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  • The EU flag hangs limply alongside the old German world Prussian eagle near the balcony of Frankfurt's Rathaus or Town hall in historic Romerberg Square. The yellow stars formed into a circle of the European Union member states lie on a background of blue but the bronze green eagle harks back to a previous era of German politics and culture. The state of Prussia developed from the State of the Teutonic Order. The original flag of the Teutonic Knights had been a black cross on a white flag. Emperor Frederick II in 1229 granted them the right to use the black Eagle of the Holy Roman Empire.[citation needed] This "Prussian Eagle" remained the coats of arms of the successive Prussian states until 1947.
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  • An EU flag and the Prussian Eagle sit side-by-side, on 16th May 2000, in Frankfurt, Germany. The EU flag hangs limply alongside the old German world Prussian eagle near the balcony of Frankfurts Rathaus or Town hall in historic Romerberg Square. The yellow stars formed into a circle of the European Union member states lie on a background of blue but the bronze green eagle harks back to a previous era of German politics and culture. The state of Prussia developed from the State of the Teutonic Order. The original flag of the Teutonic Knights had been a black cross on a white flag. Emperor Frederick II in 1229 granted them the right to use the black Eagle of the Holy Roman Empire.[citation needed] This Prussian Eagle remained the coats of arms of the successive Prussian states until 1947.
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  • As Prime Minister Theresa May negotiates further Britains exit from the European Union in Brussels, the EU flag and that of the Welsh, the Union Jack and the Scottish Saltair fly in a stiff breeze on College Green, as part of an anti-Brexit protest opposite the Houses of Parliament, on 7th February 2019, in Westminster, London England.
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  • As Prime Minister Theresa May negotiates further Britains exit from the European Union in Brussels, the UK parliament is seen through the yellow stars of the EU flag, flying as part of an anti-Brexit protest opposite the Houses of Parliament, on 7th February 2019, in Westminster, London England.
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  • As Prime Minister Theresa May negotiates further Britains exit from the European Union in Brussels, the UK parliament is seen through the yellow stars of the EU flag, flying as part of an anti-Brexit protest opposite the Houses of Parliament, on 7th February 2019, in Westminster, London England.
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  • As Prime Minister Theresa May negotiates further Britains exit from the European Union in Brussels, the EU flag and that of the Welsh, the Union Jack and the Scottish Saltair fly in a stiff breeze on College Green, as part of an anti-Brexit protest opposite the Houses of Parliament, on 7th February 2019, in Westminster, London England.
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  • Gregory David Clark is the Secretary of State for the Department for Communities and Local Government and a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tunbridge Wells since 2005. Between 15 July 2014 and 11 May 2015, he held the post of Minister for Universities, Science and Cities. Clark was previously Financial Secretary to the Treasury, the minister responsible for cities policy, and Minister of State in the Department for Communities and Local Government. He is described as an "economically liberal Conservative with a social conscience".
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  • Gregory David Clark is the Secretary of State for the Department for Communities and Local Government and a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tunbridge Wells since 2005. Between 15 July 2014 and 11 May 2015, he held the post of Minister for Universities, Science and Cities. Clark was previously Financial Secretary to the Treasury, the minister responsible for cities policy, and Minister of State in the Department for Communities and Local Government. He is described as an "economically liberal Conservative with a social conscience".
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  • Gregory David Clark is the Secretary of State for the Department for Communities and Local Government and a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tunbridge Wells since 2005. Between 15 July 2014 and 11 May 2015, he held the post of Minister for Universities, Science and Cities. Clark was previously Financial Secretary to the Treasury, the minister responsible for cities policy, and Minister of State in the Department for Communities and Local Government. He is described as an "economically liberal Conservative with a social conscience".
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  • Gregory David Clark is the Secretary of State for the Department for Communities and Local Government and a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tunbridge Wells since 2005. Between 15 July 2014 and 11 May 2015, he held the post of Minister for Universities, Science and Cities. Clark was previously Financial Secretary to the Treasury, the minister responsible for cities policy, and Minister of State in the Department for Communities and Local Government. He is described as an "economically liberal Conservative with a social conscience".
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  • Gregory David Clark is the Secretary of State for the Department for Communities and Local Government and a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tunbridge Wells since 2005. Between 15 July 2014 and 11 May 2015, he held the post of Minister for Universities, Science and Cities. Clark was previously Financial Secretary to the Treasury, the minister responsible for cities policy, and Minister of State in the Department for Communities and Local Government. He is described as an "economically liberal Conservative with a social conscience".
