RUSSIA -- A Russian rights ombudsman said Thursday that Russian and U.S. negotiators have agreed to set up licensed adoption agencies and allow monitors to visit the homes of adopted children as part of a new accord, but the State Department said no deal had been reached. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the Moscow talks will be extended. New adoptions of Russians by U.S. parents virtually stopped after an incident in April in which a Tennessee adoptive mother put a 7-year-old boy on a plane back to Russia unaccompanied by an adult. -- The Associated Press

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