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Reports: Kremlin rejects US missile defense (AP)

 
AP - The Kremlin has rejected a second set of U.S. proposals offered to assuage increasingly strident Russian criticism of plans for an American missile-defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic, news agencies reported Wednesday. (link)

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