11.   The Red Cross stopped escorting food ships to the Jaffna Peninsula last month after Tigers failed to renew their promise not to attack the vessels.

12.   The ship was escorted to Lavrion and confiscated, the ministry said.

13.   The Red Cross says that it would escort ships that unload food only at a rebel-held port and skip Kankesanthurai port.

14.   The Red Cross now says that it will escort ships that unload food only at a rebel-held port and skip the Kankesanthurai port.

15.   Two and a half hours later, Shanghai port authorities escorted the ship out of Chinese waters.

16.   Two Taiwanese patrol boats escorted the ship back to Kaohsiung on Wednesday.

17.   Ghanaian radio, citing port authorities in Takoradi, said the ship had been escorted out of Ghanaian territorial waters.

18.   He added that lifeboats were now escorting the ship to the nearby Humber estuary, but it was sailing under its own power.

19.   The ship had been escorted by Irish naval forces to the nearby port of Castletown Bere.

20.   The ships were later escorted to Batumi, and a criminal case was opened against the crews, ITAR-TASS reported.