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NATO last night sidestepped French opposition to approve plans to defend Turkey. Alliance officials said a deal had finally been done after a day of gruelling negotiations in NATO's defence planning committee of which France is not a member. France withdrew from the integrated military structure of the alliance in 1966.Germany and Belgium dropped their objections in return for guarantees that sending surveillance planes and missile batteries to Turkey did not mean war, and an explicit reference to UN efforts to resolve the crisis peacefully.But NATO's deadlock after a highly divisive month will not necessarily mean an easier EU summit in Brussels.
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U.S. Marines and Afghan troops Friday launched the first offensive since President Barack Obama announced an American troop surge, striking against Taliban communications and supply lines in a southern insurgent stronghold, a military spokesman said.Hundreds of troops from the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine and the Marine reconnaissance unit Task Force Raider were dropped by helicopter and MV-22 Osprey aircraft behind Taliban lines in the northern end of the Now Zad Valley of Helmand province, scene of heavy fighting last summer, according to Marine spokesman Maj. William Pelletier.Pelletier said insurgents were caught off guard by the early morning air assault, the first using Ospreys, all aircraft that combines features of helicopters and fixed wing aircraft .