Washington - North Korea has taken a step toward further isolation by ending its cooperation with UN and US nuclear inspectors and requesting they leave the country, the US State Department said Wednesday.
State Department spokesman Robert Wood said the US team in North Korea to verify the disablement of the Stalinist country's nuclear programme was making plans to leave at Pyongyang's request.
Islamabad - Pakistan and Britain were embroiled in a diplomatic row on Wednesday as British officials showed reluctance to give consular access and share information about Pakistani terror suspects detained last week.
Twelve suspects, including 10 Pakistani-born students, were picked up in the north-western cities of Liverpool and Manchester, on suspicion of having links to terrorists and planning bomb attacks in England.
Prague - European Union environment officials Wednesday urged the world's major economies to join the 27-member bloc in its ambitious plans to curb global warming.
"We want to offer co-leadership to the United States and other important countries," said outgoing Czech Environment Minister Martin Bursik, whose country currently chairs the EU.
The call came some eight months before a United Nations conference in Copenhagen, which aims to set new targets for reducing emissions of gases heating up the planet.
Vienna - North Korea told the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Tuesday to stop monitoring its nuclear facilities as the country wants to restart its nuclear programme, IAEA spokesman Marc Vidricaire said. "The inspectors have also been asked to leave the DPRK at the earliest possible time," Vidricaire said, referring to the country's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Washington - North Korea's decision to withdraw from the six-nation negotations on its nuclear programme and reconstitute its atomic activities is a "step in the wrong direction," the White House said Tuesday. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs called on Pyongyang to live up to its agreement to abandon nuclear weapons after North Korea announced Tuesday it would no longer participate in the negotiations.
Washington - North Korea has taken a step toward further isolation by ending its cooperation with UN and US nuclear inspectors and requesting they leave the country, the US State Department said Wednesday.
Islamabad - Pakistan and Britain were embroiled in a diplomatic row on Wednesday as British officials showed reluctance to give consular access and share information about Pakistani terror suspects detained last week.
Damascus - A group of British parliamentarians met with exiled Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal in Damascus on Wednesday, Hamas said.
Prague - European Union environment officials Wednesday urged the world's major economies to join the 27-member bloc in its ambitious plans to curb global warming.
Vienna - North Korea told the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Tuesday to stop monitoring its nuclear facilities as the country wants to restart its nuclear programme, IAEA spokesman Marc Vidricaire said. "The inspectors have also been asked to leave the DPRK at the earliest possible time," Vidricaire said, referring to the country's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Washington - North Korea's decision to withdraw from the six-nation negotations on its nuclear programme and reconstitute its atomic activities is a "step in the wrong direction," the White House said Tuesday. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs called on Pyongyang to live up to its agreement to abandon nuclear weapons after North Korea announced Tuesday it would no longer participate in the negotiations.
