AFP - The United States and Russia will announce Friday that they have reached an agreement on deeper cuts in their nuclear arsenals to be signed early next month in Prague, US media reported Friday.

AFP - US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitri Medvedev scheduled a telephone call Friday to finalize a new nuclear arms reduction agreement, capping months of thorny negotiations.

AFP - The government hailed Friday a Russia-US deal to cut long-range nuclear arms as "an important further step" towards a nuclear-free world -- and vowed to include its own atomic arsenal in future negotiations.

AFP - President Barack Obama's Democratic Senate allies on Friday quickly embraced a new US-Russia nuclear arms reduction treaty, as his Republican critics vowed to closely examine the accord.

Reuters - President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sealed an agreement on Friday on a landmark treaty to slash their nuclear arsenals by a third and will sign it on April 8 in Prague.

AFP - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday called for improved ties between Moscow and Vilnius as he met his Lithuanian counterpart in the first such talks in six years.