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Russia, NATO aim for cooperation
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ties between the alliance and Russia hit a post-Cold War low after the Russo-Georgian war two years ago, when the alliance — under pressure from the Bush administration — froze relations with Moscow.
But since President Barack Obama announced a "reset" of U.S. ties, there has been a shift toward closer cooperation.
NEW YORK — A planned summit between NATO leaders and Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev will significantly boost cooperation on the Afghan war, missile defense and fighting drug trafficking and piracy, a senior U.S. official said Tuesday.
U. S. NATO Ambassador Ivo Daalder said that Wednesday's foreign ministers session with Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov will lay the groundwork for the November summit of the 28 NATO members and Russia in Lisbon, Portugal. Medvedev was invited earlier this month.
"I hope what we get out of this is that everyone will leave with an understanding that there is a good basis for trying to achieve some significant breakthroughs by the time we are able to get together at the leaders' level in November," Daalder told journalists.
In April, Obama and Medvedev
signed a new nuclear arms reduction treaty, and in June Russia agreed to support U.N. sanctions against Iran because of its nuclear program.
NATO quickly followed suit with an exchange of visits and meetings by senior officials and top generals.
Russia, which wants to quash Islamic militancy and drug trafficking in its neighborhood, has opened a land route to resupply the 140,000-strong NATO force in Afghanistan. The main supply route through Pakistan has come under repeated attack by Taliban guerrillas.
Moscow is also training hundreds of Afghan and Central Asian drug agents. it is currently considering a NATO request to equip the nascent Afghan air force with transport and gunship helicopters, and to train their pilots and mechanics.
"Russia has no interest in seeing us fail in Afghanistan, it has every interest that Afghanistan is not a source of instability," Daalder said. "In that sense we are working together in seeing how we can transform those shared interests into (more cooperation)."
Daalder said he expected that NATO nations will decide on whether to proceed with a proposed anti-missile shield.
ODD NEWS
Man wants free speech, freer crap
PALMYRA, Pa. — A central Pennsylvania man accused of violating a township ordinance on vulgarity says the rule is trash
David Kliss has filed a federal lawsuit against East Hanover Township claiming officials trampled his First Amendment rights by issuing him a zoning violation about signs he put up protesting a mandated sewer tie-in.
Kliss put up signs that read "$10,000 To Take A Crap." He says he covered the last word with paint after the township told him he violated a zoning rule.
Jessica Janasz/KANSAN
Associated Press
Monkey eat, monkey run
**Tesis Taraziz/KRASI**
Students dress up in costumes for the Crunchy Chicken Challenge run, which is an annual fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity. Starting and ending at the Burge Union, students ran a little less than three miles around campus, stopping to吃 a chicken or veer joke on Wrecked Beach
ODD NEWS
Lesson of the day:
Bank Robbery 101
GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Police in Oregon say a woman charged with robbing a bank stopped to pick up her children at school on the way home.
Authorities say 19-year-old
The woman reportedly walked into a bank branch shortly after 2 p.m. Monday, handed the teller a note demanding cash and then rode off in a car driven by a man.
false alarms set off real frights
Police say a witness description of the license plates led to the home of 37-year-old Erica F. Anderson, who was arrested on robbery and theft charges after returning from picking up her daughters at their school.
Joshua K. Deeter Tseu drove the car and was arrested on the same charges.
HUTCHINSON — Authorities say a phone glitch is to blame for the mistaken sounding of tornado sirens in recent weeks, causing confusion and panic among some residents. At first, officials suspected there was water on the phone lines or perhaps insects. But The Hutchinson News reported the sirens are activated when emergency workers dial those numbers.
Associated Press
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