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SEOUL – North Korea said it wants to reach a peace treaty quickly to replace the ceasefire that ended the 1950-53 Korean War in order to build trust with the United States and revive dormant nuclear disarmament talks.
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LUANDA – Angola intends to crush FLEC insurgents who claimed the killing of two members of the Togo national soccer delegation, and pursue rebels living abroad, a government minister said.
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LONDON – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown tried to stamp his authority on his ruling Labour Party after surviving a plot to depose him less than five months before an election that he is expected to lose.
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KABUL – Six members of the NATO-led military force in Afghanistan were killed in two battles with insurgents and a roadside bomb attack, making it one of the bloodiest days for foreign troops in months.
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HONG KONG – Five Hong Kong lawmakers will resign from the legislature in late January in a bid to pressure China to grant the former British colony greater and swifter democratic concessions, a spokesman announced.
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WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to the South Pacific this week, working to boost key US alliances while pressing Japan to resolve a damaging dispute over a critical US military base.
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SYDNEY – A Chinese investigation into a detained Australian Rio Tinto Ltd executive and three colleagues has been sent to prosecutors, Australia’s foreign office and the mining company said.
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ROME – On his first day back at work almost a month after he was attacked, Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was busy working out a three-pronged strategy to regain his immunity from prosecution.
