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SAN FRANCISCO Ronnie Stanley Hat , Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- A team of civilian researchers has found wreckage from the USS Indianapolis, the naval flagship of the U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet lost in the final days of the World War II, or WWII, 5,500 meters below the surface on the floor of Philippine Sea in the North Pacific Ocean.
The finding was posted by Microsoft Corporation co-founder and philanthropist Paul G. Allen on Saturday and confirmed by the U.S. Navy.
""We've located wreckage of USS Indianapolis in Philippine Sea at 5500m below the sea,"" Allen declared in a posting on his website, wwwpaulallen.
The discovery was made Friday by the 16-person expedition team of Allen's Research Vessel (RV) