India renews call for UN Security Council seat

INDIA'S visiting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh renewed calls for New Delhi to be given a permanent seat on the UN Security Council as he visited Mauritius to seal a number of cooperation pacts. "India has the will and the capacity to be a permanent member of the Security Council," he said in an address to the Mauritius parliament on the second of a four-day official visit to the Indian Ocean island nation.

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N.Korea wants explicit US apology before talks

NORTH KOREA wants an open and explicit U.S. apology for calling it an outpost of tyranny as a precondition for returning to nuclear talks, its senior envoy to the United Nations was quoted as saying on Friday.

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