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And Australia’s new Prime Minister is hard at it: On his first day in office, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd started work on plans to sign the Kyoto Protocol. His predecessor, the conservative John Howard, refused to sign the agreement. Japan is pleased with the decision to sign the Kyoto Protocol. Tokyo says relations with […]

This has the makings of a big international political argument: TOKYO (Reuters) – North Korea will not return to six-way talks on its nuclear programme unless the United States ends its financial crackdown on Pyongyang’s assets, Kyodo news agency quoted a senior North Korean official as saying. “Under such pressure, we cannot return to the […]