NATO close to pact on Kosovo
NATO members are close to agreeing that military intervention over Kosovo would be legal under international law, a NATO official said on Friday night. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said he was ```expecting a consensus any moment'' on a `legal basis' for NATO action in Yugoslavia.

Saudi funds behind Laden attacks: US
Osama Bin Laden receives millions from the Saudi Arabian royalty to subsidise his anti-Western campaign of terrorist attacks, according to US intelligence officials.

Seoul scraps plans to buy US planes
South Korea's military has scrapped plans to buy more US-made anti-submarine planes after it lost a legal battle to recoup millions of dollars in losses on an earlier contract, reports said on Friday.

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