Some officials privately concede that there is little chance for large-scale success of the anti-opium effort in Afghanistan before the end of the NATO military mission in 2014.

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Drug Traffic Remains as U.S. Nears Afghanistan Exit

So far this month, 33 NATO service members have been killed in Afghanistan, about half as many as died in May 2011.

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Afghanistan Explosions Kill Four NATO Soldiers

Pakistani officials said an American strike on suspected militants in the northwest killed 10 people, an attack likely to raise tensions in a standoff over NATO supply routes.

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U.S. Drone Strike Kills 10 in Pakistan, Officials Say

Alan Simpson. We miss him every day. He was the most colorful quote-meister ever when he was the distinguished Republican senator from Wyoming. And he clearly hasn’t lost a step since his retirement in 1997. Read full article > >

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Alan Simpson shows retirement hasn’t softened his tongue much

A US senator challenges claims the Secret Service sex scandal was an isolated incident, at the first congressional hearing into the affair.

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Secret Service scandal in hearing

Russia tests a new long-range missile which sources say is designed to penetrate Nato’s missile defence shield.

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Russia test-fired a ballistic missile Wednesday, a move that comes amid tensions about a recent NATO announcement that it placed an interim missile defense shield in Europe.

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Russia test-fires new missile

NATO leaders signed off on President Obama's exit strategy from Afghanistan that calls for a 2013 end to combat operations.

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NATO backs Obama’s Afghan exit plan

Nato leaders have formalised an agreement to hand control of Afghanistan to its own security forces in 2013. The summit also confirmed its timetable for a full combat pullout by 2014. Mark Mardell reports.

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VIDEO: Nato to quit Afghan combat role in 2013

Britain will not desert the people of Afghanistan when troops end their combat role there in 2014, David Cameron says at a Nato summit in Chicago.

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Chicago prepares for fresh demonstrations, a day after violent clashes between police and activists outside a Nato summit in the city.

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Chicago braced for more protests

A deal to reopen military supply routes through Pakistan to Afghanistan appeared stalled just as President Obama began talks on ending NATO’s combat role in Afghanistan.

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Supply Lines Cast Shadow at NATO Meeting on Afghan War

More work must be done before NATO troops pull out of Afghanistan, U.S. President Barack Obama said as he met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai Sunday.

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Batons, blood mar NATO summit

Nato leaders are meeting in Chicago in a summit dominated by the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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VIDEO: Nato leaders discuss Afghan withdrawal

Two suspects who appeared in court in Cook County, Illinois, on Sunday are not believed to be part of an alleged terror plot in Chicago during the NATO summit, prosecutors said Sunday.

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