Oh buggery bloody hell! Just as the current nasty little one is coming to its inconclusive conclusion ...

UN to discuss Korean crisis

"The UN Security Council is set to discuss the North Korean nuclear crisis, amid belligerent messages from Pyongyang and divisions among its own members on how to move forward.

The United States has been pressing the UN to take up North Korea since October, when North Korea expelled nuclear inspectors and restarted a nuclear reactor.

China and Russia are against the very idea of the Security Council meeting, arguing that it will only serve to inflame an already volatile and dangerous situation."

Stand by everybody, don't pack up the khaki just yet.

STOP THE WHIRL, I WANT TO GET OFF!

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"Coalition bomb kills 11 Afghan civilians"

The US military says 11 Afghan civilians, seven of them women, have been killed in bombing by US-led coalition forces in eastern Afghanistan.

"I think it was a mistake," said provincial governor Mohammad Ali Jalali.

Spot on Mr. Ali. The incompetent fools were supposed to be bombing civilians in Baghdad.