Plans to carry out the pumping operation had previously been delayed partly because of bad weather. Seventeen people died when the ship hit a reef and capsized, and another 15 are missing, presumed dead.
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A senior adviser to the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph Kabila, has been killed in a plane crash. The aide, Augustin Katumba Mwanke, died along with the pilot when the private jet crashed near the eastern town of Bukavu.
The authorities in Peru say they've captured the leader of the Shining Path rebel group. Officials said the rebel leader, known as Comrade Artemio, was found badly wounded after a clash with troops in a remote jungle region.
The interim authorities in Libya say Colonel Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam will be moved to a prison in Tripoli within the next two months in preparation for his trial. The head of the National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, said Saif al-Islam - the man once seen as his father's most likely
heir
- was still being questioned three months after he was captured. Here's Jonathan Head from Tripoli.
The new Libyan authorities are pushing ahead with their plans to try the only one of Muammar Gaddafi's children they've
caught alive
. They say they will now transfer Saif al-Islam from the town of Zintan, where he's been held for the past three months by the militia group that captured him, to a prison they are building in Tripoli. There he will face more questioning over his role in the violent suppression of anti-Gaddafi protests last year. Human rights groups have questioned whether he can get a fair trial here, saying the justice system is too