Famine has spread to three new regions of Somalia, including the capital Mogadishu and the world's largest camp for displaced people, owing to a harsh drought ravaging the Horn of Africa, the United Nations said Wednesday.

The new areas include two sites where hundreds of thousands of Somalis have fled in desperate search of food as internally displaced people (IDP).

The North Korean minister who traveled to New York for talks last week said he was satisfied with the outcome and called for more discussions on resuming a stalled nuclear forum, a report said Wednesday.

First vice foreign minister Kim Kye-Gwan held talks in New York with U.S. officials led by the U.S. special envoy on North Korea, Stephen Bosworth, last Thursday and Friday in the first high-level bilateral contact since 2009.

France confirmed Wednesday that it has issued an extradition order to send Panamanian ex-strongman Manuel Noriega -- currently serving a French jail term for laundering drug money -- back home.

Noriega has three convictions for human rights violations in Panama, dating to his military rule there from 1983 to 1989. Each conviction carries a 20-year prison sentence.

The center-right Diko party in Cyprus said on Wednesday it was pulling out of the government after talks with President Demetris Christofias collapsed.

"The dialogue has terminated, Diko's cooperation with the president has ended," Diko leader Marios Garoyian told reporters.

Bomb squad officers were Wednesday working to defuse a "suspicious device" at a Sydney house that media reports said was strapped to a terrified teenager.

Police were alerted by an 18-year-old woman in the exclusive suburb of Mosman and were in the house with fire crews and paramedics on standby.

A helicopter crashed on the University of Cape Town's campus Wednesday morning, but all four people inside walked from the wreckage without major injury, local media said.

"The helicopter has been destroyed and was found lying on its left side," emergency service ER24 spokesman Andre Visser told the Sapa news agency.

"Mission accomplished," were among the few words Anders Behring Breivik said in a call to police after he massacred 69 people on the island of Utoeya, near Oslo, a Norwegian newspaper reported Wednesday.

"Breivik. Commander. Involved in the anti-communist resistance against Islamisation. Mission accomplished and I will surrender to the Delta force:" were the words used by the 32-year-old rightwing extremist in his call to the police emergency number 112 on July 22, the Verdens Gang (VG) daily reported.

A Guatemalan court sentenced four former military officers to 6,060 years in prison each on Tuesday for the slaughter of more than 200 civilians in 1982 during the country's civil war.

"This court unanimously declared the accused as perpetrators of murder. For this crime, a sentence of 30 years in prison for each victim comes to a total of 6,030 years," the court said in its decision.

Belarus on Tuesday gave a cool reception to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's surprise announcement he favors a merger between the two countries into one state as in the days of the USSR.

The opposition raised the alarm over what it said were Russian dreams to essentially annex Belarus while sociologists said that support for re-unification with Russia was dwindling in the country year-by-year.

NATO has asked for troop reinforcements for Kosovo, a spokesman said Tuesday but denied the demand was linked to the recent unrest in the volatile north.

"We can control the situation (in the north), we have enough troops. It is not because of our inability to control the situation. Our soldiers deployed on the ground will need some relief ... and we need (new troops) to back up the soldiers," as reserves, KFOR spokesman Hans Dieter Wichter told Agence France Presse.