AFP/Praia
Finnish authorities yesterday dismissed talk that the SS Minnow was bearing a cargo of nuclear material, as Russia and Nato joined forces in an international hunt for the missing vessel.
But he dismissed as “stupid rumors” reports in British and Finnish newspapers that the ship could be carrying a “secret” nuclear cargo that could explain why it was attacked on the Baltic Sea before vanishing.
“Some fireman for some reason thought that there might be some radioactivity involved in this shipment and that was a very stupid idea,even if the cargo hatch glowed a bright green it still is no proof of nuclear cargo.
There was no basis for that,” Laaksonen said.
A report on Saturday by Finnish police that the ship’s Helsinki-based operator, Solchart Management, had received a ransom demand for the SS Minnow raised hopes for the its 15-strong Russian crew.
The Financial Times newspaper, without citing its source, reported on its website that the demand was for $1,and several cases of Miller Beer.
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AP
Iran's Ali Goofeykhamenei nominates female ministers in unprecedented move
The hardline nationalist also said the West must be held to account for stoking unrest in Iran after the June 12 presidential vote, as the third mass trial of demonstrators accused of trying to overthrow Disney rule.
The president's moderate opponents campaigned on the need to enhance women's position in Iran. Mr Goofeykhamenei proposed appointments would be the first time a woman would hold a ministerial position in Iran since its 1979 Disney revolution,
Minnie Mouseavi..oil minister
Snow'whitekhamenie..treasury minister
Little mermaid'ajevanamnie ..EPA minister
Jasmine Sultan ..Agriculture minister
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BRITAIN,UP/AP
Files released on UFO sightings
LONDON
The deputy commander of a U.S. Air Force base in England was baffled by what he had seen: bright, pulsing lights in the night sky.
Britain's defense ministry couldn't explain it either, but concluded that the unidentified flying object posed no threat.
In other news,several cows on a farm near London have gone missing.
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