New York, Sept 6: Indian Ambassador to the United Nations Nirupam Sen has said a determined action is needed to root out terrorist networks and deter regimes from encouraging and harbouring armed extremists.

Speaking at the UN General Assembly on Friday, Sen termed terrorism as a "pervasive and insidious" threat to global security and core values of the UN.

The Ambassador urged the world to act as one in denying terrorists, their ideologues and financiers access to arms, funds and means of transportation of their deadly goods and safe havens.

Washington, Sep 6: Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has said that he will win the White House race if he wins Pennsylvania. He was speaking to workers after touring Voit Siemens Hydro Power Generation plant.

“If you vote for me, I think we will win Pennsylvania. If we win Pennsylvania, we'll win the election,” Obama said.

Washington, Sept 6 : US military officials have reportedly said that strikes in Pakistan’s FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) will increase in the coming months as “such cross-border raids were necessary” to counter increasing violence in Afghanistan.

According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, the cross-border US commando missions, like Wednesday’s strike in Wana killing around 20 civilians, into Pakistan may grow in coming months despite doubts within the Pentagon over the efficacy of such raids.

Pentagon officials who spoke to Los Angeles Times said that some officials in the US Defence Department believed such commando raids were necessary to counter increasing violence in Afghanistan.

Washington, Sep 6 : Senator Joseph I. Lieberman is among several national security experts helping brief Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin on foreign policy issues as she prepares to hit the campaign trail.

Palin will be going for a debate with her Democratic opponent Joseph R. Biden Jr. in less than a month, the Washington Post quoted officials from Sen. John McCain’s campaign, as saying.

Washington, Sept 6 : Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has said that if he one this year’s presidential poll, he would increase pressure on Pakistan in the hunt for Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.

He also said that he would ask Pakistan to “do more” in the US-led global war-on-terror.

“What we can do is stay focused on Afghanistan and put more pressure on the Pakistanis,” the Daily Times quoted Obama as saying in a TV interview.

Obama also vowed to be tough on the nation’s enemies, including Iran, added the paper.

Washington, Sep 6: Iraqi leaders and officials have expressed disappointment over a report that US had spied on Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other top leaders.

“If it is true, it reflects that there is no trust and it reflects also that the institutions in the United States are used to spying on their friends and their enemies in the same way,” said Ali al-Dabbagh, spokesman of the Iraqi Government.

“We will ask for an explanation,” the Washington Post quoted Dabbagh, as saying.