The Central Bank of Libya is holding $184 million of gold and silver coins bearing the face of the late Col. Qaddafi in a 48-year-old British-made vault which they can’t get open. A rival government has the code. Khaled, a safecracker, has been hired to help but...
The tiny (110 acre) outpost of Itu Aba in the Spratly archipelago of the South China Sea is claimed by Taiwan to be an island; the Philippines claim it’s a rock. Island status comes with a 200 mile exclusion zone but, if a rock, only 12 miles. Or is it just a...
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