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Midnight Latitudes
In the town of Longyearbyen, on the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, one rarely goes more than a day without hearing the boast "world's northernmost".
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Firework Hymns
Of the not-insignificant number of events around the world billing themselves as "the greatest show on Earth", the Rio Carnival has a thicker-fingered hold on the title than most.
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The Road to Kabul
Kabul, rebuilt since 1992 to a reasonable facsimile of its pre-war shape, is a functioning city first and a fortified war hub second.
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Flightline II: Parting Shots
The flightline at Kandahar Airfield loses another flag as flight crews disassemble and ship out Canada's last combat helicopter from Afghanistan.
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Combat Close-Out
For all the ink, here and elsewhere, given to its Operation Attention training mission in Kabul, Canada's largest operation in Afghanistan remains the comparatively unheralded Mission Transition Task Force (MTTF).
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Hockey Night in Kandahar
Of all the strange and unlikely pleasures to be found on the coalition bases of southern Afghanistan, the hockey rink at Kandahar Airfield must rank among the most surreal.
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Basic Warrior Training
Increasingly prized by the NATO-led international military campaign as their ticket out of Afghanistan, the eight-year-old ANA has swelled in numbers and is projected to reach 250,000 by 2015.
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