21.   HONG KONG -- Two suspected smugglers seized at gunpoint from a boat in Hong Kong waters by a Chinese coastal patrol are freed Saturday.

22.   Immigration officials arrested Quassey and two other suspected smugglers in November.

23.   In one typical exchange, one suspected smuggler was killed and another arrested on Friday during a gun battle with Russian troops.

24.   In that second case, two suspected smugglers jumped overboard and were picked up by the Coast Guard.

25.   In the past, Iran and the UAE have refused to stop suspected smugglers in their waters.

26.   Lord Bach, minister for defense procurement, said the four suspected smugglers managed to escape after beaching their speedboat with the drugs aboard Monday evening.

27.   Media reports said the first meeting Tuesday went poorly after Britain protested about a Chinese vessel that intruded into Hong Kong waters last month to seize suspected smugglers.

28.   Scores of suspected smugglers are killed trying to enter Tajikistan every year.

29.   Seven Mexican federal agents have been taken into custody pending a probe into the fatal shooting of a suspected smuggler of migrants across the U.S. border.

30.   Thailand agreed to allow Laotian anti-narcotics officers to participate in Thai seminars, and the two countries said they would share information on the activities of suspected smugglers.