, intelligence and police officials as well as politicians and Nato advisers - had been revealed.

    BBC: Call for cyberwar 'peacekeepers' force

  • But developers REG Windpower said other aviation bodies, including the Ministry of Defence, have not objected.

    BBC: Pilot worry at Bristol wind turbine plan

  • There are still a number of policy areas that are completely controlled by the British government, including constitutional affairs, defence, and foreign affairs.

    BBC: Democracy Live site links

  • The Scotland Act also specifies a range of "reserved matters" on which the Scottish Parliament cannot pass legislation, including foreign policy, defence and national security.

    BBC: Devolution in Scotland

  • And as the Hull defence - including 18-year-old Liam Cooper, making his Premier League debut - proceeded to fall apart, Liverpool began to run riot.

    BBC: Liverpool 6-1 Hull

  • In his report, Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell criticised Mr Fox for allowing Mr Werritty to attend certain meetings, including one with a defence contractor, without civil servants being present.

    BBC: 'Naive' Werritty admits mistakes over links to Liam Fox

  • In addition, he demanded the right to call scores of high-level witnesses in his defence, including former American president Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Britain's prime minister, Helmut Kohl, former Chancellor of Germany, Kofi Annan, the UN General Secretary, and Madeleine Albright, the former American secretary of state.

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  • The floods were a catalyst for major flood defence investment, including defences at Jaywick, Essex, which protected 2, 600 properties.

    BBC: Flooded street in King's Lynn

  • The University of Texas has expressed interest, and other suitors (including Lockheed Martin, a defence contractor) might join the fray.

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  • It owns and runs some British defence facilities, including the Devonport naval shipyard, provides logistical support and maintains submarines for the Royal Navy.

    ECONOMIST: The reconstruction business

  • And it said hitting future targets was dependent on achieving savings elsewhere in the defence budget, including in the reduction in the number of serving personnel and civilian staff.

    BBC: Defence equipment budget 'may be unaffordable'

  • That money has been used for a variety of purposes, including business promotion and installing flood defence barriers.

    BBC: Flood water running down a road in Hebden Bridge

  • Prominent Tory MPs including Environment Secretary Owen Paterson, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond and backbencher Stewart Jackson have said they cannot support gay marriage, and a number of MPs have signed the "Coalition for Marriage" petition opposing it.

    BBC: Gay marriage: Boris Johnson and Michael Gove give backing

  • Before sending the jury out, Judge Graham Cottle told them to consider every aspect of the case, including the complainants, who the defence team said may have spoken about their testimonies with each other before appearing in the witness box.

    BBC: Artist Graham Ovenden's indecency case jury retires

  • There may be votes on a couple of detailed points, including the retirement age of Ministry of Defence firefighters.

    BBC: Week ahead

  • Mr Bush's remarks came after meeting with security advisors, including Vice-President Dick Cheney, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

    BBC: NEWS | Americas | Bush rejects mother's Iraq plea

  • Mr Ely has since turned the chunk of statue into a piece of war relic art he hopes to sell to raise money for military charities and groups, including Birmingham's Royal Centre for Defence Medicine which treats wounded soldiers.

    BBC: Nigel Ely with the toppled statue

  • The army's high command, an 18-man body including the 75-year-old defence minister, Muhammad Tantawi, the chief of staff, Sami Enan, and the commanders of service branches, specialist corps and military regions, suspended the constitution, dissolved Egypt's parliament and assumed control.

    ECONOMIST: After Mubarak

  • Many (possibly including Robert Gates, America's defence secretary) agreed with an article by Fred Kaplan, a commentator, in Slate, an online magazine, last February suggesting that, although America had gained from having fighting allies in Afghanistan, it had been wrong to let NATO lead the mission.

    ECONOMIST: The future of NATO

  • Then if you add in the value of all of the tax, the benefits paid out, then add in again all of the government services (in the UK including health as well as education, defence and so on) the actual gap in consumption possibilities falls to about 6 to 1.

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