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Yorkshire, UK - In a final attempt to locate the wreck of the Bonhomme Richard, the US Navy is sending in its smallest nuclear-powered submarine. The 150ft NR1, which played a part in salvaging wreckage from the space shuttle Challenger in 1986 will arrive next week off the east coast of Yorkshire.

"It is sad that the American forces off the coast of Somalia are here for fun and are not combatting the pirates," Abdullahi Said Samatar, security affairs minister in Somalia's semiautonomous Puntland region told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Puntland. Earlier this week, Somali forces successfully stormed a ship that had been taken by pirates, who Samatar is quoted as saying "crossed the line" when they attacked a vessel under hire by Somali businessmen.