<B>MEXICO DAILY

Get ready for freak weather, world?s polluters</B>

The world?s top polluting nations were told on Wednesday to prepare for decades of weather turmoil, even if they act now to curb emissions and pursue green energy sources. Environment and energy ministers meeting in the Mexican city of Monterrey vowed to work faster to control global warming as scientists told them each year wasted in curbing greenhouse gas emissions would cost them dearly.The informal talks did not set emissions-cutting targets, but delegates agreed on the need to expand the global carbon trading market to provide investment for green initiatives.British Environment Secretary David Miliband said scientists told the meeting that if no action is taken, carbon dioxide emissions would more than double by 2050.Yet even if countries froze emission levels tomorrow, the world still faces 30 years of floods, heatwaves, hurricanes and coastal erosion, the British government?s chief scientific advisor David King, said. King, who considers global warming a bigger threat than terrorism, said rich nations must help the developing world prepare for a weather shift that could put millions of lives at risk. Among countries who sent ministers to Monterrey were China and India, whose ballooning demand for energy has made them some of the worst polluters after the United States, which pumps out a quarter of the world?s greenhouse gases.The United States, which could face fiercer hurricanes as sea temperatures rise, sent a senior official, but US officials did not brief the press.

<B>North korea daily</B>

<B>US weighs sanction against North Korea</B>

The Bush administration is developing an extensive list of possible new sanctions against North Korea in the event that it carries through with its threat to conduct a nuclear test, senior officials said Thursday. The measures under consideration include renewing efforts that have been unsuccessful in the past - persuading South Korea and China to cut off energy supplies and trade - and potentially confrontational steps that include intercepting and inspecting sea shipments into and out of the country. Many of the sanctions have been considered before, as part of a long-running argument within the Bush administration over the best way to deal with North Korea. After a series of emergency meetings, including one on Tuesday at the White House, officials on each side of that debate said a nuclear test would end the argument about whether the United States should emphasize rewards or penalties. «If the test happens, all the arguments are over,» said one senior official in the midst of the debate, «we?ll end up going to full-scale sanctions». The only debate is what «full-scale» means.

<B>The new york times</B>

<B>Hastert, a political survivor vows to overcome scandal</B>

J. Dennis Hastert, who was installed as House speaker eight years ago through backroom maneuvering in a moment of crisis for his party, has no distinct power base in Congress, not much of a national reputation and, in an age of television politics, little polish in front of the camera.. Hastert has survived and survived to become the longest-serving Republican speaker. And on Thursday, standing outside his district office in Batavia, Ill., he made it clear that he did not intend to become a casualty of the Mark Foley scandal, saying he expected to win re-election to his seat and run for speaker again when the new Congress convenes in January.Mr. Hastert made his statement soon after the leaders of the House ethics committee promised a vigorous investigation into the handling of the Foley case, approved dozens of subpoenas and said they expected to finish their work in weeks. Mr. Foley, a Florida Republican, resigned from the House last Friday after being confronted by ABC News with sexually explicit messages he had sent to teenage pages

<B>Russia daily</B>

<B>Putin warns of using language of blackmail against Russia</B>

Russia will not submit to blackmail from anyone, Russia?s president said in a clear reference to a diplomatic row with Georgia over spying allegations.T he president?s statement comes in the wake of a scandal that began when Georgian police detained four Russian officers and charged them with espionage last week. Although the officers were handed over to the OSCE and then Russia Monday, diplomatic tensions between Moscow and Tbilisi have persisted. «I would not recommend that anyone use the language of provocation and blackmail against Russia,» Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with senior members of the lower house of parliament, who considered a draft statement on Georgia Wednesday.