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...When asked by TIME about the possibility that the Arctic Sea was carrying a secret cargo, Vladimir Voronov, deputy head of Oy Solchart Management - the Helsinki-based, Russian-run company that operates the ship - replied, "I don't know anything about a secret cargo. We're just a simple shipping firm, and from what we understand, our ship was hijacked...
...July 28, ship managers based in Finland finally reported the hijacking to the Helsinki police, according to the MMA. Later that same day, the ship passed through the English Channel, communicating its position and speed to the British coast guard as dictated by standard procedure, with no mention of any trouble. The ship's Automatic Identification System, which relays the ship's position to authorities, was either switched off or broken. According to CNN, three days later, Swedish police phoned the ship and spoke to someone they believed to be the captain. When the ship failed to make its scheduled...
...official census has been taken since 1991, Sarajevo presents an increasingly Muslim face to the world. Thousands of Orthodox Serbs and Roman Catholic Croats fled the city during the war and have not returned. "The ethnic division has been really successfully done," says Srdan Dizdarevic, president of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina. "Kids are going to a mono-ethnic school, living in a mono-ethnic neighborhood and when they start work they'll be in mono-ethnic companies...
Dorm: Grays Hometown: Helsinki, Finland Relationship status: In a relationship Three words that describe you: I feel good Hottest trait: My blonde beard Claim to Harvard fame: I make quite an igloo Best part about becoming a sophomore: IM ice-hockey Fastest way to your heart: A smile :) What you miss most from the ‘90s: Kiss chase Your Gossip Girl crush: Gossip Girl
...registered to vote in the upcoming elections that will determine the fate of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is seeking a second term and a majority in Parliament for his Democratic Party. The fate of his vice president, Jusuf Kalla, who helped broker the Aceh peace agreement signed in Helsinki in August 2005, is less clear, as his Suharto-era Golkar party is struggling to maintain the same number of seats as it won in 2004, when it finished...