South Korean kidnap victims freed in Mexico
South Korean officials say five South Koreans who were kidnapped while driving in a Mexican border city have been set free. Lee Jeong-gwan, a Foreign Ministry official in Seoul, South Korea, told reporters that the South Koreans were in custody of Mexican police and would be handed over to the South Korean Embassy there. The five South Koreans were kidnapped on July 14 while driving in a Mexican border city, and their captors had demanded $30,000.
Temecula group starts website as Muslim alternative to YouTube
MuslimChannels.tv aims to educate non-Muslims about Islam and provide an Internet site for Muslims to view videos without worrying about anti-Islamic tirades or sexually explicit content, said Tarek Ayoub, a volunteer for the site and for the site's nonprofit founder, Islam The Answer Corp.
Philippine troops disarm motorcycle bomb in south, accuse Muslim militants of plotting attack
The motorbike was recovered late Tuesday on a road to the main southern city of Davao but the driver escaped, said Maj. Armand Rico, regional military spokesman.
He said TNT explosives were hidden in the engine and connected to a cell phone that was to serve as a trigger. The bomb was later defused. Rico said soldiers were warned that Muslim militants with links to the regional terror network Jemaah Islamiyah were plotting to hit targets in Davao using a motorcycle bomb, and had set up checkpoints to intercept the vehicle.
Weapons and contraband tunnels found in Egypt's Sinai
Egyptian authorities discovered a weapons cache on Friday, a day after two tunnels used by smugglers were found in the Sinai desert close to the border with the Gaza Strip, a security officer said.
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