Russia seizes 4 Japanese fishing boats
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Japan said Thursday that Russia seized four Japanese fishing boats in disputed waters between the two countries, calling the detention unacceptable and demanding an explanation from Moscow.
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Four people believed to have fled North  Korea arrived at a port in northern Japan in a small boat on  Saturday and later told police they want to go to South Korea,  Kyodo news agency reported.
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Japan accuses Russia of violating its airspace over the Pacific Izu islands and demands an explanation.
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In a move that Moscow has criticized, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has sailed close to Russian-held islands that Japan claims as its own.
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Japan&#39;s navy went on alert Wednesday when an unidentified submarine made a brief incursion into the country&#39;s southern waters near Okinawa and Tokyo was trying to determine where the vessel came from.
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On September 2, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (right) inspects four northern islands that are under territorial dispute with Russia.
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The Russian military said Tuesday that its bombers' flyover of a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Pacific was part of a routine patrol conducted in accordance with international rules.
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Russia returned to Japan on Wednesday   two sailors whose detention off its far eastern coast had   strained relations between the two countries.
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Japan&#39;s navy went on alert yesterday when an unidentified submarine made a brief incursion into the country&#39;s southern waters near Okinawa, and Tokyo was trying to determine where the vessel came from.
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Bulgarian coastal guards on Wednesday impounded a couple of Turkish fishing boats, which intruded in the country's territorial waters, the Interior Ministry said.
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Japan's Coast Guard Sunday dispatched patrol ships and aircraft after spotting a boat carrying Chinese activists to a group of disputed islands claimed by Japan, China and Taiwan.
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Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, which gives its the capability to observe any location around the globe.
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Russia deployed extra troops to guard dozens of nuclear facilities across the country on Wednesday after militants seized a school in the south and a suicide bomb attack in Moscow, the nuclear authority said.
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The Sierra Leone navy seizes six South Korean trawlers after catching them fishing in their waters.
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Japan took up with China the issue of a suspicious submarine that intruded into its waters amid alarm in Tokyo that the vessel was a show of strength from its neighbour and growing competitor.
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Sri Lanka's navy said it destroyed two Tamil Tiger rebel boats Friday as the craft were hauling hundreds of thousands of steel balls often used in bombs. Four rebel fighters were believed killed.
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Japan protested to Moscow after a Russian military plane intruded into Japanese air space over the Izu Islands south of Tokyo on Saturday, a Japanese foreign ministry official said.