When peace came, Philip remained in the navy, but rekindled a friendship with Elizabeth that quickly blossomed into a public romance.

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He said he had been drinking beer and whisky and went into the tent "for some peace" when the complainant came in, he said.

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He argued that if the minutes were published "cabinets are likely to be more cautious how they approach the matter in the cabinet setting" when it came to "war and peace decisions".

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Would he have considered them shallow when it came to weighty matters of war and peace?

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Cyprus came closest to a peace deal in 2004 when a U.N.

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And in fact, when we came into office, the Pakistanis had agreed to an ill-conceived peace agreement with the Pakistani Taliban that was consistently and persistently expanding their territorial reach.

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Israel's centrist opposition leader, Tzipi Livni insists that she came close to sealing a peace deal in 2008 with the Palestinians when she was foreign minister in the government replaced by Mr Netanyahu's coalition.

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