Kyrgyz Parliament Approves Plan to Close U.S. Air Base
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MOSCOW, Feb. 19 — The Kyrgyzstan parliament voted Thursday to close a U.S. air base that the Pentagon had hoped to use to expand NATO operations in Afghanistan and reduce the need to ship supplies through a dangerous corridor in Pakistan. But U.S. officials said they had not given up hope on a deal to keep the base open.
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