North Korea’s No. 2 leader, Kim Yong Nam, reiterated Thursday his country’s pledge to abandon its nuclear weapons, as the impoverished nation sought a resumption of aid at its first high-level talks with South Korea since conducting an atomic test.
A still skittish Wall Street staged a comeback Thursday, with the Dow Jones industrials erasing almost all of 209-point drop after an upbeat assessment of manufacturing activity eased some worries about a flagging U.S. economy.
The United States said Thursday that top anti-terror allies Afghanistan, Pakistan and Colombia had fallen short in the war on drugs despite enhanced counter-narcotics efforts and it criticized perennial foes Iran, North Korea and Venezuela for not cooperating.
A 7-year-old girl was killed when tornadoes swept through southern Missouri at dawn Thursday, damaging homes and businesses and leaving several people missing a few hours after another twister touched down in Kansas, authorities said.
Two-star general in charge of Walter Reed Army Medical Center has been relieved of command Thursday, following disclosures about inadequate treatment of wounded soldiers, the U.S. army said.
