Claude Choules, Britain's last living link to combat in World War I, died in his sleep last week at his nursing home in Fremantle.
Criminal complaints unsealed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in New Haven said the investigation began last year to combat narcotics trafficking and money-laundering in New London.
Those words mean something to me, as somebody who's been in combat: last resort.
Combat deaths last month were 86% lower than in May 2007, and General Petraeus has indicated that it is safe enough to begin withdrawing some troops from Iraq in the near future.
May has been a month of goodbyes in Australia - Claude Choules, the last living link to combat in World War I and the oldest Australian, the actor Bill Hunter, the Aboriginal world boxing champion Lionel Rose, the spin bowler and coach Terry Jenner.
Twenty-two years after the last U.S. combat troops left Vietnam, old psychic wounds still fester.
The appropriators proposed to reduce funding for the last remnant of the Future Combat System, a next-generation fighting vehicle, by about three quarters.
And Warrington also hammered Wigan 24-6 at the DW Stadium when the two sides last met in Super League combat back in March.
But I was also excited by the battle of ideas, and saw the height of ideological combat in the last years of the cold war as an exhilarating time to be alive and thinking.
Rep. KLINE: Well, there's no one that doubts that the women that are serving now in Iraq and Afghanistan and who have served for the last decade and more in combat theaters are exposed to hostile fire and to great danger and they're serving well and bravely.
Obama and NATO allies in Afghanistan recently announced that combat operations will now last until 2014.
Paul Sarbanes of Maryland, senior Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee and an author of last year's legislation to combat corporate fraud.
In recent months, some had criticized McKiernan for pressing too hard for more combat power, but last November he made it clear -- Afghanistan needed more attention.
World Bank lending to developing countries rose to a record high last year as it sought to combat the savage impact of Asia's financial and economic crisis on the poor.
Mustafa believes that his country let America down when its parliament failed to approve a bill last month that would have enabled American combat troops to use Turkish soil to launch attacks against Iraqi forces.
Chinese officials last month implemented a drastic plan to combat Beijing's persistent pollution problems, taking half of the city's more than 3 million vehicles off the road, temporarily closing factories and chemical plants, and suspending all construction work.
The lawsuit seeks to pry open one of the last pursuits still exclusively masculine, serving in combat.
It's only in the last several months that Shay has started counseling combat veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his Labor government were elected in a landslide victory last year on a campaign pledge to withdraw combat troops by mid-2008.
In fact, only last week two American Marines from the same combat team as the six who died yesterday were attacked and killed and that was part of a firefight in the same area near Hadithah--in a village near Hadithah in which there was an air strike eventually, and the US military said it killed nine insurgents.
Last year, we established a new unit to combat fraud and investigate the abusive lending and mortgage packaging that led to the housing crisis.
Although the proposal I released last week included a comprehensive set of initiatives to combat fraud, waste, and abuse, Senator Coburn had an interesting suggestion that we engage medical professionals to conduct random undercover investigations of health care providers that receive reimbursements from Medicare, Medicaid, and other Federal programs.
Petraeus recommended a 45-day "period of consolidation and evaluation" once the extra combat forces that President Bush ordered to Iraq last year have completed their pullout in July.
The Pentagon is dropping the last vestiges of rules barring American women from serving in combat, paving the way for the largest expansion ever of their role on the front lines.
He was last seen wearing a pair of silver training shoes, cream combat trousers and a light blue top.
That review, they said, likely will include looking anew at the analysis done last October on what it would take for a major ground combat offensive in Kosovo.
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At this time last year, there were only a handful of Iraqi battalions ready for combat.
Last year, European regulators said the bank was not doing enough to combat money laundering, while intrigue in the Vatican was revealed by documents leaked by Pope Benedict's butler.
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Meeting in Washington last week, the two leaders agreed to speed up a handover of combat operations in Afghanistan to Afghan forces, raising the prospect of an accelerated U.S. withdrawal from the country.
But with half of its 43 combat brigades deployed overseas and the remainder either recovering from their last tour of duty or preparing for the next deployment, the Army is finding that there is just not enough working equipment to go around.
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