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For the first time since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the United States is contemplating a Russia that has used military force against a neighbor and wondering what, if anything, it must do to counter ...

Today's edition of quick hits. * What a shame : "Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio, a Democratic superdelegate and one of Hillary Clinton's most ardent supporters, was hospitalized in critical condition ...

The government gave formal approval to a missile defense agreement with the United States yesterday before a visit by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Saturday, August 16, 2008 Poland Takes Sides "Even as Russia yesterday continued its heavy-handed intimidation of the former Soviet bloc, the government of Poland sent a message of its own to Moscow.

Poland's prime minister says his country will offer asylum or a $40,000 payment to any Iraqi working for its military or police in Iraq.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will come to Warsaw on Tuesday to formally sign the deal on anti-missile shield, Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Ryszard Schnepf said Monday.

If Moscow thought the threat of nuclear retaliation would cow Poland into rejecting a controversial U.S. missile shield, it learned otherwise over the weekend as the Polish press and public rallied around a ...

They live in a historically battered region between West and East, the Rhine and the Volga, Berlin and Moscow. Now, as Russian tanks rumble in Georgia, the states of "new Europe" are urging the West to rethink its relationship with Russia and are pushing for new security and strong measures against an aggressive Moscow they say they know all too well.

From Poland to Ukraine, the Czech Republic to Bulgaria, Russia's invasion of Georgia with tanks, troops, and planes is described as a test of Western resolve. The former Soviet states are vowing to thwart Russian aims - in deals with the European Union, in a missile-defense pact with the US, and in trade and diplomacy.

EDITORIAL Is missile shield worth it? In the middle of a week that saw the already strained relations between Russia and the United States rapidly deteriorate over the ongoing crisis in Georgia, word that ...

The Russian tanks rumbling across parts of Georgia are forcing a fundamental reassessment of strategic interests across Europe in a way not considered since the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the ...

The U.S. has agreed to Polish requests including modernization of its armed forces in exchange for the location of the missiles, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said in an interview with private broadcaster ...

Polish and US negotiators resumed talks Wednesday on a proposed US anti-missile shield to be placed in Eastern Europe with the US reportedly bringing a new proposition bringing the two sides closer to an ...

Poland said Wednesday it was hoping to seal a deal with Washington on hosting a controversial US missile shield, after the start of a new round of their long-running talks.

Poland is more likely to agree to host a U.S. missile shield after signs Washington is ready to meet Polish demands for enhanced military cooperation, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday.

Russian aggression over Georgia is increasing, with one of the cities attacked, Gori, already being evacuated and Tbilisi being bombarded On Saturday, President Lech Kaczynski met with Prime Minister Donald ...

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has dismissed his country's top negotiator with Washington on the proposed U.S. missile defence system.

The French EU presidency is to call an emergency EU summit on the Russia-Georgia conflict, with the top-level meeting to possibly take place in Brussels next week.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced plans to significantly lower the budgets of the Radio and Television Council as well as that of the National Remembrance Institute Other Civic Platform deputies also ...

A long-distance train from Poland carrying hundreds of passengers smashed into a collapsed bridge and partially derailed in the Czech Republic on Friday, killing seven people and injuring at least 67, officials ...

Like several other ex-communist states that joined the EU in 2004, Poland has complained that Brussels is failing to take into account the needs created by rapid growth as it tries to catch up with its richer ...