| Fri, 10 Oct 2008 US twists arms, Pyongyang plays footsie
| By Donald Kirk | SEOUL - The semi-crisis over the restart of North Korea's nuclear weapons program is reaching D-Day - as in Decision Day - with the sense that the United States is pressing hard for a compromise over skepticism from South Korea and objections by Japan... | Hijackers of ship off Somalia threaten to blow it up in 3 days if ransom ...
| NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) _ A spokesman for the group of pirates holding an arms-laden tanker off the coast of Somalia has threatened to blow up the ship in three days if no ransom is paid. | Sugule Ali tells The Associated Press that the bandits who have been holding the M... | 100 Somalis forced overboard believed drowned
| SAN'A, Yemen (AP) -- About 100 migrants from Somalia are missing and feared drowned in the treacherous waters off the coast of Yemen after smugglers forced them overboard, Yemeni officials and the U.N. refugee agency said on Friday. | So far, 30 bodies have been found... | Ukraine against using force to free ship
| MOGADISHU, Somalia - Ukraine said it is against using force to free its hijacked ship off Somalia's coast as NATO marshaled a seven-vessel force to protect ships in those perilous waters. | Some pirates appeared on Friday to be softening in the face of international p... | Somali Pirates Free 20 Hostages From Hijacked Ship
| MANILA, Philippines - Somali pirates freed 20 Filipino seamen from a hijacked ship they held for more than 80 days, officials said Friday, as the government doubled the pay of sailors passing through pirate-infested international waters. | Pirates also released 29 Ira... | U.N. Says 100 Migrants Feared Drowned Off Yemen After Forced Overboard by Smugglers
| SAN'A, Yemen - About 100 people are missing and feared drowned off the shores of Yemen after their smugglers forced them overboard in the treacherous Gulf of Aden waters, Yemeni officials and the UN refugee agency said on Friday. | In Geneva, the U.N. refugee agency s... | Migrants missing, feared drowned in Gulf of Aden
SAN'A, Yemen - About 100 migrants from Somalia are missing and feared drowned in the treacherous waters off the coast of Yemen after smugglers forced them overboard, Yemeni officials and the UN refugee agency said on Friday. | So far, 30 bodies have been found washed up... | Ukraine against using force to free ship
| MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Ukraine said it is against using force to free its hijacked ship off Somalia's coast as NATO marshaled a seven-vessel force to protect ships in those perilous waters. | Some pirates appeared on Friday to be softening in the face of internatio... | Ukraine against using force to free hijacked ship off Somali coast; NATO
| MOGADISHU, Somalia - Ukraine said it is against using force to free its hijacked ship off Somalia's coast as NATO marshaled a seven-vessel force to protect ships in those perilous waters. | Some pirates appeared on Friday to be softening in the face of international p... | |
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