Medals are being awarded to British veterans who served in the first Suez emergency after nearly 50 years, the UK prime minister has announced. Tony Blair confirmed the servicemen - sometimes called ...

Sixteen years earlier, King Frederick VI of Denmark had offered a gold medal to the first person to ... to observe orangutans in Indonesian Borneo. The three women, who became known as the ...

Depending on the economic and debt situation of each country, this relief could be a deferral of a portion of debt service payments for a number of years (a reprofiling or rescheduling), or, where the ...

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