A round-up of other world news in brief
China to press North Korea on nuclear talks
SEOUL – A senior Chinese Communist Party official will visit North Korea as early as today, in what appears to be a move to press Pyongyang to return to nuclear disarmament talks, a South Korean news agency said yesterday.
The North said separately it was releasing a US activist it had held since December, clearing an obstacle between North Korea and its most important dialogue partner, the United States, that could have harmed negotiations. – (Reuters)
'Major role' for Blair in election
LONDON – Former British prime minister Tony Blair has a major role to play in the Labour Party’s re-election campaign over the coming months, his successor, Gordon Brown, said in an interview yesterday.
Mr Blair has been largely absent from British politics since he stepped down in 2007. – (Reuters)
New move on Air France wreckage
PARIS – International search teams will later this month try to find wreckage from an Air France airliner that crashed into the sea last year killing all 228 people aboard, French officials said yesterday. Three specialised vessels will be dispatched to search an area off the coast of Brazil. – (Reuters)