US missile defense plan stirs division in Europe
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TROKAVEC, Czech Republic -- The push and pull of international tensions seem far removed from this forest village 45 miles southwest of Prague. Fewer than 100 people live here in masonry houses topped with orange tiles.
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BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell on the US plan to bring its missile shield to Europe, and the European response.
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The UK and US are discussing whether to site a US anti-ballistic missile defences on UK soil.
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By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press Writer MOSCOW -- Poland and the Czech Republic risk being targeted by Russian missiles if they agree to host a proposed U.S. missile defense system, a top Russian general ...Comment
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President Bush said yesterday that a missile defense system is urgently needed in Europe to guard against a possible attack on U.S. allies by Iran, while Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates suggested that the United States could delay activating such a system until there is "definitive proof" of such...
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PRAGUE, June 5 -- President Bush sought to assuage Russian concerns about U.S. plans for a Europe-based anti-missile system Tuesday, restating his position that the project is aimed at rogue regimes that could launch an attack on Europe.
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The chief U.S. missile defense negotiator defended plans to place anti-missile sites in Eastern Europe, saying Wednesday that the system could prevent a war with Iran by building an effective deterrent.
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Foreign Minister Alexandr Vondra on Wednesday voiced support for a U.S. missile defense base in the region that would protect America and Europe from intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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Pentagon space shield plan raises stakes with Russia - and local Czechs.
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The Bush administration wants deals by the end of the year for missile defense bases in Eastern Europe, but getting the Czech Republic and Poland to go along with that timetable could be difficult.
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President Bush said today the United States and its allies have an "urgent" need to build a missile defense system in Europe to protect against ballistic missile launches from such states as Iran, and he called on Congress to stop efforts to cut funding for key components of the program.
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The United States and Europe are drifting further apart on security issues and the use of force in the aftermath of the Iraq war, a major transatlantic opinion survey released on Thursday showed.
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Polish and Czech leaders spoke on Monday  in favor of allowing the United States to use their territory  for parts of an anti-missile defense system that has raised  Russian ire, saying it would also protect Europe.
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The U.S. anti-missile system, a part of which is to be a radar to be stationed in the Czech Republic, will protect Europe, British Minister of State for Europe Geoff Hoon, said at a discussion organised staged ...Comment
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Czech and Polish leaders back a US plan to install missile defence facilities on their territory.
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The head of the United States' missile defense program sought Wednesday to bolster Washington's argument for anti-missile sites in Europe by warning that Iran has sped up development of long-range missiles.
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BERLIN -- Setting an uncompromising tone before the start of the Group of Eight summit meeting in Germany on Wednesday, President Vladimir Putin has warned that Moscow would be forced to find missile targets of its own in Europe if the United States built its missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic.