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Page last updated at 20:27 GMT, Monday, 6 July 2009 21:27 UK

US President Barack Obama Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sign the joint understanding in Moscow (6 July 2009)
US and Russia agree nuclear cuts
US President Barack Obama and Russia's Dmitry Medvedev reach a deal to cut back their stockpiles of nuclear weapons.
US and Russia agree cuts
Russian views on Obama
Flurry of deals at summit

Robert McNamara 19.01.2002 Ex-Pentagon chief McNamara dies
Former US defence chief Robert McNamara, an architect of the Vietnam war who later regretted the US role, dies at 93.

Michael Jackson Jacksons 'plan private ceremony'
Michael Jackson's family is to hold a "private function" at a Los Angeles cemetery on Tuesday, the BBC learns.


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