NATO planes escort Russia bombers in Atlantic: Ifax
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Russia's Air Force said on Tuesday  British and Norwegian air force jets are tracking Russian  "Blackjack" bombers on exercises off the Atlantic coast,  Interfax news agency reported.
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Twelve Russian strategic bombers will  take part in an Arctic exercise on Monday and Tuesday including  tactical launches of cruise missiles, an air force spokesman  said.
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Leaders of member countries pose for group photo at NATO summit in Riga, 29 Nov 2006 NATO is pledging to continue its mission in Afghanistan, despite the presence of resurgent Taleban and al-Qaida forces and a ...Comment
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Russia on Friday sent 12 air force  bombers to take part in naval exercises over the Arctic and  North Atlantic oceans, Itar-Tass news agency quoted a spokesman  for Russia's air force as saying.
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NATO called for closer ties with Russia on Friday, a day after British warplanes scrambled to intercept Russian bombers on patrol, and said it was up to the Kremlin to spell out whether it had a "different view".
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Russia deployed extra troops to guard  dozens of nuclear facilities across the country on Wednesday  after militants seized a school in the south and a suicide bomb  attack in Moscow, the nuclear authority said.
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Nato in Afghanistan: role model? The Nato summit in the Latvian capital Riga this week will be dominated by the war Nato is waging against the Taleban in Afghanistan and by the concept that Nato should ...Comment
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NATO battled Taliban holdouts in the   deserts of southern Afghanistan on Saturday amid a security   crackdown in the capital after at least 16 people were killed   by a suicide bomber.
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NATO countries signaled at a summit in Latvia on Tuesday they could free up more troops to battle Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan by easing restrictions on their forces in emergencies, officials said.
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NATO troops and helicopters searched on  Friday for an Afghan airliner missing for a day with 104 people  on board, including 13 foreigners, amid fears it may have  crashed after being turned away from Kabul in a snow storm.
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The Nato summit in Riga this week will be dominated by the war it is waging against the Taleban in Afghanistan and by the concept that Nato should increasingly play a global role, says Paul Reynolds
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Military jets were scrambled to escort an Olympic Airlines aircraft en route from Athens to New York to Stansted airport in Essex after a bomb alert, defence ministry and airline officials said.
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MOSCOW : Russia said terrorists were behind a passenger jet crash as an Islamic group proclaiming support for rebels in Chechnya claimed responsibility for the downing of that and another plane.
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Hundreds of NATO and Afghan troops Sunday pushed on with a major anti-Taliban operation in which 14 British soldiers were killed in a plane crash while carrying out surveillance.
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NATO on Wednesday urged Canada not to pull its troops from Afghanistan's dangerous Kandahar region and pledged to help find the 1,000 additional allied troops Ottawa is demanding.
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Russian bombers test missiles in the Atlantic as part of navy exercises in the area, a Russian official says.
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NATO reacted cautiously on Friday to a Russian offer for the United States to use a Russian-controlled radar in Azerbaijan for a missile defense shield, questioning whether its location was ideal.