Miliband told the Telegraph that some in Britain believe the country bears an unfair share of the military burden in Iraq, and he repeated calls for other NATO allies like France and Germany to contribute more in Afghanistan.

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What if the country's future bears more resemblance to the past of another country: Japan?

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In Micronesia, a coin issued in 2004 bears the likeness of that country's elected president, Joseph J.

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Those new songs include the comic "Weed Instead of Roses, " in which the narrator not only suggests to a longtime mate that the former would be the better choice of gift, but that he help her "put up the teddy bears and pull out the whip and chains" surely a country first.

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Another issue that is dividing both country delegations and welfare campaigners is the status of polar bears, a situation the BBC reported on last December.

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As one of the five top commanders of the FMLN guerrillas in the 1980s, Handal bears personal responsibility for having plunged his country into a terrible internal war that cost tens of thousands of lives.

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This may be Europe and a country that will join the EU in 2013, but it is also a remote escape where wolves and bears still roam wild.

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One night as Churchill's "bear season" was gearing up, I sat down with Kevin Burke, a man who has lived with polar bears all his life, as both a Churchill native and a ranger in the deep bush country.

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The bears will have to retreat to their caves for awhile with the latest happenings in Washington and around the country.

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