Britain talks to U.S. about missile system role
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Britain is talking to the United States about participating in a U.S. plan for a missile defense shield, the government said on Friday.
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Germany's defense minister on Friday urged more talks within NATO on the U.S. plan to locate elements of an anti-missile shield in Europe which has raised tensions between Russia and the United States.
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LONDON -- Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, seeking to repair ties between the United States and Europe, urged Washington yesterday to reach out to its allies and not depend on military force alone in the global fight against terrorism.
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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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Britain's Ministry of Defense said Friday that it was discussing coalition troop deployments in Iraq with the country's interim government and U.S. officials.
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Polish lawmakers expect to discuss in the next few days a U.S. request to set up part of a planned missile defense system in Poland, the prime minister said Tuesday.Comment
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Northrop Grumman Corp. NOC.N and  BAE Systems PLC BA.L were tapped by the Bush administration  on Wednesday to develop competing systems to protect U.S.  commercial aircraft from shoulder-fired missiles, a potential  multibillion-dollar market.
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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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Slippery Brits promise no reselling The US and UK Governments have drawn up a treaty that will give Britain easier access to American military technology, but no rights to resell it.â¦
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The Bush administration is facing questions from weapons experts about whether some equipment â newly authorized for export to Chinese companies â could instead end up helping China modernize its military.
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Britain's Foreign Secretary said on  Tuesday London was working with the United States to get as  much information on a "friendly fire" incident in which U.S.  warplanes in Iraq killed a British soldier in Iraq.
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Britain failed to challenge the US government on one of the most controversial aspects of its disastrous post-invasion policy in Iraq in crucial meetings, according to a memo from a senior American adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority.
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Britain today said it was &quot;considering&quot; a request from Washington to redeploy some of its troops in Iraq from their current base in Basra into strife-torn US-held areas.
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A high-level British government crisis cell met Tuesday to discuss how to respond to the abduction of five Britons who were seized in broad daylight in Baghdad.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has secretly agreed to let the United States station interceptor missiles on British soil for the so-called &quot;Son of Star Wars&quot; defence system, according to a newspaper report.
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Britain will âreview the extent of our cooperation with Russia on a range of issues,â the foreign secretary said.
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President George W. Bush and Poland's president on Monday emphasized the need to build a missile defense system in Europe that has strained relations with Russia.