Libya has agreed to halt military trade with North Korea, Syria and Iran, US Undersecretary of State John Bolton said in Washington.

THE chief North Korean delegate to talks with South Korea hinted yesterday he was unwilling to discuss his country’s suspected nuclear weapons

Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida terror network continues to pose a serious threat, as shown by the arrest of an American suspected of preparing a ‘‘dirty’’ bomb attack on the US, Attorney General John Ashcroft said today.

The US Attorney General today said the American arrested on suspicion of plotting to detonate a ‘dirty’ radiological bomb in the US was a key al-Qaida operative who has ‘‘very significant information’’ about the terror network.