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  • Alongside the official portrait of a member of the Bahraini royal family, the smiling face of a blonde Dutch KLM airline girl adorns a poster in the airline's office in Bahrain airport. This European airline is showing the greatest of respect to the ruling classes in this Gulf State. Similar portraits of kings and princes are seen throughout the arab world, especially where business is being conducted and contracts being sought. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (KLM Royal Dutch Airlines), known by its initials KLM, is the flag carrier airline of the Netherlands. KLM's headquarters is in Amstelveen near its hub at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. KLM operates worldwide scheduled passenger and cargo services to more than 90 destinations. It is the oldest airline in the world still operating under its original name.
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  • Shadow Education Secretary Ed Balls during a rally and protest about the proposed cuts in the building of Schools at Methodist Hall, Westminster, London, UK. Ed Balls is a British Labour Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Normanton from 2005 to 2010 and for Morley and Outwood from 2010 to 2015. Balls was Chief Economic Advisor to the Treasury (1997-2004), Economic Secretary to the Treasury (2006-7) and served as Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families in Gordon Brown's Government from 2007 to 2010. He was the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time of his electoral defeat.
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  • Shadow Education Secretary Ed Balls during a rally and protest about the proposed cuts in the building of Schools at Methodist Hall, Westminster, London, UK. Ed Balls is a British Labour Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Normanton from 2005 to 2010 and for Morley and Outwood from 2010 to 2015. Balls was Chief Economic Advisor to the Treasury (1997-2004), Economic Secretary to the Treasury (2006-7) and served as Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families in Gordon Brown's Government from 2007 to 2010. He was the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time of his electoral defeat.
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  • Shadow Education Secretary Ed Balls during a rally and protest about the proposed cuts in the building of Schools at Methodist Hall, Westminster, London, UK. Ed Balls is a British Labour Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Normanton from 2005 to 2010 and for Morley and Outwood from 2010 to 2015. Balls was Chief Economic Advisor to the Treasury (1997-2004), Economic Secretary to the Treasury (2006-7) and served as Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families in Gordon Brown's Government from 2007 to 2010. He was the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time of his electoral defeat.
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  • Shadow Education Secretary Ed Balls during a rally and protest about the proposed cuts in the building of Schools at Methodist Hall, Westminster, London, UK. Ed Balls is a British Labour Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Normanton from 2005 to 2010 and for Morley and Outwood from 2010 to 2015. Balls was Chief Economic Advisor to the Treasury (1997-2004), Economic Secretary to the Treasury (2006-7) and served as Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families in Gordon Brown's Government from 2007 to 2010. He was the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time of his electoral defeat.
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  • Shadow Education Secretary Ed Balls during a rally and protest about the proposed cuts in the building of Schools at Methodist Hall, Westminster, London, UK. Ed Balls is a British Labour Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Normanton from 2005 to 2010 and for Morley and Outwood from 2010 to 2015. Balls was Chief Economic Advisor to the Treasury (1997-2004), Economic Secretary to the Treasury (2006-7) and served as Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families in Gordon Brown's Government from 2007 to 2010. He was the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time of his electoral defeat.
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  • Shadow Education Secretary Ed Balls during a rally and protest about the proposed cuts in the building of Schools at Methodist Hall, Westminster, London, UK. Ed Balls is a British Labour Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Normanton from 2005 to 2010 and for Morley and Outwood from 2010 to 2015. Balls was Chief Economic Advisor to the Treasury (1997-2004), Economic Secretary to the Treasury (2006-7) and served as Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families in Gordon Brown's Government from 2007 to 2010. He was the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time of his electoral defeat.
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  • Member of the RAF Regiment stands guard. Royal procession for the State Opening of Parliament, London.
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  • Life Guards pass as a member of the RAF Regiment stands guard. Royal procession for the State Opening of Parliament, London. This procession takes Queen Elizabeth to parliament to deliver the Queen's Speech.
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  • Horse drawn coach approaches as a member of the RAF Regiment stands guard. Royal procession for the State Opening of Parliament, London. This procession takes Queen Elizabeth to parliament to deliver the Queen's Speech.
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  • The Blues and Royals approach as a member of the RAF Regiment stands guard. Royal procession for the State Opening of Parliament, London. This procession takes Queen Elizabeth to parliament to deliver the Queen's Speech.
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  • A member of the House of Lords speaks to a group of members of the public at a rally against the against the government section 75 privatization regulations which they believe will force the National Health Service into privatization.
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  • Climate change activists from Extinction Rebellion in the seaside town of Camborne in Cornwall social distancing protesting outside the offices of George Eustice as they believe he does not have the rural communities interests at heart on the 30th of May 2020 in Camborne, United Kingdom. Mr Eustice is the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has appointed Cornish MP George Eustice, a pro-Brexit former farming minister, as new Environment Secretary. Eustice has been described as a 'real countryman' but has a patchy voting record on climate action. He has been given the role after working as a junior minister in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, DEFRA since 2015.
