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JERUSALEM - Israel has proposed freeing a leader of the Palestinian uprising if the United States releases Jonathan Pollard, the former Pentagon analyst convicted of spying for the Jewish state, Army Radio reported Sunday. ADVERTISEMENT What do you think will help the market most in...

Our knowledge about arms and armour of the Viking age (8th to 11th centuries Europe) is based on relatively sparse archaeological finds, pictorial representation, and to some extent on the accounts in the Icelandic sagas, recorded in the 13th century. The main weapons were the spear and the...

Trelleborg is a collective name for six Viking ring castles, located in Denmark and the southern part of modern Sweden. Five of them have been dated to the reign of the Harold Bluetooth of Denmark (d. 986). The fort in Borgeby has been dated to the vicinity of 1000 AD, so it is possible that it...

VANCOUVER (CP) - Canada's military mission in Afghanistan will be a testing ground for future leaders of the armed forces, entrenching a change that began at the end of the Cold War, says one of Canada's most celebrated soldiers. Retired major-general Lewis MacKenzie says despite public...

So with the last article about the JomsVikings. Does that mean that Vikings in general, the ones that pillaged and such and went on campaigns were they just what you consider mercenaries of today and would fight for other Viking forces or for Christian or Muslim forces if desired. Evidence of...

The Jomsvikings were a company of viking mercenaries of the 900s and 1000s, dedicated to the worship of such deities as Odin and Thor. Though staunchly pagan, they have been compared to the crusading orders of medieval Europe. However, they reputedly would fight for any lord able to pay their...

Vikings were a Norwegian, Icelandic, Danish and Swedish people who lived around the coasts of Scandinavia and raided the coasts of Scandinavia, the British Isles, and other parts of Europe from the late 8th century to the 11th century. This period of European history (generally dated to AD 793 -...

The naval Battle of Svolder or Swold took place on 9 September 1000 in the western Baltic Sea, between Norway and the other Scandinavians. The place cannot now be identified, as the formation of the Baltic coast has been much modified in the course of subsequent centuries, partly by the gradual...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - One of the world's most land mine-ridden nations sent a team of soldiers to Sudan on Saturday to clear mines laid in a 21-year civil war. ADVERTISEMENT Cambodia dispatched 109 troops to join 26 already in place for the nation's first U.N.-peacekeeping mission after its...

SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) - The Dalai Lama has arrived in San Francisco to join Muslim leaders from around the world in an unprecedented summit on quelling violent religious extremism. ADVERTISEMENT Tibet's spiritual leader came in response to a prominent California Imam's...

The purchase of billions of dollars of new equipment for the Canadian Forces is under review as military officers try to sort out what the country can afford and what the Conservative government sees as priorities. The big-ticket equipment projects, many put into motion last year by the Liberal...

OTTAWA -- The government and all three opposition parties have reached a backroom deal agreeing to quietly adopt Prime Minister Stephen Harper's first throne speech without a vote or even mention of a vote while rolling in opposition amendments and avoiding any hint of a confidence showdown...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has forbidden Canada's top military brass from speaking publicly for fear of detracting attention from his government's top priorities. A top military officer said the Prime Minister's Office recently told Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Rick Hillier his speaking...

The Sykes-Picot Agreement of May 16, 1916 was a secret understanding between the governments of Britain and France defining their respective spheres of post-World War I influence and control in the Middle East. The boundaries of this agreement still remain in much of the common border between...

Now as a soldier in the Canadian military, I can't go on an overseas mission or any contract across Canada I believe until I get training complete done next year. However, by next summer I should have the basic qualifications complete to go overseas on an overseas mission and have been talking...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CP) - With a mixture of anguish and admiration, a senior Canadian commander searched for ways to work more closely with Afghan authorities Saturday following a violent, bloody clash with Taliban fighters, which killed six local police officers and a teenage boy. The...

MONTREAL (CP) - The federal Liberals are wasting their time trying to persuade the New Democrats to form an alliance of so-called left-wing forces in an attempt to take power back from Stephen Harper's Conservatives, says NDP Leader Jack Layton. In an interview with a Montreal newspaper...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CP) - Canadian soldiers were patrolling villages southwest of Kandahar Saturday, looking for Taliban fighters who slipped away following a day-long battle. Senior coalition officers said the troops were looking for insurgents who may have been wounded during a coalition...

ORLANDO, Fla. - A DEA agent who accidentally shot himself in the foot while demonstrating gun safety to school children is suing the agency, saying video of the incident has made him the joke of the Internet. ADVERTISEMENT Lee Paige was making a presentation to children at the Orlando Youth...

I was just wondering, as a former seperatist in Canada, but this could apply anywhere in the world where a seperatist movement is going on. Does a seperatist deserve a second chance if he or she decides that seperatism isn't a good thing?? Especially if they were a young teenager when they were...