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U.S., South Korea, Japan reject six-party talks on North Korea

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 05:24 PM PST

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with South Korean and Japanese diplomats to form a united front.

With tensions still high on the Korean peninsula, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday met with South Korean and Japanese diplomats in Washington in hopes of building a unified approach to respond to future provocations by North Korea.

Storied American jetliner languishes in obscurity — in South Korea

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 06:24 PM PST

The Juan T. Trippe, the first commercial 747 ever made, was briefly converted into a restaurant outside Seoul; now it sits idle and rusting. But aviation buffs have expressed interest in resurrecting the once-proud bird.

The big jet looks forlornly out of place perched in the near-deserted suburban lot, as if it just skidded off a nearby airport runway or crash-landed minutes ago.

Iran signals willingness to further discuss its nuclear program

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 12:00 AM PST

In what appears to be the bare minimum the six powers attending a two-day gathering could accept, Iranian officials say they want to dispel what they call misunderstandings about their program.

Iran signaled in talks with six powers on Monday that it was willing to enter a new round of discussions on its disputed nuclear program, but it stopped short of any deeper commitments, Western diplomats said.

U.S. denounces WikiLeaks' release of list of crucial overseas facilities

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 12:00 AM PST

Making the list public has threatened national security, officials say. Named are vaccine makers, undersea communications cables and mines that supply key metals.

U.S. officials on Monday denounced a WikiLeaks posting that catalogs hundreds of crucial overseas facilities that, if attacked by terrorists, could harm American interests — including vaccine makers, undersea communications cables and mines that supply key metals.

Continental, mechanic guilty of manslaughter in Concorde crash

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 12:00 AM PST

A French court rules that debris from a Continental plane caused the tragedy that left 113 dead 10 years ago near Paris.

A French court on Monday found Continental Airlines and one of its mechanics guilty of manslaughter in the deaths of 113 people who perished in the crash of a New York-bound Air France Concorde jet 10 years ago, ruling that debris from a Continental plane caused the tragedy.

Suicide bombers kill 41 in Pakistan

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 12:00 AM PST

The attack targets a meeting between leaders of an anti-Taliban militia and a top official in the Afghan-border region of Mohmand. More than 70 are injured.

A pair of suicide bombers attacked a large gathering of anti-Taliban elders inside a government compound in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 41 people in one of the worst terrorist strikes in the volatile tribal belt this year.

Assange's lawyer confirms talks with British police over rape allegations

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 01:34 PM PST

The lawyer for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was negotiating with British police on Monday to discuss the arrest warrant Sweden has issued for the man who unleashed a tidal wave of secret documents on the Internet.

Suicide bombers kill 41 in Pakistan

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 07:27 AM PST

The attack targets a meeting between leaders of an anti-Taliban militia and a top official in the Afghan-border region of Mohmand. More than 70 are injured.

A pair of suicide bombers attacked a large gathering of anti- Taliban elders inside a government compound in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 41 people in one of the worst terror strikes to hit the country's volatile tribal belt this year.

Talks begin on Iran's nuclear program

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 04:29 AM PST

Western officials see the Geneva meetings as a test of whether Iran is more willing to bend to international pressure.

Six major powers began talks with Iran here Monday in their latest attempt to persuade Tehran to accept limits on the nuclear research program the other nations suspect is aimed at building a bomb.