US and Kyrgyz officials are about to wade into a second round of negotiations over the American military presence at Manas Air Base, reports Russian news agency ITAR-TASS. The new Kyrgyzstan leadership has been pressing for an increase in rental payments.
The Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile program will not be delayed by the explosion of a building at Northrop Grumman’s Promontory, Utah, complex which makes solid rocket motors, the company said.