Mystery Buoy Washes Ashore (FLA 1/4/05)
COCOA BEACH, Fla. -- A 4,000-pound buoy has washed ashore in Cocoa Beach and no one seems to know exactly where it came from.
The giant green buoy in Cocoa Beach has U.S. Coast Guard officials stumped, so far.
"There's no identifying marks on it, so I don't know where it came from," said Jeff Galliher, petty officer with the U.S. Coast Guard at Port Canaveral. "It's just a buoy base with a tower coming out of it."
North Korea Reportedly Armed Islamic Guerrillas In Philippines
North Korea has reportedly played a major role in arming members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the largest guerrilla movement in the Philippines......
Portrait of a Family at War: Kim Jong Il Purges Relatives After Alleged Coup Bid North Korea's Kim Jong Il has purged some of his closest relatives, accusing them of trying to seize power, reports in Beijing and Seoul said....
Six U.S. Congressmen Head to North Korea (1/4/05)
Washington, DC, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., will lead a delegation of lawmakers to North Korea, to try and "kick start" talks on the communist nation's nuclear program.
Metal Doors Blown Into Street (HI - Exploding transformer)
A fiery explosion blew the doors off a transformer room in Kaka'ako yesterday, damaging five cars, but causing no serious injuries.
Russia Seizes Radioactive 'Devices' (12/29/04)
Yuzhno, Russia, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Russian authorities announced Wednesday they had seized 13 highly radioactive devices at a Sakhalin port, the Novosti news agency reported.
Customs officials found the unspecified devices Dec. 20 among freight containers received by a South Korean contractor, which is building a liquefied-gas factory near Korsakov.
Their radiation levels exceeded background radiation limits by 200 times, extending 12 feet around the container.
Truck Crash Spills Radioactive Material onto Route 50 (MD - 1/4/05)
By JEFF HORSEMAN, Staff Writer A pickup truck carrying low-level radioactive material crashed into a guardrail on eastbound Route 50 yesterday morning, causing its cargo to spill onto the roadway.
Pak Bars 12 Nuke Scientists from Travelling to Other Cities (1/6/05)
Press Trust of India Islamabad, January 6, 2005|18:45 IST Pakistan has barred over a dozen scientists and staff of its nuclear installation Khan Research Laboratories, who are under investigation for proliferating nuclear technology to other countries, from travelling outside Islamabad without permission.
Ex-Mossad Chief Warns of Nuclear Threat (1/2/05)
JERUSALEM, Israel, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Israel's former Mossad chief said Sunday that Israel should look beyond the nuclear threat of Iran to Syria, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
Former Mossad head and and former national security adviser Ephraim Halevy told the Jerusalem Post Pakistan's A.Q. Khan had been "purveying his goods extensively in the Middle East."
"Maybe we should be looking beyond the lamppost. Maybe the lamppost is Iran and we should be looking elsewhere," he said.
Halevy stressed that he had no firm information and he did not have any recent access to classified information, but it "could well be" that Syria, Saudi Arabia and Egypt might have a nuclear capability Israel was not aware of.
The New York Times reported last week that while, U.S. President George W. Bush has said the Khan network has been dismantled, U.S. intelligence officials and the International Atomic Energy Agency are still untangling information on Khan's travels to 18 countries in the years before his 2004 arrest.
