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MOSCOW : Reports that North Korea is producing plutonium for atomic weapons are not new and should not be ‘over dramatised’ amid efforts to restart disarmament talks, the Russian foreign ministry said Friday. “Reports on the production and so-called weaponization of plutonium from spent fuel rods… can hardly be seen as a favorable atmosphere for the start of talks,” ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko told a briefing. “However, we wanted to urge against this fact being over dramatized because such measures by Pyongyang are essentially nothing new.” “We are counting on our colleagues in North Korea and the United States being able to find a common denominator within a fairly short timescale,” he added.

WASHINGTON : A cousin of the army psychiatrist who went on a shooting rampage that killed 13 people in Fort Hood, Texas, expressed shock over the event, in a statement released Friday. Major Nidal said, “I wanted to issue a statement on behalf of my family,” Major said in a message posted on The Washington Post website, noting that he was writing because the shooter’s parents had died. “We are shocked and saddened by the terrible events at Fort Hood today