In Brief

In Brief

* KIDNAPPED – Tension was mounting in the Nigerian city of Warri as soldiers hunted for a heavily armed militia which has attacked oil facilities and kidnapped four foreign workers.

* TALKS – North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il reportedly headed home on a special train, ending a secretive week-long visit to China that apparently focused on nuclear weapons and economic reforms. * UNREST – Sri Lanka poured more troops into the restive northeastern port district of Trincomalee, fearing more rebel attacks, as Scandinavian monitors pulled out of the volatile area, officials said.* JUSTICE – Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who shot pope John Paul II in 1981, faced a possible return to jail after Turkey’s justice minister sought to overturn a court decision freeing him after a quarter-century.* PLOT – Police in Britain have foiled a plot to kidnap Prime Minister Tony Blair’s five-year-old son Leo, The Sun newspaper said in a front-page article yesterday.* PLUTO – NASA postponed the launch of the world’s first probe to the icy, distant planet of Pluto after excessively strong winds put the liftoff at risk.- Nampa-AFP* UNREST – Sri Lanka poured more troops into the restive northeastern port district of Trincomalee, fearing more rebel attacks, as Scandinavian monitors pulled out of the volatile area, officials said.* JUSTICE – Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who shot pope John Paul II in 1981, faced a possible return to jail after Turkey’s justice minister sought to overturn a court decision freeing him after a quarter-century.* PLOT – Police in Britain have foiled a plot to kidnap Prime Minister Tony Blair’s five-year-old son Leo, The Sun newspaper said in a front-page article yesterday.* PLUTO – NASA postponed the launch of the world’s first probe to the icy, distant planet of Pluto after excessively strong winds put the liftoff at risk.- Nampa-AFP

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