1.   A freighter is leaving Tuesday to bring food and medicine to Andrew Halsey, who is trying to become the first epileptic to row alone across the Pacific.

2.   An official at Taichung port, central Taiwan, confirmed the freighter had left, but refused to say where it was heading.

3.   The freighter left Pusan in South Korea on Tuesday to pick up used cars in Japan and was on its way to Vladivostok, the officials said.

4.   The freighter left the site on its own power and later reached the eastern German port of Rostock.

5.   The Nigerian freighter left the port of Monrovia on Sunday and was headed to Accra, Ghana.

6.   Freighter left Thursday evening.

7.   At least two more freighters had left the port and many others were diverted to Burma, Singapore and Sri Lanka, officials said.

8.   At least two other freighters had left the port and many others were diverted to Burma, Singapore, Sri Lanka, they said.

9.   Two rice-laden freighters left South Korean ports Tuesday, resuming an emergency food lifeline to relieve acute shortages in communist North Korea.

10.   The freighter left the Cuban port of Mariel before dawn Saturday.