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SEOUL: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed North Korea Saturday to take the next step and give up its atomic weaponry after it disclosed some nuclear secrets and demolished part of its reactor. Rice said she and her South Korea counterpart Yu Myung Hwanu had extensive talks about efforts to verify the declaration, which covers nuclear facilities and the production of bomb-making plutonium, but not weapons. Earlier, the North blew up the cooling tower at its Yongbyon reactor in a televised event.
-- AFP
WASHINGTON: Taliban has regrouped and is likely to boost its presence in new areas of Afghanistan, a Pentagon report said Friday. According to the first report on the security situation in Afghanistan presented to Congress, the militants were still fighting in the south and eastern areas while pushing their frontline in other parts of the country. The Taliban will challenge the control of the Afghan government in rural areas, especially in the south and east.
-- Xinhua
JAKARTA: Indonesian rescuers battled fog and thick jungle Saturday to recover the bodies of 18 people, including three foreigners, killed in a plane crash at the base of a mountain, officials said. The Casa C-212 transport plane disappeared from radar screens at 3:03 p.m. on Thursday around Mount Salak in West Java about 40 kilometers south of Jakarta near the town of Bogor, officials said.
-- AFP
TOKYO: As many as 300 Internet warnings of mass murder and other death threats have been posted online in Japan after a knifing rampage in Tokyo left seven people dead, media said Saturday. The 25-year-old Tomohiro Kato, who went on a killing spree on June 8 in the popular Akihabara district, had earlier posted Internet messages about his anger and loneliness and foretold of his deadly plans before ramming a truck into a crowd of pedestrians and slashing shoppers with a knife.
-- AFP
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