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As promised, North Korea has started moving fuel rods to a previously mothballed nuclear reactor, beginning a process that will to lead its activation.

Amid a row over its nuclear weapons program, North Korea's ruling party newspaper has fired a barb at Washington, saying the country is ready to deliver bitter defeat and death to a threatening United States.

North Korea has confirmed it has cut most of the seals placed on a deactivated nuclear reactor by international inspectors and has blocked monitoring equipment at the reactor.

North Korea is engaging in nuclear brinkmanship by moving to restart its reactor program in defiance of a 1994 agreement, the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog says.

North Korea is engaging in nuclear brinkmanship by moving to restart its reactor program in defiance of a 1994 agreement, the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog says.

North Korea announced Thursday it will immediately reactivate nuclear facilities shut down under a joint agreement with the United States, Japan and South Korea that Pyongyang regards as defunct, according to the state news agency.

North Korea is accusing the United States of unpardonable piracy following the seizure earlier this week of a ship carrying Scud missiles from North Korea to Yemen.

North Korea said Friday it has decided to expel International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors who have been monitoring its frozen nuclear facilities.

The refusal by the United States to negotiate with North Korea over its nuclear program could lead to an uncontrollable catastrophe, North Korea's state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper has warned.

Pakistan says it has postponed indefinitely a summit of South Asian leaders it was scheduled to host because India has not yet said whether it will attend.

Less than 24 hours after a suicide plot to attack U.S. diplomats in Pakistan was uncovered, a top official from Washington has arrived in the nation's capital.

Pakistani authorities have released the head of radical Kashmiri militant group Jaish-e Mohammed, a movement India blames on a string of deadly attacks.

Three girls were killed and 14 people were wounded in a grenade attack on a church holding a special Christmas Day service for women and children, police in this mostly Muslim country said Wednesday.

All 127 passengers were evacuated from a cruise ship off the Tahitian Islands Sunday following a fire in the engine room, a spokeswoman for the cruise line's owner said.

A suspect linked to the murder of journalist Daniel Pearl and the deadly bombing of the U.S. consulate in Karachi earlier this year died Thursday in an apparently accidental explosion, Pakistani police say.

The bombers who attacked a McDonald's restaurant in Indonesia last week may be part of the terror network that carried out the Bali bombing attacks in October.

Two people were killed and 15 others were wounded Monday in a blast in a crowded suburb of Mumbai, India, a police official said.

The prime minister of Bangladesh has ordered an investigation after at least 30 people died in a stampede Sunday.

South Korea's President-elect Roh Moo-hyun has come a long way from a ramshackle farming village to the Blue House presidential mansion.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin is continuing his Asian tour in India with a visit expected to focus on strengthening economic and anti-terrorist ties between the former Cold War allies.

North Korea is currently believed to be a producer of two types of Scud missiles.

South Korea's president-elect, Roh Moo-hyun, has warned that the proposed U.S. policy of tough economic sanctions against Pyongyang could backfire, adding to the already high tensions on the peninsula.

The ruling Hindu nationalist party has won one of the most emotionally and religiously charged elections in Indian history, recording a sweeping victory in the violence wracked western state of Gujarat.

Authorities investigating a fatal train derailment in southern India say they had discovered a sheared rail and were not excluding the possibility of sabotage.

The recent discovery of Scud missiles aboard a vessel that had sailed out of North Korea confirms U.S. suspicions that Pyongyang is a major weapons proliferator, but is not expected to alter U.S. policy toward the communist country.

Yemen says Scud missiles found on a North Korean ship were destined for its army, and has made a formal protest over the vessel's seizure to the United States.

South Korea has sent high-level delegates to China and Russia in a bid to increase pressure on Pyongyang to pull back from its current nuclear stance.

One dozen Scud missiles were found aboard a ship stopped in the Indian Ocean by a Spanish frigate that had to fire warning shots to keep the unflagged vessel from fleeing, U.S. and Spanish authorities said Tuesday.

Presidential election campaigns in South Korea are in high gear as the country prepares to go to the polls later this week.

North Korea expelled International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors Friday who have been monitoring its frozen nuclear facilities.

Uncertainty over North Korea's nuclear aims and dissatisfaction with the U.S. military presence are raising tensions in South Korea's capital.

Spanish Defense Minister Federico Trillo got an apology call from U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz for Spain's involvement in the seizure of a cargo ship carrying North Korean scud missiles bound for Yemen, a senior aide to Trillo told CNN Thursday.

Two Islamic militants, an Indian soldier and a civilian were killed during a confrontation between the two militants and the army Sunday in southern Kashmir, authorities said.

Indian police shot and killed two suspected terrorists near a checkpoint outside the Indian capital early Saturday after a 45-minute gun battle, a senior police official told CNN.

South Korea's President Kim Dae-jung has met his newly elected successor for their first transition talks amid a growing crisis over North Korea's nuclear program.

Terror suspect Ali Ghufron, also known as Mukhlas, has admitted to Indonesian police that he attended planning sessions for the Bali terror attack which left more than 180 people dead, most of them Westerners.

A gun battle between the Philippines army and suspected Abu Sayyaf guerrillas has left one soldier and two rebels dead in the southern Philippines.

Police in Pakistan have arrested three men alleged to have been preparing a suicide attack against two senior U.S. diplomats.

Three people were killed Thursday evening in a blast at a busy McDonald's in eastern Indonesia, one of two explosions in the town as the Muslim fast of Ramadan ended.

The North Korean army has brought light machine guns into the Demilitarized Zone, the United Nations Command on the Korean Peninsula said Friday -- a violation of agreements signed in 1953 at the end of the Korean War.

Al Qaeda is still able to receive money despite global efforts to combat the financing of terrorism and its members are still able to travel widely, according to a report released Wednesday by a U.N. Security Council panel of experts.

A senior U.S. envoy has arrived in Japan to build support from staunch Asian allies as well as China for possible U.S.-led military action against Iraq.

The White House says North Korea's refusal to let weapons inspectors into its nuclear facilities is disappointing.

The United States and Australia have reaffirmed their joint commitment to the war on terrorism in high-level talks in Sydney Friday that focused on Iraq, North Korea and Iran -- three nations that make up President Bush's so-called 'axis of evil'.

United States Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage has arrived in Sydney to discuss security issues amid continuing regional concern over Australia's heavy-handed approach to combating terrorism.

U.S. officials allowed a freighter with 15 Scud missiles aboard to proceed to Yemen Wednesday after the Yemeni government said it purchased the missiles from North Korea.

The United States says it had no intention of attacking North Korea but has rejected Pyongyang's call for negotiations on a nonaggression pact, saying North Korea must first take concrete steps to end its nuclear weapons program.

Two U.S. soldiers and their Afghan interpreter were wounded Tuesday when two Afghans threw a grenade at the jeep in which they were riding, Kabul's police chief and intelligence sources said.

A U.S. soldier is recovering Monday a day after he was grazed on his head by a bullet in an exchange of enemy gunfire, according to a statement from the U.S. military.

The Bush administration is not looking to escalate the standoff with North Korea over its nuclear program, a senior State Department official has said, but it will not give into blackmail either.