Tentative deal for US missile base in Poland

By Daniel Dombey in Washington and Jan Cienski in Warsaw The US and Poland have capped months of negotiations with a tentative agreement to station a US missile defence base on Polish soil, officials said on Wednesday. The deal, which is still subject to final approval by the government of Donald Tusk, Polish prime minister, removes one of the final big obstacles to a programme that is controversial within the US and viewed with suspicion by Russia. “We are satisfied with the way things are going,” said a senior US... [read full story]