WARSAW: Poland has welcomed NATO's support for Warsaw's plan to host part of a planned U.S. missile defense shield.Defense Minister Bogdan Klich said that Warsaw negotiated its missile defense deal with Washington with the knowledge that “allies in NATO accept our bilateral agreement”.He said Thursday that NATO first backed the plan during a summit in April. NATO foreign ministers reaffirmed their support this week. The U.S. says the system would include 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar base in the Czech Republic to help protect Europe against potential threats from the Middle East. Russia is opposed to the plans and has threatened to deploy short-range missiles to its westernmost region of Kaliningrad, near Poland.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
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