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  • Climate change activists from Extinction Rebellion in the seaside town of Camborne in Cornwall social distancing protesting outside the offices of George Eustice as they believe he does not have the rural communities interests at heart on the 30th of May 2020 in Camborne, United Kingdom. Mr Eustice is the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has appointed Cornish MP George Eustice, a pro-Brexit former farming minister, as new Environment Secretary. Eustice has been described as a 'real countryman' but has a patchy voting record on climate action. He has been given the role after working as a junior minister in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, DEFRA since 2015.
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  • Climate change activists from Extinction Rebellion in the seaside town of Camborne in Cornwall social distancing protesting outside the offices of George Eustice as they believe he does not have the rural communities interests at heart on the 30th of May 2020 in Camborne, United Kingdom. Mr Eustice is the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has appointed Cornish MP George Eustice, a pro-Brexit former farming minister, as new Environment Secretary. Eustice has been described as a 'real countryman' but has a patchy voting record on climate action. He has been given the role after working as a junior minister in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, DEFRA since 2015.
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  • Climate change activists from Extinction Rebellion in the seaside town of Camborne in Cornwall social distancing protesting outside the offices of George Eustice as they believe he does not have the rural communities interests at heart on the 30th of May 2020 in Camborne, United Kingdom. Mr Eustice is the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has appointed Cornish MP George Eustice, a pro-Brexit former farming minister, as new Environment Secretary. Eustice has been described as a 'real countryman' but has a patchy voting record on climate action. He has been given the role after working as a junior minister in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, DEFRA since 2015.
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  • Amber Rudd MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, gives an interview to the media on the day that Conservative Party MPs triggered a vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister on 12th December 2018 in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Amber Rudd MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, gives an interview to the media on the day that Conservative Party MPs triggered a vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister on 12th December 2018 in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Amber Rudd MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, gives an interview to the media on the day that Conservative Party MPs triggered a vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister on 12th December 2018 in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Oliver Dowden, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, is pictured walking towards Parliament on 12 November 2020 in London, United Kingdom. Oliver Dowden announced today that the UK will have an extra Bank Holiday in June 2022 to commemorate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.
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  • Climate change activists from Extinction Rebellion in the seaside town of Camborne in Cornwall social distancing protesting outside the offices of George Eustice as they believe he does not have the rural communities interests at heart on the 30th of May 2020 in Camborne, United Kingdom. Mr Eustice is the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has appointed Cornish MP George Eustice, a pro-Brexit former farming minister, as new Environment Secretary. Eustice has been described as a 'real countryman' but has a patchy voting record on climate action. He has been given the role after working as a junior minister in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, DEFRA since 2015.
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  • Climate change activists from Extinction Rebellion in the seaside town of Camborne in Cornwall social distancing protesting outside the offices of George Eustice as they believe he does not have the rural communities interests at heart on the 30th of May 2020 in Camborne, United Kingdom. Mr Eustice is the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has appointed Cornish MP George Eustice, a pro-Brexit former farming minister, as new Environment Secretary. Eustice has been described as a 'real countryman' but has a patchy voting record on climate action. He has been given the role after working as a junior minister in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, DEFRA since 2015.
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  • Claire Perry MP, Minister of State for Energy and Clean Growth speaks during a television interview about Brexit outside the Houses of Parliament in London,, UK on January 15, 2019
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  • Amber Rudd MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, gives an interview to the media on the day that Conservative Party MPs triggered a vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister on 12th December 2018 in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Amber Rudd MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, gives an interview to the media on the day that Conservative Party MPs triggered a vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister on 12th December 2018 in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Amber Rudd MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, gives an interview to the media on the day that Conservative Party MPs triggered a vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister on 12th December 2018 in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Amber Rudd MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, gives an interview to the media on the day that Conservative Party MPs triggered a vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister on 12th December 2018 in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Amber Rudd MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, gives an interview to the media on the day that Conservative Party MPs triggered a vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister on 12th December 2018 in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Amber Rudd MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, gives an interview to the media on the day that Conservative Party MPs triggered a vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister on 12th December 2018 in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • The flight-deck crew of a Sri Lankan Airlines A340-300 series Airbus - registration number 4R-ADE - perform a series of pre-flight checks before a scheduled departure, while on the apron at Malé international airport in the Republic of the Maldives. Featuring electronic instruments it is known as a 'glass cockpit' and using a printed checklist manual, they methodically work through dozens of complex systems that require accurate input before the aircraft is ready for take off. Flight navigation computers, fuel and engine settings and radio frequencies all need programming by the two pilots, the captain on the left and the First Officer on the right. These modern airliners have only two pilots in a modern flight-deck as technology superceeded the need for a third member, the flight-engineers of a previous era of aviation.
