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London 2012
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7/20/2012 10:45:47 PM
The Olympic flame made a dramatic arrival in London on Friday when it was flown in by military helicopter and lowered to the ground by a marine commando a week ahead of the opening ceremony
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World
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7/18/2012 10:14:37 AM
As the Free Syrian Army intensifies its attacks and claims to have shot down a helicopter in Damascus, Kofi Annan says the 16-month long crisis is at a 'critical time'
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7/17/2012 5:10:33 PM
A sustained battle rages in Syria's capital Damascus as rebels try to push through the government stronghold as UN presses China, Russia to exert more pressure on Assad
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7/17/2012 5:08:03 PM
A member of the political bureau in the Sudan Liberation Army says rebels in the conflict-preoccupied Darfur region shot down a military helicopter, killing seven people
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7/15/2012 2:15:39 PM
Syria denies accusations by Kofi Annan that state forces used heavy weapons or helicopters in clashes in the village of Tremseh last week, where activists said there was a massacre of over 200 people
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7/15/2012 1:29:28 PM
Damascus denies its forces used tanks and helicopters in assault on Treimsa, saying what happened was the result of clashes with rebels and not a 'massacre'
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7/8/2012 4:39:00 PM
Syrian navy fired live missiles from ships and helicopters over the weekend, in an exercise aiming at showcasing its ability to 'defend Syria's shores against any possible aggression'
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7/4/2012 11:32:41 AM
Turkey says it had scrambled warplanes after Syrian helicopters flew near its border; Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad says he wished his forces had not shot down a Turkish jet
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Euro2012
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News
7/3/2012 8:30:00 AM
Helicopters hovering above filmed a crowd that seemed to carpet the entire heart of the capital to rejoice in Spain's historic 4-0 thrashing of Italy in the Ukrainian capital Kiev
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World
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Region
7/1/2012 7:09:20 PM
Ankara scrambles six F-16 warplanes after Syrian helicopters approach border, further raising tensions after Syria's downing of Turkish plane last month
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World
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International
7/1/2012 11:43:25 AM
In a fresh attacks hitting Kenya, gunmen kill at least 10 and injure dozens as they opened fire and hurled grenades into two churches in the eastern town of Garissa
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6/21/2012 4:49:09 PM
A Russian helicopter carrying helicopters and air defense systems is ordered to return from Syria over allegations of carrying weapons, while Russia's Foreign Minster states his country is "not in violation of anything"
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6/15/2012 11:52:49 AM
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov denies any deliveries of attack helicopters to Syria and insists that Moscow only provides anti-air defence systems to the civil-war-torn country
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6/13/2012 7:39:53 PM
Russia's foreign minister accuses US of giving arms to Syrian rebel forces following accusation by Washington that Moscow is supplying Al-Assad's regime with attack helicopters
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6/13/2012 12:12:38 PM
While declining to comment on recently emergent reports that Russia was sending helicopters to aid the Bashar al-Assad regime, it nevertheless stated its deliveries were in line with UN regulations
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6/13/2012 10:39:15 AM
Syria is 'now in a full-scale civil war', UN peacekeeping chief claims as the United States accuses Russia of supplying the regime with attack helicopters
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6/11/2012 8:20:27 PM
Armed clashes between Syrian regime and opposition continue across Syria; Lebanon rejects establishing buffer zone with Syria
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International
6/10/2012 2:54:04 PM
Kenya's internal security minister Saitoti, who vowed to crush Somali militant group al Shabaab, is killed in a chopper crash with his deputy, two pilots and two bodyguards
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World
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International
6/10/2012 11:18:30 AM
Kenya's minister for internal security and presidential candidate George Saitoti and his deputy were killed when a police helicopter crashed into a forest just outside the capital and burst into flames
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World
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Region
6/5/2012 3:20:34 PM
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the heaviest clashes in coastal province of Latakia since beginning of the year-long crisis occurred on Tuesday, following clashes between rebels and regime forces backed by helicopters
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