11.   A Russian freighter crashed into a Japanese freighter in waters off northern Japan Saturday morning but no one was injured, Maritime Safety Agency officials said.

12.   A Russian freighter moored at the port ran aground after drifting in rough seas for several hours, officials said.

13.   A short time later, two others in a third skiff were spotted by a Russian freighter.

14.   Danish authorities allowed the Russian freighter, the Valentin Pikulj, to continue on to its destination of St. Petersburg, Russia.

15.   Strong winds swept the Russian freighter resulting in a collision with the Eiyomaru, the officials said.

16.   The activists left the Russian freighter Wednesday, saying they had succeeded in their goal of pressing the Group of Eight industrial nations to move against illegal wood imports.

17.   The agency said a chartered Russian freighter carried the rice to the port of Nampo.

18.   The relief agency interviewed four Liberian men who jumped from the Russian freighter to a fishing boat on Friday.

19.   They were taken aboard a Russian freighter bound for Provideniya and were joined by the other two people when they were found soon after.

20.   Thousands of people who were trying to board a Russian freighter headed to Guinea on Monday learned the ship would not set sail and were waiting for other ships.