11.   The other fishermen are from Taiwan, Malaysia and Vietnam.

12.   The other fishermen did not have passports but their nationalities were being checked.

13.   The six fishermen had been ice-fishing with two others, who managed to scramble ashore and report the incident, ITAR-Tass said.

14.   The report did not say what had happened to the other fishermen.

15.   The seven fishermen went missing Friday while fishing on Lake Baikal, officials said.

16.   The two fishermen are scheduled to arrive at Hakodate airport in Hokkaido later in the day.

17.   Villagers were searching for the bodies of the four fishermen, ITAR-Tass said.

18.   In Tokyo, the Kyodo News Agency said the two fishermen were killed aboard a Chinese vessel.

19.   An unspecified number of Miskito men, travelling in a speed boat, boarded the boat the four fishermen were in and took them hostage, officials said.

20.   Before picking up the three fishermen, the Israeli navy ship fired at eight boats off Rashidiye in southern Lebanon.