Germany chides U.S. move on anti-missile shield
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German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier criticised the United States on Sunday in a rare public rebuke for failing to inform Russia of an offer to build an anti-missile base on Polish soil.
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The United States has proposed delaying the activation of parts of its European missile defense shield if Russia cooperates on the project, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Tuesday.
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NATO led criticism on Monday of  President Vladimir Putin&#39;s latest attack on a planned U.S.  missile shield, but Western reaction was generally muted ahead  of a Group of Eight (G8) encounter with Putin this week.
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Russia's new proposal for a missile defense system in Europe is far afield from what the United States has in mind and unlikely to garner much support, defense analysts said Thursday.
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Germany's defense minister said he might order the shooting down of hijacked airlines to avert a Sept. 11-style attack, drawing widespread criticism Monday after the country's highest court threw out a law permitting such action.
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The United States scrapped on Friday a key test of an emerging missile-defense shield after a dummy missile that was to have been the system's target went astray over the Pacific.
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MOSCOW -- Russia said yesterday that its offer to the United States of joint use of a radar it controls in Azerbaijan made a planned American missile shield in central Europe unnecessary.
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U.S. President George W. Bush insisted on Tuesday a missile shield in Europe was needed for the security of the United States and its NATO allies.
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The United States may start building a  missile shield in Poland in February 2008, Polish Deputy  Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski said in an interview  published in a Russian newspaper on Monday.
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A test of key parts of an emerging   U.S. anti-missile shield was scrubbed on Thursday because of   bad weather in Kodiak, Alaska, where a target missile was to   have been launched, the Defense Department said.
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Russian opposition to a U.S. proposal to build a missile defense system in Poland stems from Moscow's hopes to regain influence over its former satellite, the prime minister said Tuesday.Comment
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U.S. News & World Report - LONDON-- The White House's plan to expand the U.S. ballistic missile defense shield to Europe is running into difficulties as the clock ticks down on George W. Bush's presidency. European governments have started a time-honored exercise in political expediency: distancing themselves from what is increasingly seen as a lame-duck U.S. administration. And the antimissile system could be the main casualty of that diplomatic dance--at least in the short term.
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The United States and NATO on Monday criticized President Vladimir Putin's latest attack on a planned U.S. missile shield, but Western reaction was generally muted ahead of a Group of Eight encounter with Putin this week.
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The United States is moving forward with missile shield talks with Poland and the Czech Republic, as it explores the idea of a joint radar base with Russia, NATO and US officials said Thursday.
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BERLIN  - German officials voiced concern Monday that their country has the most to lose with President George W. Bush's announcement that tens of thousands of troops will return to the United States over the next decade.
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Iran's top security official on Monday called U.S. plans for an Eastern Europe missile defense shield that Washington says would protect U.S. allies from Iran a "joke," saying Tehran's missiles do not have the capability to reach Europe.
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BERLIN -- German officials expressed concern yesterday that their country has the most to lose with President Bush's announcement that tens of thousands of troops will return to the United States over the next decade.