Read most of the way down for this:

We were shown a series of extraordinary films and photos of the cartels’ latest piece of apparatus: semi-submersibles.

US Customs have come across at least four of these craft. With up to four crew, these vessels have equipment to evade radar and can travel at up to 20 knots.

Nothing that couldn’t have been reported several years ago.
Documents confirm U.S. hid detainees from Red Cross
CIA Played Larger Role In Advising Pentagon

Georgia slowly but steadily heats up:
S. Ossetia set for criminal case against Tbilisi over shelling
Georgia frees four Russian troops after arms-smuggling arrest

The governor sounds more optimistic than the CBC:
Taliban driven out of south Afghan district: governor
Canadian and Afghan soldiers take on Taliban near Kandahar
This doesn’t sound too promising, either:
Taliban capture US helicopter parts

And finally, here’s the closest thing I could find to piracy for you tonight:
Shell shuts down Nigerian oil field after attack

A leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta told The Associated Press that militants attacked the Bonga oil field more than 65 miles from land. But the fighters weren’t able to enter a computer control room, which they had hoped to destroy.

Oh, and I caught this just before I clicked “Publish”:
US N-weapons parts missing, Pentagon says
Which reminded me that I’d been seeing this story around lately:
US Air Force to review ‘significant errors’ in tanker deal
Bad sign when a bureaucracy starts making $35 billion dollar mistakes. And all of this talk about the Air Force reminded me of this utterly pointless story:
Biggles battles Yanks for right to sport tash