AUSSIE WRECK: The wreck of an Australian navy cruiser was found off the nation’s western coast, the prime minister announced Monday. The HMAS Sydney was lost with all 645 hands in a 1941 battle with a German ship.
BBC BUST: Irish police have arrested four British Broadcasting Corp. journalists and several Irish Republican Army dissidents after the BBC crew filmed an IRA statement designed to coincide with Easter. The BBC said its reporters were working on assignment.
ALBANIA SEARCH: Rescue teams worked late Sunday to try to locate nine people still missing a day after explosions flattened an Albanian ammunition dump and hundreds of houses, killing at least nine and injuring nearly 300.
BRAZIL DRUGS: The army said Sunday it has discovered the first known coca plantations in Brazil’s Amazon, along with a fully equipped laboratory to manufacture cocaine.
ISRAEL SUIT: Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu filed a libel suit Sunday against a broadcaster that said he spent lavishly on London lodging and theater while Israel was at war in 2006.
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