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...already displaying customary prickliness after South Korea gave asylum last month to 468 North Korean defectors who had fled their homeland and taken temporary refuge in Vietnam. South Korea's policy of peaceful dialogue with the North has been chilled by the controversy, which prompted Pyongyang to accuse its neighbor of "international terrorism and an unpardonable human-rights abuse." Fearing the North might do more than hurl invective, South Korean intelligence officials issued an unusual warning last week that Pyongyang could launch a terrorist strike against South Korean citizens who aid refugees. South Korea has long blamed the North...
...India that pioneered the use of sanctuaries to save big cats. In 1973, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi became the toast of the conservation community when she launched Project Tiger, setting aside nine wilderness areas for tigers. Now India, with its neighbor Nepal, is leading the way in the next big phase in cat conservation: building links to turn isolated preserves into one continuous habitat. Scientists call this approach landscape conservation, and many believe it's the best hope for saving the world's tiger population, which, despite decades of effort, remains in peril: only 5,000 to 7,000 animals...
...Florida, where it had been kept by Steve Sipek, 62, who played Tarzan in movies in the 1960s and '70s. Wildlife officials shot and killed the animal. More tragically, last December a 10-year-old boy in Millers Creek, N.C., was killed by a tiger owned by a neighbor. The boy's uncle shot and killed the tiger...
...would anyone have thought that the cross-border traffic of illegal drugs would become one of the knottiest areas of disagreement between the U.S. and its northern neighbor. An estimated 880 to 2,200 tons of marijuana are grown in Canada, according to a new report from Canadian police. About 90% of the commercial crop winds up in the U.S., where its street value ranges from $5 billion to $25 billion. Although only 5% of pot in the U.S. comes from Canada, the trade is flourishing because of high demand in the U.S. and the comparatively mild punishments in Canada...
...home in the Pakistani town of Gujrat. It had been inhabited by three al-Qaeda members wanted by the U.S. for their roles in the African embassy bombings in 1998, men who had been fingered by Khan. Inside the besieged house--"The whole night there was shooting," said a neighbor--the three al-Qaeda men made futile efforts to burn a cache of computer discs in their possession, but a relentless barrage of gunfire and tear gas pinned them down. When their ammunition ran out 16 hours later, the al-Qaeda operatives surrendered with their wives and five small children...