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  • British Labour peer, Lord Ahmed of Rotherham dances with local women and children in a compound of the governor of north Darfur, Osman Mohammed Yousef Kibir at Al Fashir, Sudan. Nazir, Baron Ahmed (born 1958) is a member of the House of Lords, having become the United Kingdom's first Muslim life peer in 1998 and is in this war-torn province of Sudan to attend the first-ever international Conference on Womens' Challenge in Darfur, hosted by the governor in his own compound. The Sudanese Women General Union has 27,000 branches all over Sudan, including Darfur. They have representatives in all rural villages, across communities of around 80 tribes and clans. The women of Sudan are wives, mothers, farmers a real force and historically, there have been female leaders.
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  • As Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Andrea Leadsome MP arrives at the Cabinet Office on Whitehall, the location of daily Brexit contingency planning meetings codenamed Yellowhammer, in government departments, on 19th August 2019, in London, England.
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  • As Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Andrea Leadsome MP arrives at the Cabinet Office on Whitehall, the location of daily Brexit contingency planning meetings codenamed Yellowhammer, in government departments, on 19th August 2019, in London, England.
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  • Michael Gove MP, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice. Speaking at the Howard League for Penal reform AGM held at the Kings fund. 4th November 2015.
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  • Michael Gove MP, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice. Speaking at the Howard League for Penal reform AGM held at the Kings fund. 4th November 2015.
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  • Michael Gove MP, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice. Speaking at the Howard League for Penal reform AGM held at the Kings fund. 4th November 2015.
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  • Michael Gove MP, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice. Speaking at the Howard League for Penal reform AGM held at the Kings fund. 4th November 2015.
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  • Michael Gove MP, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice. Speaking at the Howard League for Penal reform AGM held at the Kings fund. 4th November 2015.
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  • Michael Gove MP, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice. Speaking at the Howard League for Penal reform AGM held at the Kings fund. 4th November 2015.
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  • Michael Gove MP, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice. Speaking at the Howard League for Penal reform AGM held at the Kings fund. 4th November 2015.
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  • Michael Gove MP, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice. Speaking at the Howard League for Penal reform AGM held at the Kings fund. 4th November 2015.
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  • Michael Gove MP, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice. Speaking at the Howard League for Penal reform AGM held at the Kings fund. 4th November 2015.
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  • Czech war veterans gather at Brookwood cemetery when their president of the day, the once political dissident Vaclav Havel paid his respects to those nationals who paid the ultimate price during the second world war. The elderly heroes wearing medals and awards from their service during the 20th century war line up before their new president appears during his state visit to the UK.
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  • Czech war veterans gather at Brookwood cemetery when their president of the day, the once political dissident Vaclav Havel paid his respects to those nationals who paid the ultimate price during the second world war. The elderly heroes wearing medals and awards from their service during the 20th century war line up before their new president appears during his state visit to the UK.
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  • A lone male figure makes his way along a corridor of power in the newly-opened European Parliament building in Brussels, Belgium. As the new head-quarters of the EU and an administrative home to the Members of European Parliament (MEPs), it is a contemporary architectural symbol of infuence and modernity. We see the man walking towards an open atrium. The viewer can see three floors though there are many more out of sight and on two of the levels there are TV screens with the stars denoting the number of member states at that time. The interior is grid-like with warm and inviting lighting, making for a productive environment in which office workers can feel comfortable when dealing with European political business.
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  • Standing on weathered concrete at an old launchpad from a bygone age, space tourists stop to photograph the current Ariane 5 launchpad while on a tour of the European Space Agency at Kourou, French Guiana. They are mostly Japanese, representing their B-SAT communications satellite which is to be sent into orbit later that night alongside a US-made Hughes Corporation and Lockheed Martin technology. An American NASA space technician walks past the four Japanese as they hold cameras that record their souvenirs of a memorable day at this space facility deep in the South American rainforest. The orange bags carried by all are gas masks. Should the out of sight rocket booster explode or leak liguid propellant, dangerous fumes might overcome the visitors.
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  • In a sterile clean room, one module section of the European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) called Jules Verne, is under construction by technicians of an integration team at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The ATV cargo carrier is the world's largest and most complex orbiting spacecraft and is a new series of autonomous spaceships designed to re-supply the International Space Station with replacement cargo, propellant, water and oxygen to the orbital outpost. Launched in March 2008 and self-destructed with waste during its return to earth's atmosphere that September, it delivered 4.6 tonnes of payload to the ISS, including 1,150 kg of dry cargo, 856 kg of propellant for the Russian Zvezda module, 270 kg of drinking water and 21 kg of oxygen.
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  • A full-scale mock-up of a multinational 50.5 meter-high European Space Agency's (ESA) Ariane 5 rocket is lit by floodlights in an early tropical evening at the main entrance to Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, French Guiana, South America. Glowing orange by the warm lighting, it makes an impressive model against the fading equatorial sky. Seen in scale, a lone human figure stands at the foot of the launcher that in reality, sends massive 8,000 kg payloads into orbit for a variety of communications and International Space Station purposes. Powered by Snecma-made Vulcain engines and boosted by Europropulsion solid motors, these rockets are launched from this facility on the Guiana coast. The building to the left are the CNES offices belong to the French Space Agency.
