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WARSAW -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is to sign a deal with Poland on Wednesday that will see a U.S. missile defence base, and a permanent garrison of 100-plus U.S. troops, built on the soil of the former Soviet satellite -- a plan that has infuriated Moscow.
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TBILISI -- Russian troops and tanks appear to be destroying Georgia’s infrastructure -- blowing up the runway at Senaki air base and a strategically located rail bridge at Kaspi -- as well as blocking the main east-west highway between the capital Tbilisi and the country's Black Sea ports.
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BEIJING -- There are 11 gold medals to be won Wednesday. Todays medal table -- listing nations with more than three golds, plus a full medal list as a text file -- will move after the women's 400m hurdles final at around 14:45GMT.
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ISLAMABAD -- With President Pervez Musharraf gone, Pakistan's fractious government faces an intensifying battle against the Taliban and Al Qaeda in the tribal badlands along the Afghanistan border.
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