The Polish government says it will let the United States station part of its planned global anti-missile system inside Poland in exchange for a promise by Washington to boost Poland's own air defences.
Senior Polish and US officials on Thursday signed a preliminary agreement after two days of talks. The deal is likely to heighten tensions between the West and Russia, which sees the system as a security threat. The US says the missile shield is intended to deter perceived missile threats from countries such as Iran. It plans Into the freezer ...
Train crash kills six, injures 100 in Czech Republic ... to base ten interceptor millises in Poland and a radar facility in the neigbouring Czech Republic by 2013. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday cancelled a trip to Warsaw planned for September hours after the Polish-US deal was struck.
(Deutsche Welle)
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