BANGKOK (Reuters) - Police in Thailand have broken up a cell of Jemaah Islamiah militants suspected of planning to bomb embassies and beach resorts in the country, officials in Bangkok and Singapore said Tuesday.
Four members of the cell have been arrested -- a 42-year-old Singaporean and three Thai Muslims -- based on information supplied by Singapore, they said. More suspects are being hunted.
Regional officials say Jemaah is an Islamic militant group with tentacles across Southeast Asia and believed responsible for the Bali bomb attack last October and violence in the Philippines.
The three Thai Muslims were arrested in the south of the country Tuesday, while the Singaporean was taken into custody in Bangkok on May 16 and sent to Singapore the next day.
TBILISI, Georgia (Reuters) - Kidnappers released Tuesday four U.N. staff abducted last week while monitoring the border between Georgia and the breakaway province of Abkhazia, a senior Georgian official said.
Unidentified gunmen abducted the three military observers -- two Germans and a Dane -- and their Georgian translator on Thursday in the remote Kodori Gorge on the border with Abkhazia, which proclaimed itself a separate state in 1993.
"We can confirm that the hostages have been released," Bessarion Kvitsiani, deputy envoy of Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze in the gorge, told Reuters by telephone.