The current tensions have renewed focus on the whole U.S. missile defense program and we asked Nathan Hodge of Jane's Defense Weekly to come in and remind us what it's all about.

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The victim, who cannot be named, told the court how he was playing football with friends on the Birchwood estate when Nathan Booth approached him, asked for the time and then attacked him.

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Just a few stalls down, Nathan Raab of the Raab Collection in Philadelphia cheerfully asked me about my interest in American history (plentiful), and my collection of letters and documents (non-existent).

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