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...route to Indonesia, Yemen and the Arabian Gulf. According to diplomats, a few al-Qaeda fugitives may have been given money and transport to get out of Pakistan by sympathetic staff at an Arab consulate in Karachi. Bangladeshi intelligence sources say that in the same month, a Saudi-owned vessel smuggled 150 al-Qaeda and Taliban members out of Karachi to the Bangladeshi port of Chittagong...
...June 29, the Golden Sea became a battle zone after North Korean patrol boats slipped into the area and engaged three South Korean naval vessels. In the battle that ensued, a North Korean shell hit a South Korean vessel, killing its commanding officer and three other sailors. A fourth crew member is still listed as missing; 19 others were wounded. And those were just the immediate casualties of the fracas. Last week, South Korea President Kim Dae Jung hurriedly sacked his Minister of Defense and reshuffled his Cabinet after a public outcry over the navy's handling of the skirmish...
...goal to carve out a Muslim state in the southern Philippines. President Arroyo also announced that the army had overrun four Abu Sayyaf camps on the island of Jolo. SOUTH KOREA Border Battle At least four South Korean soldiers were killed and 19 injured when a North Korean naval vessel sank a South Korean military speedboat on patrol in the Yellow Sea. North Korean officials said that shots were fired only defensively, and both sides claimed that the battle - the worst in three years - took place in their respective territorial waters. AUSTRALIA Mass Breakout More than 30 asylum seekers went...
...Wardak. When Wardak sought to go to his new ministry, police loyal to his predecessor briefly blocked the road. SOUTH AFRICA Ice Rescue A South African ship set out for the Antarctic to rescue 107 crew and passengers, including 79 members of a Russian research expedition, on board a vessel trapped in pack ice. Though the stricken ship has fuel for 45 days, it began to ration its food supplies. The rescuers worried about ice storms and the lack of daylight at this time of year in Antarctica. The South Africans are taking two military helicopters on the voyage...
...that Egyptian officials are talking about an international tour and a permanent museum of underwater archaeology in Alexandria. Recently, as his latest Herakleion mission was winding down, Goddio, who is 54 and lives in Paris, stood in shorts and a baseball cap on the deck of his survey vessel, Princess Duda, watching as a red granite naos was hoisted on board. "We cannot identify it yet," he explains. "We hope to discover some more clues about it during the next excavation." Most archaeologists could consider the discovery the achievement of a lifetime. For Goddio, it was another day's work...