Word: guinea
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...CHARGED. MARK THATCHER, 51, the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, with helping to finance an alleged coup attempt in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea; in Cape Town, South Africa. Authorities say Thatcher allegedly bankrolled the purchase of a helicopter in a plot to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, for which 14 suspected mercenaries are currently standing trial in the Equatorial Guinean capital, Malabo. Thatcher, under house arrest in Cape Town, has denied the allegations...
...catching Thatcher in his pajamas. For the next seven hours they searched his house, including, reportedly, a bedroom-sized safe with reinforced steel walls, examining documents and hard drives for evidence that Thatcher was connected to a failed coup attempt in the oil-rich central African state of Equatorial Guinea. Thatcher was taken to a magistrate's court and charged under South Africa's Regulation of Foreign Military Assistance Act. The day's final insult came while Thatcher was waiting for his hearing at which he promised to post bail of $300,000: other prisoners reportedly stole his shoes...
...believed to have departed from Libya and carrying 275 migrants was intercepted off the coast of the Sicilian island of Lampedusa . Polio Resurgent AFRICA The World Health Organization warned of the threat of a polio epidemic as the virus returned to two countries where it had previously been eradicated. Guinea and Mali brought to 12 the total of formerly polio-free nations that have seen new cases of the disease since January 2003. The outbreak dealt a blow to the WHO's goal of eradicating polio worldwide by the end of 2004. Stormy Season TAIWAN Rescuers searched for survivors...
...other part of Australia's frontier is as closely watched by authorities as the Torres Strait, a shallow sea spanning the 150 km from the tip of Cape York to the coast of Papua New Guinea and flanked by the Coral Sea to the east and the Arafura Sea to the west. Scattered across the Strait like stepping stones are 138 islands, only 17 of which are inhabited. This region, many of whose 8,000 Australian residents follow traditional indigenous lifestyles, seems a tranquil tropical idyll. But for professional border-watchers - officials of the Australian Customs Service, Federal Police, Quarantine...
...woman. "That voice," Lou says with a sneer, "is the closest thing I'm ever gonna come to working with a broad." When the house gets assigned a rookie named Mike, the veterans complain that there are already too many Mikes in the department--Mike the Mick, Guinea Mike, Mike...