BUSAN, South Korea - In a show of unity, President Bush and South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun declared today that a nuclear-armed North Korea "will not be tolerated" and agreed that the problem should be resolved through peaceful and diplomatic means.
The two leaders spoke at a news conference in Gyeongju, the ancient capital of Korea. About 40 demonstrators, some carrying signs that read "Bush get out," gathered to protest the president's visit and the U.S. military's plans to relocate its main base in South Korea to a city outside Seoul.
Bush and Roh met ahead of a 21-nation trade and economic summit whose members include the leaders of the five countries - the United States, China, South Korea, Russia and Japan - negotiating with North Korea for its nuclear disarmament.
Roh called his fifth meeting with Bush "constructive."
Bush flew here for the annual summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, representing 21 countries that account for about half the world's trade.
Britain to extradite terror suspect to U.S.
LONDON - British officials on Wednesday ordered the extradition to the United States of Babar Ahmad, a high-profile terror suspect who faces U.S. charges of using the Internet to support the al-Qaida terrorist network and other Islamic extremists.
Ahmad, 31, arrested by British police in August 2004, would be the first person sent to the United States under a controversial 2003 law that allows certain governments to extradite suspects without providing evidence of guilt, according to Gareth Crossman of Liberty, a British human rights organization.
Ahmad, a computer engineer, is in a London-area prison. His family said it would appeal the decision to the British High Court.
According to a U.S. indictment filed in Connecticut in October 2004, Ahmad used a network of Web sites to solicit donations for rebels in Chechnya and the Taliban militia in Afghanistan. It also alleged that he arranged for training and transportation of Islamic fighters and bought camouflage suits, gas masks and other equipment for them.
U.S. officials claimed jurisdiction because Ahmad allegedly used Internet service providers in Connecticut and Nevada.
Iran says satellite capable of spying on Israel
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran said the satellite would be purely scientific. But a month after its launch - and only weeks after the president said Israel should be wiped off the map - the head of Tehran's space program now says the Sina-1 is capable of spying on the Jewish state.
As it orbits the Earth some 14 times a day from an altitude around 600 miles, with controllers able to point its cameras as they wish, Sina-1 gives Iran a limited space reconnaissance capability over the entire Middle East, including Israel.
Deputy Telecom Minister Ahmad Talebzadeh, who heads the space program, agreed it could spy on Israel. "Technically speaking, yes. It can monitor Israel," he told The Associated Press. "But we don't need to do it. You can buy satellite photos of Israeli streets from the market."
The satellite could be a response to Israel's Ofek-5 spy satellite, which overflies and monitors activities in Iran, Iraq and Syria.
French arson attacks continue to fall
PARIS - Parliament gave final approval Wednesday to extending France's state of emergency for three months after the government said the powers are still needed to end the country's worst civil unrest in four decades.
Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy told the Senate that tensions in troubled neighborhoods justified continued state of emergency powers.
The number of towns affected by unrest dropped to 79 overnight, down from 102 the previous night and more than 300 at the peak of the unrest, he said.
"Seventy-nine is naturally too many," Sarkozy added. "The future cannot be built on violence."
Suicide car bomber kills three Afghans
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A suicide bomber rammed a car laden with explosives into a convoy carrying Westerners in the main southern city of Kandahar on Wednesday, killing three Afghan civilians and wounding four others, officials said.
The attack came two days after militants used twin suicide car bombs to attack NATO peacekeepers in the capital, Kabul.
Authorities blamed al-Qaida for those blasts, which killed a German peacekeeper and eight Afghans.
