NATO Cites Urgency in Reaching Pact Between U.S. and Afghanistan --- KABUL, Afghanistan — International officials signaled new urgency on Wednesday for the United States and Afghanistan to reach an agreement on a long-term security deal, but officials suggested that there had been little movement on either side of the deadlock. -- Coming out of a meeting with NATO foreign ministers in Brussels that included Afghanistan’s foreign and interior ministers, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the alliance’s secretary general, said there had been no progress on signing the bilateral security deal. -- More, nytimes