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China and Russia have opposed a U.S. move to have the U.N. Security Council condemn North Korea for pulling out of a nuclear nonproliferation treaty.

The United States says it is frustrated with Pakistan's failure to stop Islamic militants from crossing into Indian-controlled Kashmir.

The United States has accused Pakistan's largest nuclear facility of helping an unidentified country's weapons of mass destruction program.

A bomb dropped by a U.S. warplane missed its intended target in southern Afghanistan early Wednesday, killing 11 civilians and wounding another, a U.S. military statement said.

The United States and North Korea will meet face to face for the first time in over six months, holding multilateral talks in Beijing next week, according to an Bush administration official.

U.S. and North Korean officials have begun three days of talks in Beijing to discuss Pyongyang's alleged nuclear weapons program.

A high-level U.S. delegation is now headed to China for talks with North Korea on Pyongyang's nuclear program and how to bring stability to the Korean peninsula.

Vietnam will become the first country to contain the SARS outbreak if it reaches Monday without a new case, the World Health Organization has said.