A powerful earthquake rocked parts of Sulawesi in eastern Indonesia today, causing panic among residents, officials said. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The earthquake registered a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 and was centered beneath the Flores Sea, about 40 miles west of the town of Bau Bau in southeast Sulawesi, said an official of the local meteorological agency. The quake struck at 8:04 a.m. He said the depth of the quake was about 23 miles under the sea.
Ireland: Police scoop up IRA cash
Police have blown open an Irish Republican Army money-laundering operation but cannot confirm whether cash worth nearly $5 million seized in raids came from a Belfast bank robbery, the government said Friday. Detectives brought charges against one suspected IRA member and interrogated three other people – including a man allegedly caught burning a pile of currency in his backyard. Another man walked into a Cork police station and handed over a bag containing $330,000 in British notes. The man said he’d been given the money to hide by an arrested suspect.
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