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The former head of the British Army has insisted there was a gun battle between the IRA and soldiers at Ballymurphy in 1971. General Sir Mike Jackson, 75, was a captain in the Parachute Regiment on deployment in Belfast at the time.
He described his role in August 1971 as community relations and press liaison. |
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Dear Baba, we’ve been needing to talk. We haven’t really had a chance to talk since you died, three years ago, and I thought today would be a good day. Of course you may be aware that mom … we had a conversation in January with mom – about me and about stuff in general. In April 2001, Baba, I had just come back from Cuba for spring break. |
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The sudden death on March 30 of the Very Rev. James Mathews, a longtime pastor at St. Benedict’s parish in East Oakland and former chaplain of the Oakland Police and Fire departments, shook the city to its core. Catholics and non-Catholics alike, from Mayor Libby Schaaf to ordinary people, poured.... |
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LEWISTON — Jack Armstrong should be the one receiving congratulations and well wishes. He also should be the one who is carefully guarding his time. But as he sits here at a bar table in the Brickyard Pub & BBQ, sipping from a chilled glass of Belgian ale and talking about the week ahead, he can’t help himself. |
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Within a few weeks of my arrival in North America, as a new bride, thanks to the contacts of my father Dr. V. Raghavan, I was invited by the Syracuse University and the Colgate University, both situated in upper New York State and renowned for their Music and Dance as well as Sanskrit study departments. |
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The Jonas Brothers were left surprised and speechless by their friend Miley Cyrus ’ question during a radio interview. The 26-year-old asked the brothers about their purity ring which they wore to symbolise their intention to stay virgins until marriage. |
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Brian Tamaki has been a vocal opponent of gay marriage and and LGBT equality in recent years, but now he is inviting the rainbow community into his church. Reportedly 50 members of the queer community have been invited to an upcoming Destiny Church conference, and offered the chance to address the congregation. |
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Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) has hired a Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) journalist as press officer for the newly elected vice president Everton Chimulirenji. Chimulirenji: Second-in command takes oath. Nyasa Times can reveal that Charles Wahara was appointed on Wednesday as Chimulirenji’s press officer. |
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The human voice is the most primal and pristine of musical instruments. When used well, and certainly when that happens in an a cappella choral format, the results can be nothing short of divine. Actually, epithets relating to the sphere of the sacred are entirely appropriate in the context of the.... |
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"While the majority of Hamiltonians did not learn of the invasion until they rose from bed this morning, there was a considerable number who heard the broadcast before resting and let their friends know this great news," the paper said. "The telephone in The Spectator offices jangled from 2 o'clock.... |
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Biologists crouched in the mud squint past their headlamps at the secretive marsh bird. They have tramped through tall cordgrass for two hours, trying to stir the creature up by shaking cans of bolts and metal pellets. A few hundred feet away, the stretch of Louisiana marshland gives way to the Gulf of Mexico. |
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