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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today announced that his government would release the detained 15 British sailors and marines as a gift to the British people.

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A US navy frigate on manoeuvres in the Persian Gulf has plucked eight Iraqi fishermen to safety as their boat sank beneath them.

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Australia has assumed command from the US of an international naval fleet enforcing sanctions on Iraq in the northern Gulf.

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