A meeting Wednesday of the rival Koreas' nuclear envoys could provide crucial momentum toward restarting disarmament talks, just months after the two countries were threatening to bomb each other into rubble.

Relations are still complicated and wariness lingers as the envoys prepare for face-to-face talks in Beijing that aim to build on their surprise meeting in July — which was seen as a small breakthrough after months of acrimony.

British police on Monday arrested seven people as part of a large intelligence-led anti-terror operation in the central city of Birmingham.

West Midlands police said six men were arrested overnight and were being held under anti-terror legislation. A woman was also arrested Monday morning for failing to disclose information that may be relevant. All seven suspects are aged between 22 and 32.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday Ankara would start offshore gas drilling off the divided island of Cyprus "very soon" after the Greek Cypriots said they had already begun.

"We will start this within our exclusive economic zone very soon, possibly this week," Erdogan told reporters.

The death toll from a 6.9-magnitude quake that hit the India-Nepal border has risen to 63, officials said Monday, with much of the affected area cut off by landslides.

At least 35 people were killed in India's northeastern state of Sikkim in Sunday's quake, Home Secretary R.K. Singh told a press briefing in New Delhi, while building collapses and landslides claimed another 13 lives in adjoining Indian states.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pressed Pakistan on Sunday to take action against Haqqani militants the United States blames for an attack on the U.S. embassy in Kabul, officials said.

Clinton met in New York with Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar for 3.5 hours of "very substantial" and "very candid" talks that began and ended with counter-terrorism, Clinton spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.

Eight people including six police officers were killed and several more wounded Monday in a car bomb attack targeting a senior policeman in Pakistan's financial capital Karachi, officials said.

Senior Superintendent Aslam Khan, who was unhurt but whose home was destroyed, told Agence France Presse he had been threatened by the Pakistani Taliban -- which is allied to al-Qaida -- and that he was the target of the attack.

At least 14 flights were delayed Monday at Qantas's Sydney Airport domestic terminal after two people entered a secure area without being properly screened, the airline said.

The security breach forced the re-screening of thousands of passengers, and followed similar incidents at both Sydney and Melbourne airports earlier this year.

The U.S. government is considering establishing a direct military hotline with Iran after a series of close encounters between U.S. and Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf, The Wall Street Journal reported late Sunday.

Citing unnamed U.S. officials the newspaper, on its website, said the United States is especially worried about a fleet of speedboats likely controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Tehran's elite military force.

Thousands of Flemish nationalists marched Sunday under tight security on the outskirts of Brussels to stake their claim to a part of Belgium at the heart of the country's linguistic feud.

Amid a sea of yellow-and-black flags and balloons -- the colors of northern Dutch-speaking Flanders -- separatists clamored "Our country!" through the largely French-speaking streets of Lindebeek as police helicopters hovered ahead and 300 officers stood watch.

Turkey will freeze its relations with the EU if Cyprus takes the union's rotating presidency next year before a solution is reached on the divided island, the deputy prime minister said late Saturday.

"If the negotiations (on Cyprus) do not end positively and the EU handovers the presidency to southern Cyprus, the main crisis will be between the EU and Turkey. Because then we will freeze our relations with the EU," Anatolia news agency quoted Besir Atalay as saying in a TV interview in northern Cyprus.