Rice signs US-Romania bases deal
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has signed a deal allowing the US to use military bases in Romania.
It is the first such deal to be signed with a former communist country in eastern Europe.
Ms Rice arrived in Romania from Germany, on the second leg of a European tour overshadowed by a controversy about CIA operations.
She stressed that the US does not carry out or condone torture, but did not comment on alleged secret CIA prisons.
She has defended the CIA practice of “renditions” – secretly transferring terror suspects to third countries.
There is widespread concern across Europe about reports of secret CIA “rendition” flights from European countries and claims that the CIA used some prisons in eastern Europe outside international law.
Source: BBC.
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