neutrinos
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A report by the human rights organisation Amnesty International says about 400 Afghans a day are fleeing their homes because of the armed conflict in the country. It says about half a million Afghans are now displaced. It also accuses Afghan officials of failing to let international aid agencies help the displaced. A senior Afghan official told the BBC that such allegations were
baseless
.
American officials have had their first direct talks with North Korea since Kim Jong-un took power after his father's death. The US envoy Glyn Davies described the talk as "serious and substantive". The United States is offering food aid in exchange for North Korea abandoning its nuclear arms programmes. Michael Bristow reports from Beijing.
The US envoy to these talks, Glyn Davies, said little following two meetings with North Korean officials in Beijing. He said the talks had covered a number of issues but didn't want to go into details. That discussions were "serious and substantive" was all he would say. The two sides are
due
to meet again on Friday.
The Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is to travel to Cuba on Friday for a new cancer operation. It's in the same area where he had a cancerous tumour removed last year. Mr Chavez has said the lesion is probably
malignant
and warned that he'll have to reduce his workload ahead of presidential elections in October. The Venezuelan leader had previously declared himself cancer-free.