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  • Striped covers for electrical cables turn a right-angle turn to the left towards power cabinets  which are numbered 1 to 6 at the European Space Agency's Europropulsion Ariane 5 rocket Booster Integration Building. Railings ensure that pedestrians keep to the  walkways without endangering health and safety, according to EU law. Elsewhere in this giant building the boosters that propel ESA rockets into space are integrated with their payloads.
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  • Hours before a European Space Agency Ariane 5 rocket launch, a computer monitor displays cryogenic data at the CDL3 launch centre at ESA's Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana. It shows the status of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen propellant systems within a Vulcain engine. Stored in the launcher tanks and fed to the engine, they react chemically and expand in the engine combustion chamber then forced through the nozzle to provide the thrust that propels the vehicle into orbit. Cryogenic engines utilise propellants that are liquid under cryogenic conditions, at a temperature much lower than normal ambient conditions (-251°C for hydrogen and -184°C for oxygen). The advantage of cryogenic propellants is that they provide the highest thrust performance.
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  • The flags of EU member states above speaking delegates in the European Parliaments new headquarters of the EU and an administrative home to the Members of European Parliament MEPs, at the time of its opening, on 16th October 1993, in Brussels, Belgium.
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  • An EU flag is waved in front of the British parliament as the British government debated US President Donald Trumps state visit to the UK, thousands of protesters gathered in large numbers against the trip which would potentially cost millions of Pounds in security alone, on 20th February 2017, in Parliament Square, London, UK. The visit comes after two online petitions received more than the 100,000 signatures required for such a debate to be considered in Parliament. A petition against the state visit got 1.85m signatures, while one supporting it got 311,000. Campaigners protested against the hatred, racism and division that Donald Trump is trying to create. Prime Minister Theresa May announced the state visit during her visit to Washington in January.
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  • An EU flag is waved in front of the British parliament as the British government debated US President Donald Trumps state visit to the UK, thousands of protesters gathered in large numbers against the trip which would potentially cost millions of Pounds in security alone, on 20th February 2017, in Parliament Square, London, UK. The visit comes after two online petitions received more than the 100,000 signatures required for such a debate to be considered in Parliament. A petition against the state visit got 1.85m signatures, while one supporting it got 311,000. Campaigners protested against the hatred, racism and division that Donald Trump is trying to create. Prime Minister Theresa May announced the state visit during her visit to Washington in January.
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  • Family members shave the boys head and the hair is caught in a white cloth held by their parents at a Shinbyu Novice Ceremony on 28th March 2016 in the Intha ethnic minority village of Paya Ny in Kayah State, Myanmar. In Myanmar, it is customary for boys to enter the monastery as a Buddhist novice between the age of ten and 20 years old although they can be as young as four, for at least one week. During the ceremony, which lasts two or sometimes three days, the boys are dressed and made-up to be a prince and paraded through the village before being ordained as novice monks.  head and the hair is caught in a white cloth held by their parents. at a Shinbyu Novice Ceremony on 28th March 2016 in the Intha ethnic minority village of Paya Ny in Kayah State, Myanmar. In Myanmar, it is customary for boys to enter the monastery as a Buddhist novice between the age of ten and 20 years old although they can be as young as four, for at least one week. During the ceremony, which lasts two or sometimes three days, the boys are dressed and made-up to be a prince and paraded through the village before being ordained as novice monks.
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  • Family members shave the boys head and the hair is caught in a white cloth held by their parents at a Shinbyu Novice Ceremony on 28th March 2016 in the Intha ethnic minority village of Paya Ny in Kayah State, Myanmar. In Myanmar, it is customary for boys to enter the monastery as a Buddhist novice between the age of ten and 20 years old although they can be as young as four, for at least one week. During the ceremony, which lasts two or sometimes three days, the boys are dressed and made-up to be a prince and paraded through the village before being ordained as novice monks.  head and the hair is caught in a white cloth held by their parents. at a Shinbyu Novice Ceremony on 28th March 2016 in the Intha ethnic minority village of Paya Ny in Kayah State, Myanmar. In Myanmar, it is customary for boys to enter the monastery as a Buddhist novice between the age of ten and 20 years old although they can be as young as four, for at least one week. During the ceremony, which lasts two or sometimes three days, the boys are dressed and made-up to be a prince and paraded through the village before being ordained as novice monks.
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  • A member of the maintenance department concretes between paving slabs using a trowel, Newby Hall estate and gardens, Ripon, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • Staff members man the phone lines for overseas clients during Christie's very first mainland China auction in Shanghai, China September 27,  2013. Both Southeby's and Christie's have opened an office in Mainland China in the past year, however they face overwhelming odds as China's state-owned auction houses such as Poly and Jiamu enjoys a near monopoly over China's art procurement market as foreigners are not allowed to buy vaguely defined "historical" art.
