• Civil defence helicopters, boats and lorries have been ferrying food and other supplies to the affected area.

    BBC: Brazil flood victims return home

  • Civil defence teams with sniffer dogs called off their efforts late on Sunday, nearly 12 hours after the quake struck.

    CNN: Turkish quake victims brave cold

  • Anyone who does find themselves stranded by the conditions can call 01624 619425 for help from the Island's Civil Defence volunteers.

    BBC: Snow in Port Erin

  • The firing of two of the men Ghazi Jabali, the Gaza police chief, and Mahmoud Abu Mazouq, the head of civil defence went down well.

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  • The year-long project will also look at the history of civil defence preparations in Norwich, and the involvement of volunteers in the Civil Defence Corps.

    BBC: Cold War study looks at communities in Norfolk and Suffolk

  • "We are experiencing one of the worst disasters of the past decade, " the deputy civil defence minister, Hernan Tuco, told local radio at the weekend.

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  • Its forces have trained hard for just such an engagement, as well as working on improvements to civil defence, supply lines, planning and public relations.

    BBC: Hamas ready for bitter urban battle

  • Israeli Civil Defence Minister Avi Dichter told Israel's Army Radio that he could not say anything about the reported blast "beyond what I heard in the media".

    BBC: Iran denies reports of explosion at Fordo nuclear site

  • By 1943 women formed a quarter of the Civil Defence force, most of them as air-raid wardens, with the fire service or driving ambulances through the air raids.

    BBC: Home Front volunteers honoured

  • The head of the Civil Defence agency, Angel Rangel, has highlighted the case of Carmen de Uria, a community where only about 100 of the 3, 000 homes were left standing.

    BBC: News Online

  • Gavin Saxby, who is helping the Civil Defence and Emergency Service Preservation Trust restore the former Dundee Group Control, said preserving sites and the equipment which was used acknowledged the sacrifices ROC volunteers were prepared to make.

    BBC: The underground Cold War sites on your doorstep

  • The four-strong Liberal Democrat group, more attuned to exercising power through coalition, gave it a day and a half before Lord Tope turned down the invitation to head the authority's fire and civil defence committee - seen by some as the equivalent of being paper clips monitor.

    BBC: Mayor Ken's big tent

  • It has seized on natural disasters, such as earthquakes, to play an active civil-defence role.

    ECONOMIST: Chile

  • They discussed how to stop the recruitment of children by armies, paramilitary groups and civil-defence bodies.

    ECONOMIST: Kalashnikov kids

  • Its new bugbear is the Magyar Garda (Hungarian Guard), a self-styled civil-defence group.

    ECONOMIST: The Hungarian far right

  • Farnborough is a chance for the civil and defence aviation industries to show off their wares and latest technological developments and push sales.

    BBC: Defence Secretary Liam Fox warns on spending

  • He said the company would concentrate on making engines for the civil and defence aerospace markets as well as turbines for the marine and energy sectors.

    BBC: Rolls-Royce profits and revenues rise

  • The civil-defence authorities have imported cassava to plant from Brazil, and plan a fortnightly food parcel to each family in the interior for the next six months.

    ECONOMIST: Guyana

  • On defence the civil servants have abandoned that fig leaf.

    ECONOMIST: Defence spending

  • On September 21st Herman Simm, a middle-ranking civil servant in Estonia's defence ministry, was arrested, along with his wife, and charged with spying for an unnamed foreign power.

    ECONOMIST: A sensational arrest inside Estonia��s defence ministry

  • In his report, Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell criticised Mr Fox for allowing Mr Werritty to attend certain meetings, including one with a defence contractor, without civil servants being present.

    BBC: 'Naive' Werritty admits mistakes over links to Liam Fox

  • In their memorandum they agreed that an integrated European Aerospace and Defence Company should embrace civil, military transport and combat aircraft as well as helicopters, space launchers and guided weapons.

    ECONOMIST: European armaments

  • Almost all the money goes on interest payments (some 43% of recurrent expenses), civil-service wages and pensions, defence and subsidies.

    ECONOMIST: Too little investment; too big a deficit; too few jobs

  • Sweden is too small a country to support Saab's defence business, and the civil-aerospace business is suffering because of an overcrowded market for regional aircraft.

    ECONOMIST: Is it a bird? Is it a manager?

  • She gave details of "truly shocking" waste at the Ministry of Defence and said the senior civil servant at the department should have stepped in to block the contract to build the aircraft carriers.

    BBC: Democracy Live site links

  • Against the advice of the defence ministry's top civil servant, ministers sent the scientist to undergo a grilling by a parliamentary inquiry into the affair, at which he claimed not to recognise the reporter's words as having come from his briefing.

    ECONOMIST: Dr Spin quits | The

  • In its defence the government, brought together from former belligerents, representatives of civil society and elements of the political opposition, rightly says that organising elections in Congo is a logistical nightmare.

    ECONOMIST: Worries are growing as Congo's election timetable slips

  • The Ministry of Defence (MoD), National Air Traffic Services (Nats), Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and RSPB Scotland have agreed conditions.

    BBC: Objections dropped to wind farm off Aberdeen

  • The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) and defence union Prospect pledged to fight the plans which they warned would force skilled staff to leave the civil service.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | England | Jobs to move in military merger

  • But today Boeing is no longer so heavily dependent on its civil-jet business, now down from 80% of sales to little more than half, as its defence and space interests have grown.

    ECONOMIST: Airbus and Boeing

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