US PRESIDENT Barack Obama warned of “serious issues” over the disputed Afghan elections and said North Korea’s Kim Jong-Il seemed “healthy and in control”, in a media blitz yesterday ahead of a week of international summitry.

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi said it would be best for international troops to leave Afghanistan soon, after a bomb blast in Kabul killed six of his country’s soldiers.

THERE were fears last night Irish UN worker Annetta Flanigan and her fellow hostages may have been taken to separate locations as her captors seek to evade Afghan authorities.