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WORLD / NEWS Fri May 9, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

SF Gate -- A U.N. official says the World Food Program is suspending cyclone aid to Myanmar because its government seized supplies flown into the country. He says the WFP has no choice but to suspend the shipments until the matter is resolved. WFP spokesman Pa.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon May 28, 2007 @ 9:08am neoform

FOX News -- Nicaraguan police seized 6,000 tubes of a Chinese-made toothpaste suspected of containing a chemical that killed at least 51 people in nearby Panama last year, the health minister said Sunday. All U.S. imports of Chinese toothpaste were halted last wee.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Feb 16, 2007 @ 7:41pm neoform

BBC News -- An Italian judge has ordered 26 US citizens - most of them CIA agents - to stand trial over the kidnap of an Egyptian cleric in Milan in 2003. Osama Mustafa Hassan was allegedly seized by the CIA and flown to Egypt, where he says he was tortured. Se.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu May 17, 2007 @ 11:12pm neoform

CNN -- About 4,000 artifacts seized by border police in Denmark have been returned to the National Museum of Afghanistan, the Danish prime minister said Thursday during a visit to the Afghan capital, Kabul. The Afghan archaeological artifacts -- including coi.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri May 11, 2007 @ 8:02am neoform

CNN -- Forty suspects were arrested and thousands of videos, CDs and DVDs seized in a police raid that was part of a yearlong crackdown on child pornography, Austrian authorities said Friday. Officials detailing what they said involved months of undercover in.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Mar 30, 2007 @ 12:16am neoform

Yahoo News -- Malaysian marine police have seized a trawler carrying about 220 rare sea turtles and arrested 17 Chinese men for poaching, their second such seizure this week, a police chief said Thursday. In the two seizures, both involving chases through Malaysian.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Mar 20, 2007 @ 12:42am neoform

CNN -- Panamanian police seized a boat off the nation's Pacific coast carrying 19.4 metric tons of cocaine in one of the biggest maritime cocaine busts anywhere on record, officials said Monday. National police working with agents from the U.S. Drug Enforceme.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Feb 16, 2007 @ 10:28am mrmdc

CBS News -- Customs agents have seized fossilized dinosaur eggs that apparently were smuggled out of China and auctioned for $420,000. The fossils were seized late last week from the Bonhams and Butterfields auction house in Los Angeles... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Feb 7, 2007 @ 12:53am neoform

News.com.au -- THE Australian Federal Police says a rocket launcher seized as part of an investigation into a Sydney man with alleged links to a terrorist cell was "active" and could have been fired... Read More