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May 26, 2016

Central European NATO members to send troops to Baltics
Liblice, Czech Republic (AFP) May 25, 2016
Four central European states said Wednesday they would send troops to three Baltic NATO allies starting next year as tensions with their Soviet-era master Russia rise to levels not seen since the Cold War. The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia said they would fine-tune quarterly rotational deployments of 600 troops to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in time for a key NATO summit in Warsaw this July. "We would like to start on January 1, 2017," Czech Defence Minister Martin Stropnicky sa ... read more

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India's mini space shuttle blasts off

S. Korea rejects North's military talks offer

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