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Conservation groups Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd have sent ships--some with battering rams--to intercept and possibly disable a Japanese whaling fleet in Antarctica early next month...
Frigates, patrol boats and intelligence and law enforcement officers from 23 nations are massing in Bahrain over the weekend, poised to stalk and intercept a British-flagged ship as it steams across the Persian Gulf with a cargo purported to be parts for a nuclear weapons program. If all goes as planned the vessel will be intercepted Monday before it reaches a destination that a senior U.S. official would identify only as a "country of proliferation concern." But he added, "I understand the exercise has gotten the attention of the Iranian government...
...against the looming backdrop of a possible second nuclear test by North Korea. A foretaste of those difficulties may have come during her talks with South Korean leaders in Seoul, who appear to have maintained their refusal to heed Washington's calls to join the U.S.-led effort to intercept and search North Korean vessels suspected of carrying prohibited cargoes, and to cut South Korea's economic ties to tourism and industrial projects in North Korea that earn valuable foreign exchange for the regime. Rice is visiting Japan, South Korea, China and Russia in the hope of isolating North Korea...
...correspondent at Britain's largest Sunday tabloid, the News of the World (NOTW), for allegedly obtaining private information by hacking into mobile-phone voice-mail messages of top aides of Prince Charles. The Scoop: Why the arrest? According to Scotland Yard, Goodman's nine alleged offenses include conspiracy to "intercept communications"; two other men were also arrested. Hacking into mobile-phone answering services, a practice generally referred to as "phone-screwing," has become a well-known technique used by British tabloids. Staffers at Clarence House - the official residence of Prince Charles, wife Camilla and his sons William and Harry - were...
...could take the CIA to the end zone after he replaces the widely criticized Porter Goss, but what the Senators were really curious about was Hayden's tenure as head of the National Security Agency, when he was involved in the Bush Administration's programs that allowed warrantless intercepts of some domestic phone calls and a recently disclosed program that reportedly compiled the phone records of millions of Americans. And on those questions, the thin, balding Hayden, dressed in his Air Force uniform, appeared to follow the playbook of many administration officials testifying in front of Congress: say nothing...