Police nab food-mooching hitchhike-monkey
A French peace activist is facing deportation from Australia
for hitchhiking and mooching from townspeople while pretending to be
running around the world.
Sylvain Quenel has been handed over to the Immigration Department after
being detained at Eucla on the Western Australia-South Australia border.
Police allege the man had been hitchhiking to towns, then seeking food
and other goods while pretending to have made his journey entirely on
foot.
Residents along the route reported that the supposed runner had covered
up to 70 kilometres in three hours.
Another international bad boy in the news...The United Nations Security
Council will discuss North Korea's nuclear crisis next week. At the same
time, the communist country has declared it will improve its firepower to
avoid the same fate as Iraq.
The North Korean regime has been carefully watching developments in Iraq
and believes it will be attacked next.
According to an official government newspaper, "the US increasing
pressure upon North Korea over its nuclear issue is very similar to what
happened in Iraq."
"North Korea will bolster its self-defensive military power and
smash any provocation at a single blow," it continued.
The United Nations Security Council has finally agreed to discuss the
crisis, with talks to be held in the middle of next week.
The council has the ability to impose sanctions on North Korea, a move
Pyongyang says will amount to a declaration of war.
