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...evidence emerged that 20 scientists and military defectors may have been smuggled out of North Korea over the past six months - suggesting that the U.S. intelligence might always have had the upper hand. The reported operation to spirit out the defectors was complex, involving the Pacific island state of Nauru and 10 other countries. Kyong Won-ha, one of Pyongyang's top nuclear scientists, defected in early October - the same time that the U.S. was confronting North Korea with evidence that it had restarted its nuclear weapons program, precipitating the current crisis. There was one final hiccup late last week...
...NAURU Refugee Standoff Australia's strategy of sending asylum seekers to the Pacific island of Nauru suffered a setback when 200 Palestinians and Iraqis refused to disembark from an Australian navy ship. The group left H.M.A.S. Manoora after a 12-day standoff, but not before the U.N. said it would not process any further boatloads bound for Australia and diverted to Nauru...
AUSTRALIA Asylum Seekers at Sea Aweeklong standoff over a refugee-laden ship ended after Australia devised a plan to send some 460 asylum seekers to other countries. New Zealand agreed to accept 150 of the migrants, while Australia will foot the bill for the tiny Pacific nation of Nauru to take the rest temporarily. The refugees had been in watery limbo ever since a Norwegian cargo ship, the Tampa, rescued them from a foundering wooden ferry off the Indonesian coast. They demanded that the skipper take them to the Australian territory of Christmas Island or to "any Western country...
...most just recently is the OECD's "harmful tax competition" review, which demands more transparency, greater exchange of tax information and an end to ring-fencing, under which nonresidents enjoy preferential tax treatment. In June it produced a provisional black list of 35 jurisdictions that included Nauru, Barbados and Liberia - and the Isle of Man. This triggered much indignant huffing and puffing from the island, which maintained it had no reason to be on the list and that other inquiries had put it in the top division for good practices. Says Gregory Jones, tax partner at accountants KPMG: "We genuinely...
...streets in Sydney and Tokyo, while demonstrators in Manila burned a French flag. Japan's Finance Minister Masayoshi Takemura called the French action "crazy." Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating branded it "an act of stupidity." Chile and New Zealand recalled their ambassadors. The tiny Pacific island nations of Tuvalu, Nauru and Kiribati broke off relations with Paris. Washington showed more restraint, expressing "regrets," while Bonn and London refrained from outright criticism...