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  • A detail of 1990s technology at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading, UK. ECMWF  is an international organisation supported by 31 States, its role is “to provide monthly and seasonal-to-interannual forecasts; to deliver real-time analyses and forecasts of atmospheric composition; to carry out climate monitoring through regular re-analyses of the Earth-system and to contribute towards the optimization of the Global Observing System.”
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  • Deep below-decks, we see the highly-classified Conflict Direction Center or War Room on the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman during its deployment patrol of the no-fly zone at an unknown location in the Persian Gulf. This top secret office is used for planning and executing sophisticated tactical electronic warfare that fighter jets and surveillance aircraft engage in from air operations mounted from the carrier. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of 5,137, 650 are women. The Iraqi no-fly zones (NFZs) were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom and France after the Gulf War of 1991 to protect humanitarian operations in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the south.
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  • The below-deck highly classified Conflict Direction Center or War Room on the aircraft carrier US Navy USS Harry S Truman. This top secret office is used for planning and executing sophisticated tactical electronic warfare that fighter jets and surveillance aircraft engage in from air operations mounted from the carrier. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000-ton floating city with a crew of 5,137, 650 are women. The Iraqi no-fly zones (NFZs) were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom and France after the Gulf War of 1991 to protect humanitarian operations in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the south. Iraqi aircraft were forbidden from flying inside the zones. The policy was enforced by US, UK and French aircraft patrols until France withdrew in 1998.
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  • A US Navy dentist and technician inspects the mouth of a sailor below deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman. Launched on 7 September 1996 and costing US$4.5 billion, the Truman (CVN-75) is the eighth Nimitz-class supercarrier of the United States Navy, named after the 33rd President of the United States, Harry S. Truman. The Truman is the largest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of 5,137, 650 are women.
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  • Deep below-decks, we peer through a striped window of the highly-classified Conflict Direction Center or War Room on the aircraft carrier US Navy USS Harry S Truman during its deployment patrol of the no-flyzone in the Persian Gulf, near the Kuwaiti coast. This top secret office is used for planning and executing sophisticated tactical electronic warfare that fighter jets and surveillance aircraft engage in from air operations mounted from the carrier. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of 5,137, 650 are women. The Iraqi no-fly zones (NFZs) were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom and France after the Gulf War of 1991 to protect humanitarian operations in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the south. Iraqi aircraft were forbidden from flying inside the zones. The policy was enforced by US, UK and French aircraft patrols until France withdrew in 1998.
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  • Using a specially-designed trolley, we look down from above on two US Navy crew members transporting smart weapon armaments across the deck of the aircraft carrier US Navy USS Harry S Truman during its deployment patrol of the no-flyzone in the Persian Gulf, near the Kuwaiti coast. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of  5,137, 650 are women.  The Iraqi no-fly zones (NFZs) were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom and France after the Gulf War of 1991 to protect humanitarian operations in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the south. Iraqi aircraft were forbidden from flying inside the zones. The policy was enforced by US, UK and French aircraft patrols until France withdrew in 1998.
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  • A female member of a United Airlines crew flight attendant, nears the top of an escalator at the Chicago O'Hare airport terminal, USA. Holding the wheelie case with one hand, it stands upright on the travelator, ready to be pulled along the floor to the departure gate. A family picture of a little girl smiles out from behind a plastic protective sleeve - a clue that the woman's daughter might be waiting for her mother to return home safely after the next flight.
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  • Members of the Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery fire a 41 gun salute in Green Park London, United Kingdom on 14th October, 2019 to mark Queen Elizebeth II arrival at the Palace of Westminster. The Queens speech is expected to announce plans to end the free movement of EU citizens to the UK after Brexit, new laws on crime, health and the environment.
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  • Staff members man the phone lines for overseas clients during Christie's very first mainland China auction in Shanghai, China September 27,  2013. Both Southeby's and Christie's have opened an office in Mainland China in the past year, however they face overwhelming odds as China's state-owned auction houses such as Poly and Jiamu enjoys a near monopoly over China's art procurement market as foreigners are not allowed to buy vaguely defined "historical" art.
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  • A detail of a computerized weather chart showing atmospheric pressure isobars across western Europe on 16/9/91 at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading, UK. ECMWF  is an international organisation supported by 31 States, based in England, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Portugal, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom. Its role is “to provide monthly and seasonal-to-interannual forecasts; to deliver real-time analyses and forecasts of atmospheric composition; to carry out climate monitoring through regular re-analyses of the Earth-system and to contribute towards the optimization of the Global Observing System.” Source: http://www.ecmwf.int/
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  • Two US Navy sailors carefully fold the nation's on an upper deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman. Launched on 7 September 1996 and costing US$4.5 billion, the Truman (CVN-75) is the eighth Nimitz-class supercarrier of the United States Navy, named after the 33rd President of the United States, Harry S. Truman. The Truman is the largest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of 5,137, 650 are women.
