Arms cache seized

The US Navy announced yesterday it seized an arms shipment hidden aboard a vessel in the Arabian Sea, the latest interdiction by sailors amid the long-running war in Yemen. The guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey discovered the weapons aboard what the Navy described as a stateless dhow, a traditional Mideast sailing ship. The weapons seized included Chinese-made, Kalashnikov-style assault rifles, sniper rifles, heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers. The Navy did not identify where it believed the shipment originated.