Japanese Fishing Boat Detained in Kamchatka Region
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PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKI. June 3 (Interfax) - The Japanese fishing boat Hoshin Maru 88 has been detained in the area of the Komandorskiye islands off the coast of Kamchatka for breaking fishing rules.
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PASIR PUTIH: Patriotism proved to be the undoing of a Thai boat crew caught fishing illegally in Malaysian waters two days ago.  The crew had gone to the trouble of painting a local registration number on the boat and even flew the Jalur Gemilang.
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Rescue services brought hundreds of fishermen to safety Saturday after they were stranded on ice floes that had broken away from the coast in Russia's Far East, emergency officials said.
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Police detained opposition activists Tuesday in a provincial city at a protest that Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov said was thwarted by Russian authorities intent on silencing dissent
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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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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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Eleven fishing boat crew who had been stranded since October in a remote part of Russia's Far East have been rescued after sheltering nearly three months at an abandoned military base, according to television and Russian news agency reports.
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For a rare visitor to  the volcanic Kamchatka peninsula in Russia&#39;s Far East, no other  custom reveals more about the local economy, lifestyle and  environment than salmon poaching.
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Japanese police arrested an American sailor Thursday on suspicion of attempted murder after two women were stabbed near a naval base south of Tokyo, officials said.
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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.
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Australia said Wednesday that Japan has agreed to release two activists detained after going aboard a Japanese whaling ship near Antarctica, as whale hunters and defenders traded accusations of piracy.
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Security forces in the ex-Soviet state  of Kyrgyzstan have detained a man who tried to sell nuclear  bomb-grade plutonium on the black market, a senior security  official said on Wednesday.
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Wearing a white windbreaker to protect him from the Siberian wind, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi stood on the bridge of a Japanese Coast Guard patrol boat on Thursday
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, right, on board a patrol boat off the Hokkaido coast. Picture:Reuters. Japan&#39;s Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has defied Russian objections to sail
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Authorities have detained two residents of the southern province of Ingushetia on suspicion of being linked to terrorists who held more than 1,000 people hostage in a school in September, officials said Thursday.
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Japan lodged a formal protest with the Chinese government on Friday after determining that an unidentified nuclear submarine that entered its territorial waters this week belonged to China.
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Kansai Electric Power&#39;s nuclear power plant in Fukui, Japan, was searched by police Saturday during an investigation into an Aug. 9 mishap.