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  • The Monday morning following the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11th we see members of the National Guard wearing dust masks standing beneath the high columns of the Federal Hall, located at 26 Wall Street in New York City. It was the first capitol of the United States of America and the site of George Washington's first inauguration in 1789. It is also the place where the United States Bill of Rights was passed. To celebrate the near-return to financial normality, New Yorkers' spirit was proved intact by the hanging of US flags from buildings. Days after the historical events, security was prominent at all nationally symbolic institutions and buildings. As a show of force, it was also a clear deterrent for would-be criminals when New Yorkers felt vulnerable to further attack.
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  • The outer wall and watchtower on Genzlerstrasse of the notorious secret police (Stasi) Hohenschonhausen prison. The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial is now a museum and memorial located in Berlin's north-eastern Lichtenberg district. Hohenschönhausen was a very important part of the Socialist GDR's (German Democratic Republic) system of political and artistic oppression. Although torture (including Chinese water torture) and physical violence were commonly employed at Hohenschönhausen (especially in the 1950s), psychological intimidation was the main method of political repression and techniques including sleep deprivation, total isolation, threats to friends and family members.Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 people in an effort to root out the class enemy.
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  • Leaping into the air all together are young members of the Donegal High School football cheerleaders squad in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania. On a Saturday afternoon as their team called the Braves take a break during their inter-school match, the young ladies wearing matching Irish-green colours leap in free manoeuvre on the instructions of their trainer. They have left their pom-poms on the grass and we see the rest of the sports-loving crowd in the bleachers on the far side of the pitch. Some choose to do mid-air leg splits, some a rather unelaborate twist and of some we only see arms merging with other bodies while others barely make it off the ground, such is their poor timing but there is generally lots of effort and energy in this brief spontaneous moment.
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  • The Monday morning following the attacks on September 11th we see a member of the National Guard wearing a dust mask while standing with his German Shepherd Alsatian dog beneath the high columns of the Federal Hall, located in Wall Street. It was the first capitol of the United States of America and the site of George Washington's first inauguration in 1789 whose statue stands above. It is also the place where the United States Bill of Rights was passed. To celebrate the near-return to financial normality, New Yorkers' spirit was proved intact by the hanging of US flags from buildings. Days after the historical events, security was prominent at all nationally symbolic institutions and buildings. As a show of force, it was also a clear deterrent for would-be criminals when New Yorkers felt vulnerable to further attack.
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  • Minister of State for Health and Conservative MP, Virginia Bottomley at the Conservative party conference on 11th October 1991 in Blackpool, England. Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell Bottomley, Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone, PC, DL née Garnett, born 12 March 1948 is a British Conservative Party politician. She was a Member of Parliament MP in the House of Commons from 1984 to 2005. She was raised to the peerage in 2005.
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  • Minister of State for Health and Conservative MP, Virginia Bottomley at the Conservative party conference on 11th October 1991 in Blackpool, England. Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell Bottomley, Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone, PC, DL née Garnett, born 12 March 1948 is a British Conservative Party politician. She was a Member of Parliament MP in the House of Commons from 1984 to 2005. She was raised to the peerage in 2005.
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  • Minister of State for Health and Conservative MP, Virginia Bottomley at the Conservative party conference on 11th October 1990 in Blackpool, England. Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell Bottomley, Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone, PC, DL née Garnett, born 12 March 1948 is a British Conservative Party politician. She was a Member of Parliament MP in the House of Commons from 1984 to 2005. She was raised to the peerage in 2005.
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  • Minister of State for Local Government and Conservative MP, Michael Portillo at the Conservative party conference on 11th October 1990 in Blackpool, England. Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo b 1953 is a British journalist, broadcaster, and former Member of Parliament, Deputy Conservative Party leader and Cabinet Minister.
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  • An elderly Hungarian woman pauses to count her Forints and Fillér change, the national currency. She stands at the top of stairs near a well-lit window in the market which the largest indoor market in the Hungarian capital and is where this lady and many other market traders converge on every weekday morning to sell their own produce. The flower and herb woman has a lined face suggesting she has had a hard life under a Communist regime. She still wears a traditional Hungarian covered head favoured by older people in rural communities but is now dying out as headwear for a younger generation. The forint is the only currency once used by a socialist European state that is still in circulation. As a member of the European Union, the long term aim of the Hungarian government is to replace the forint with the euro.
