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| FT.com - World
FT.com - World
The United States and Poland signed a deal to station elements of a US missile defence shield in Poland– in a move finalised after Moscow's intervention in Georgia – as Syrian president Bashar al-Assad visited Moscow seeking to acquire Russian cruise missiles
Republican John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama in the US presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll
President Nicolas Sarkozy said he had no regrets about sending 700 more troops to Afghanistan, after insurgents killed 10 French soldiers, the biggest single loss for foreign forces in combat since 2001
Talks have been held with countries including Japan about offloading large numbers of Eurofighter Typhoons that the Ministry of Defence has ordered but can no longer afford
Nicolas Sarkozy was on his way to Afghanistan after Taliban fighters killed 10 French soldiers in fighting near Kabul, part of the heaviest death toll Nato forces have suffered in battle since the 2001 US-led invasion
A US state department official said the new government in Islamabad had failed to prevent the country's intelligence agency from aiding terrorist attacks and supporting the Taliban
A suicide bomb attack on a police school east of Algiers has killed at least 43 people and wounded 38, in one of the deadliest attacks in the country for years
The race by food-importing countries to secure farmland overseas to improve their food security risks creating a 'neo-colonial' system, a UN official has cautioned
Venezuela has expropriated the local assets of Mexico's Cemex after failing to agree about compensation, as President Hugo Chávez continues to take control of "strategic" sectors of the economy
The Bank of Japan has cut its assessment of the economy for a second month running in a sign that a global slump sparked by the US credit crisis may be spreading too quickly for the country to avert recession
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