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1) The United States and North Korea agreed Tuesday to resume talks later this month over the North's nuclear weapons program. The six-country negotiations, scheduled to start in Beijing on Feb. 25, also include South Korea, China, Japan and Russia and are likely to focus on North Korea's offer to suspend its nuclear programs in return for a security guarantee and other concessions. A first round of talks in August ended without an agreement, and a follow-up session in December was postponed. |
| 2) Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin of France said on Tuesday that Muslim head scarves must be banned from public schools because they undermine the French republican ideal of freedom and equality. In introducing the divisive bill to ban most religious symbols from public schools, he rejected arguments from observant Muslims and Jews that their religions require head coverings and that the ban would violate their freedom of belief. |
| 3) The SCO Group started a new Web site yesterday, a day after the potent MyDoom computer worm knocked 'sco.com' off the Internet. The surprising severity of the MyDoom attack has sent a shiver through the Internet security community. In gathering an army of zombie PC's - many of which are unsuspecting home computer users - to silence an online target such as 'sco.com', MyDoom represents a new level of Internet warfare, security officials said. |
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