SEOUL - SOUTH and North Korea failed to reach agreement on Friday on holding more family reunions after Pyongyang sought humanitarian aid from Seoul, officials said.
The two sides 'failed to bridge differences on their stances on further reunions' but agreed to arrange more talks, an official with Seoul's unification ministry told Yonhap news agency.
THAIS outnumber other Southeast Asians in radical Islamic schools in Pakistan, a trend that could have an impact on the insurgency in southern Thailand, a leading terrorism expert said on Friday.
Sidney Jones, a Jakarta-based senior adviser with the International Crisis Group think tank, said that in one school in the Karachi area, a list showed that nine Thais, four Malaysians and one Indonesian were among the students.
CILEGON (Indonesia) - A POWERFUL 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the western end of Indonesia's Java island on Friday, shaking office buildings in Jakarta, officials said.
The quake struck off the coast near Ujung Kulon, about 260 kilometres (162 miles) west of the capital Jakarta, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, officials said.
ISLAMABAD - PAKISTANI forces attacked the Taleban in their South Waziristan stronghold with aircraft and artillery on Friday as an explosion killed six people near a police station in Peshawar, the government and a witness said.
The government says a ground offensive against the Pakistani Taleban in their South Waziristan lair is imminent and the army has been stepping up its air and artillery attacks in recent days to soften up the militants' defences.
