Turkey angrily withdrew its US ambassador after a government committee backed a resolution branding the First World War-era killing of Armenians genocide.

President Barack Obama will today host talks with Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai in a bid for closer regional co-operation and a greater response to the Taliban insurgency.

North Korea has agreed to all US nuclear inspection demands and the Bush administration responded today by removing the communist country from a terrorism blacklist.

Turks took to the streets today in protest at an American decision to continue with a bill which describes the 90-year-old mass killings of Armenians as genocide.

Turkey’s head of state has protested a US congressional panel decision to approve a bill calling the First World War-era killings of Armenians a genocide, saying the decision came as a result of “petty domestic politics”.

A Japanese official responded to a US demand for a formal apology over wartime sex slavery practices by saying that Japan had already made amends.