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Thousands of mourners bowed their heads in tribute Friday to the passing coffins of soldiers killed in a new offensive in Afghanistan, where the climbing toll is raising questions in Britain about the cost of the war.

No one expected a major diplomatic breakthrough, an impressive concession or an outburst of inflammatory rhetoric at the U.S.-Russia summit this week in Moscow.

The signing ceremony in Moscow was a grand affair. For Barack Obama, foreign policy neophyte and "reset" man, the arms reduction agreement had a Kissingerian air.

Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola, has said that the NATO enjoys no such mandate to stop the drone attacks inside Pakistani territory as they were being carried out by the United States, report said.

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A short circuit at a reactor near Hamburg has reignited Germany's nuclear debate, just in time for the September elections.

Six NATO soldiers died in two attacks in Afghanistan today, bringing to nine the number killed from the alliance in the past three days.

Senior U.S. generals said Wednesday that more Afghan and NATO soldiers are needed to expand the fight against a Taliban-led insurgency in southern Afghanistan, although current military plans make such increases unlikely.

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Suspected U.S. unmanned aircraft launched two attacks against militants loyal to the head of the Pakistani Taliban on Wednesday, killing at least 45 in the latest in a barrage of strikes against a group also being targeted by the Pakistani military , intelligence officials said.

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For the U.S. president this has been a high-risk operation, given the undercurrent of suspicion toward Russia within the U.S. strategic community as well as the citizenry.

Reports in the Israeli media this week suggest that Israel is looking forward to participation in several key exercises and operation with NATO and individual NATO members during the remainder of 2009.

NATO must redefine its focus in the 21st century to combat new threats, including piracy, terrorism and cyber attacks, and to reflect its new role in war zones around the world, the organization's secretary general said Tuesday.

Bombs and bullets killed seven American troops while three NATO troops died in a helicopter crash in one of the deadliest days for foreign troops in Afghanistan since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001, officials said Tuesday.

NATO will formally launch the process leading to the new Strategic Concept of the Alliance at a major security conference in Brussels.

An Afghan National Army soldier stands guard at the site of a suicide attack near the main gate to a NATO military base in Kandahar province on July 6, 2009.

As the Obama administration finalizes its preparations for the Obama-Medvedev summit next week, their vaunted "reset" of U.S. relations with Russia is experiencing some technical difficulties.

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The deal is expected to be signed during President Barack Obama's visit to Moscow next week, Kremlin foreign policy adviser Sergei Prikhodko said.