WASHINGTON - THE United States said on Wednesday it is 'very concerned' about the North Korean people but cannot send needed food aid without assurances from their Stalinist government that it will reach them.
WASHINGTON - PUBLIC opinion in Pakistan has turned sharply against the Taleban and other Islamist militants but Pakistanis still do not trust the United States and President Barack Obama, a poll showed on Wednesday.
The WorldPublicOpinion.org poll, conducted last month as Pakistan's army fought the Taleban in the Swat Valley, found that most Pakistanis see the Pakistani Taleban and al Qaeda as a critical threat to the nuclear-armed country.
TOKYO - NORTH Korea issued a fresh warning on Wednesday to Japan to stay clear of some of the communist country's coastal areas when Pyongyang conducts military exercises this month, the Japan Coast Guard said.
ISLAMABAD - A UN commission appointed to investigate the assassination of Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto began work on Wednesday, a spokesman said.
