Drug "submarine" off Costa Rica was disguised boat
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica  - A vessel carrying 3.5 tonnes of cocaine that was seized by the U.S. Coast Guard off Costa Rica last week was not a submarine as first thought but a speedboat camouflaged to avoid detection, Costa Rican officials said on Wednesday.
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Bales of a record haul of cocaine spilled from a smuggling boat that capsized off the coast of Ireland are washing up on the shores of County Cork, officials said Tuesday.
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CLEVELAND - The packages were labeled as toys for good girls and boys and the business was called Santa's Helpers. But authorities say the packages were nothing more than a naughty ruse to cover a large-scale drug smuggling operation.
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A criminal investigation is launched after a counterfeit batch of prostate cancer drugs was discovered.
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HMS Vengeance returns to Faslane submarine base on the river Clyde. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images.Comment
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Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo  Tokyo, March 13 Kyodo - The Tokyo District Court sentenced a pleasure boat operator to 13 years in prison Tuesday for smuggling a large amount of amphetamine stimulant drugs from North Korea in 2002 in conspiracy with accomplices.
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They call themselves &quot;sub hunters,&quot;  men and women trained to detect enemy submarines gliding in the  depths of the world&#39;s oceans.
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In Costa Rica, there are fishermen, and then there are members of the Club Nacional de Pesca.
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A submarine left stranded in the Atlantic after a fire was seaworthy when it left the UK, the Canadian navy has said. The second-hand vessel was sold to Canada by the Royal Navy who earlier denied a refit was botched.
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica  - Costa Rican authorities seized almost two tonnes of cocaine on two speed boats on Monday, the latest capture in a series of large, U.S.-backed drug operations in the Central American country.
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A former Navy sailor is accused of supporting terrorism by disclosing secret information about the location of Navy ships and the best ways to attack them
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By Noah Bierman, The Miami Herald  Jun. 5--FORT PIERCE -- Florida taxpayers are about to acquire a 204-foot research ship, a pair of submarine pods that dive more than half a mile under water and a library of 47,000 sponges and microorganisms that may hold cures to cancer.
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana - A would-be thief got a taste of his own medicine in Guyana when he was caught and attached to a utility pole with the same duct tape he intended to use to bind a family and rob them, police said Tuesday.
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BALTIMORE, Sept. 29 -- An elaborate sting involving a business in Maryland that was secretly run by federal agents has led to the arrests of four foreign nationals on charges of conspiring to illegally ship surface-to-air missiles and other weapons to the Sri Lankan rebel group known as the Tamil...
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A claimed motive for the hijacking of a tugboat off Somalia may have at least a droplet of truth to it.
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Japan is seeking to identify the submarine that was detected yesterday near the southern island chain of Okinawa, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokuki Hosoda said.
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Oceana biologists and divers have documented accidental catches on board a Spanish fishing vessel.