You are here: HomeWorld NewsAsia   Since Malaysia Airlines
Flight MH370 left Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, shortly after midnight
on March 8, and lost all contact with air traffic control an
hour later while flying over the Gulf of Thailand, the world has
waited anxiously for any information that might explain how and
why the huge aircraft vanished.   The Israeli Navy intercepted
and boarded a cargo ship in international waters in the Red Sea
on March 5, seizing a shipment that included Syrian-made M-302
rockets that the ship picked up in Iran. The ship was destined
for Sudan, from which the rockets would presumably be moved by
land across Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula to Gaza.   Iran has signed a
deal to sell $195 million dollars’ worth of arms and ammunition
to Iraq, according to documents seen by Reuters news agency,
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