Daily Telegraph – Families expelled from the Chagos Islands by Britain to make way for an American airbase won their legal battle to return home yesterday. The only island that they will not be able to resettle under original High Court orders allowing their return will be Diego Garcia, where the airbase is situated.
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Daily Archives: May 24, 2007
US Navy – Oldest U.S. carrier makes last voyage
Seattle Times – The USS Kitty Hawk, the U.S. Navy’s oldest ship in full active service, embarked on its last major deployment Wednesday before being decommissioned next year.
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US Navy – Eisenhower strike group returns after long deployment
Virginian Pilot – Several thousand sailors from the carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower and three smaller ships arrived in Norfolk Naval Station on Wednesday, weary from an extended, nearly eight-month deployment fighting wars and securing seas in the Middle East.
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