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  • Lying horizontal in a Budapest scrap yard are two Communist-era statues that were toppled along with the fall of the Hungarian Socialist state in March 1990. In the foreground is the statue of the once-hated Hungarian local Communist Ferenc Munnich who participated in the 1956 Hungarian revolution, then a member of the ‘Revolutionary Worker-Peasant Government’, the Workers’ Militia and then defence minister and earning himself the Order of Lenin in 1967. After Hungary’s transition to a democracy, he has been dumped horizontally on a wooden frame, sliced off its original plinth at the feet and painted red, awaiting its fate. In fact this statue is now located in the theme park called Szoborpark (Statue Park) in the south of the city where he shares a political tourist landscape of 42 pieces of art from the Communist era between 1945 and 1989.
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  • A member of the Neturei Karta demonstrates how he was punched to a community police officer as they were stopped trying to burn the Israeli flag in Stamford Hill, London during the festival of Purim. The Neturiei Karta oppose Zionism and believe that Jews are forbidden to have their own state until the coming of the Messiah.
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  • An activist from Black Lives Matter asks a member of Slough Youth Parliament why the local MP Tan Dhesi was not attending a peaceful protest in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement on 13th June 2020 in Salt Hill Park in Slough, United Kingdom. Protests in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement have taken place across the United States and in many countries around the world.
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  • A member of Slough Youth Parliament addresses local people taking part in a peaceful protest in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement on 13th June 2020 in Salt Hill Park in Slough, United Kingdom. Protests in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement have taken place across the United States and in many countries around the world.
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  • Protesters from War on Want stage a demonstration outside the governments Department for International Trade building in London, England, United Kingdom on 6th February 2018, calling on Members of Parliament MPs to demand the parliamentary scrutiny of trade deals. Protesters hold signs stating people’s constituencies to demonstrate the geographical diversity of the protest.
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  • Detail of stealth technology surfaces on a Lockheed-Martin F-35 II Joint Strike Fighter at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, fifth-generation multirole fighters under development to perform ground attack, reconnaissance, and air defense missions with stealth capability. F-35 JSF development is being principally funded by the United States with additional funding from partners. The partner nations are either NATO members or close U.S. allies.
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  • Detail of stealth technology surfaces on a Lockheed-Martin F-35 II Joint Strike Fighter at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, fifth-generation multirole fighters under development to perform ground attack, reconnaissance, and air defense missions with stealth capability. F-35 JSF development is being principally funded by the United States with additional funding from partners. The partner nations are either NATO members or close U.S. allies.
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  • Detail of stealth technology surfaces on a Lockheed-Martin F-35 II Joint Strike Fighter at the Farnborough Air Show, England. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, fifth-generation multirole fighters under development to perform ground attack, reconnaissance, and air defense missions with stealth capability. F-35 JSF development is being principally funded by the United States with additional funding from partners. The partner nations are either NATO members or close U.S. allies.
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  • Male and female members of a Guarani community. The Guarani are one of the most populous indigenous populations in Brazil, but with the least amount of land. They mostly live in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul and Mato Grosso. Their tradtional way of life and ancestral land is increasingly at risk from large scale agribusiness and agriculture. There have been recorded cases and allegations of violence between owners of large farms and the Guarani communities in this region.
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  • Two members of the audience sit in the rain waiting for a performance to start at an open air opera at a stately home, Devon, UK
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  • The sons of Amathj Mehmed, killed in a blood feud with a photograph of their father on his wedding day. They are in a feud with the familly of Murat Balia, who was killed in the same conflict.<br />
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The Kanun (code of behavior going back hundreds of years) included an elaborate legal code trying to regulate blood feud (gjakmarrya) – a system of reciprocal ”honour killings”. According to the Code, if a man is deeply affronted, his family has the right to kill the person who has insulted him. However, by doing this, the family will become a target for revenge on the part of the victim’s<br />
family. The victim’s closest male relative is obliged to kill the murderer of his family member. The pattern of reprisal killings thus formed has been passed on for generations of families and has been manifested up to the present day in Albania “Blood is never lost”, states the Kanun
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  • Marching soldiers Tirana. The ranks and the structure of the Albanian Armed Forces were organised based on the Soviet concepts, thus increasing the political control of the State-Party over the Armed Forces.<br />
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Like all other branches of the state, the military was subjugated to Communist Party control. All high-ranking military officers and most of the lower and middle ranks were members of the Communist Party - and had loyalties to it. The State and Party went even further in 1966, when military ranks were abolished following the example of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army and the military commander was insignificant with respect to the commanding role of the political commissars.<br />
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The Sigurimi, was responsible for the execution, the imprisonment and deportation of more than 600 Officers from the Armed Forces, thereby completely neutralizing the Armed Forces ability to start a coup d’état. As the communist regime collapsed in Albania during 1990, there was a real fear that the armed forces might intervene to halt the collapse of communism by force. In the event, the armed forces stood by as the regime of which they had been a part disintegrated.
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