Athletes from war-torn Sierra Leone who went missing from the Commonwealth Games village phoned team officials and said they didn’t want to return, and the prime minister warned competitors on Friday that they could be treated as illegal immigrants if they tried to stay in Australia.
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/ 14 November 2005
Foreign and trade ministers from the 21 members economies of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum began arriving in South Korea on Monday for two days of talks on trade, security, bird flu and other issues that will set the final agenda for their leaders’ annual summit later this week.
Senior South African diplomat Nicky Scholtz was bound with wire, beaten and repeatedly tortured during a week of captivity after being seized by kidnappers from one of the Malaysian capital’s busiest streets, officials said on Tuesday. Scholtz’s captors, who thought he was a tourist, extorted thousands of dollars and threatened to kill him.