• In the programme, Professor Stone emphasised the urgent need for embedding of cultural property protection and awareness training for military personnel at all levels to avoid a repeat of what happened in Iraq during the war and subsequent occupation in 2003.

    UNESCO: Archaeologists in the frontline

  • 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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  • It is estimated the Nazis murdered 80, 000 people at Majdanek, three-quarters of them Jews, during the German occupation of Poland in World War II.

    BBC: 'Holocaust ashes' painting: Poland opens investigation

  • NATO's opening position is that it must lead and dominate a post-war occupation force in Kosovo, while Serbia (and its Russian friends) insist, for a start, that those who ran the air war would be the least suitable keepers of Kosovo's peace.

    ECONOMIST: No end in sight

  • You know, in the occupation in Kosovo at the end of the war, the U.S. troops were never in the majority in that operation.

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  • London (CNN) -- A Pablo Picasso painting given to the Greek people in recognition of their resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II has been stolen from the National Art Gallery in Athens.

    CNN: Picasso, Mondrian works stolen in Athens art heist

  • 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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  • Japan has for the first time marked the anniversary of the end of the allied occupation, which followed its defeat in World War II.

    BBC: Japan marks 'return of sovereignty' day

  • As a Jew in German-occupied France in the war, his chief occupation had been one of survival.

    ECONOMIST: Gilbert Trigano

  • It is important to note that such progress is being made on a far more accelerated schedule than our fathers were able to effect in their post-World War II occupation and reconstruction of Germany and Japan.

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  • The German occupation had destroyed trust between Frenchmen, and in post-war France loyalty was especially valued.

    ECONOMIST: Jacques Foccart

  • The man who symbolized France's resistance to Nazi occupation, he led the French government in exile during World War II and headed the first government after the Liberation.

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  • His reflections on the pogroms of Jews at the hands of their fellow Poles in Jedwabne under Nazi occupation and at Kielce after the war are piercingly well-judged.

    ECONOMIST: Poland's modern history

  • "He spoke in terms no American president has done before, " Aslan said, citing Obama's description of the invasion of Iraq as a war of choice, and the word "occupation" in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

    CNN: Obama draws questions, praise from Muslims

  • Allegations of impropriety in the awarding of contracts in the US, chaos at the occupation authority that ran post-war Iraq and large sums of Iraqi oil money disappearing apparently without any record of how it was spent.

    BBC: NEWS | Business | Baghdad's 'missing' billions

  • After surviving Japanese occupation during World War II, Hong Kong became by one reckoning the fastest-growing city in the world over the past 30 years.

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  • It is often said that there is no place like Puerto Rico, whose bitter war for independence against Spain ended in 1898 with an American invasion, whose occupation ushered in the American century but whose continued purgatory -- neither the 51st state, nor an independent country -- seems aberrant in the 21st.

    CNN: Hot new things to do in Puerto Rico

  • In this, as in other matters, it will need to look at the adequacy of plans made in the run-up to the war, the particular problems faced by UK forces in their areas of responsibility in the occupation and post-occupation phases, and the extent to which the UK acted in accord with its existing legal obligations.

    UNESCO: UK National Commission for UNESCO :: Destruction of Cultural Heritage should not be left out of Iraq Inquiry

  • Then it came the seven-month long Iraqi occupation of Kuwait that subsequently resulted in direct military intervention by U.S.-led forces in the Gulf War.

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  • Al-Sadr, widely popular in Iraq's Shiite heartland, opposes the U.S. occupation of Iraq and, during the war, his Mehdi Army militia has fought coalition and Iraqi forces.

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