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...Supreme Court prohibited the federal trial regarding Proposition 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage, from being filmed or broadcast on YouTube. But actor John Ainsworth and filmmaker John Ireland found a loophole. The duo, legally married to their respective husbands, found a mock courtroom at the University of Southern California, hired a group of actors and began re-enacting the proceedings on the basis of courtroom transcripts and firsthand accounts from journalists present at the trial. The episodes began airing online...
...November, Brown had suggested that five provinces would be under Afghan control by the end of 2010, and President Obama set a goal of beginning to draw down U.S. troops in July 2011. Thursday's communiqué avoids most such specifics. Britain's Secretary of State for Defense Bob Ainsworth told TIME he expects "late this year or early next to be able to transition some provinces" to Afghan control. "We're not on an exit strategy," he added. "We're going to put this country in a good place...
...Western military deployments are certainly having an impact in the area. Last weekend British marines attacked a Yemeni-flagged fishing vessel that had unsuccessfully attacked a Danish container ship. Eight pirates were arrested and turned over to the Kenyan authorities in what Britain's Armed Forces Minister Bob Ainsworth said was a "strong message to pirates that their activities are unacceptable and that the global community is united in its efforts to deter and disrupt them...
...appreciated back home. They expressed these concerns during a July visit by the U.K. Foreign Secretary David Miliband and, within the past two months, they have been able to make their case to a stream of visiting VIPs: Defense Secretary Des Browne, his Minister for the Armed Forces Bob Ainsworth, Britain's army chief General Sir Richard Dannatt and David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party. Despite the soldiers' fears of neglect, however, Britain's political classes and military leaders are, in fact, fully focused on Afghanistan, the country that Britain's new Prime Minister Gordon Brown describes...
...call with President Bush on July 30. The Prime Minister was noticeably less bullish on the British role in Iraq, referring simply to "duties and responsibilities" there. The only high-level visitor to Iraq since the start of Brown's premiership on June 27 has been Armed Forces Minister Ainsworth. On July 24, Ainsworth assured the House of Commons Defense Committee that British forces in southeastern Iraq are unlikely to be reduced below 5,000 after Iraqi forces take over control of Basra. According to Air Chief Marshall Sir Jock Stirrup, head of the U.K. armed forces, that handover could...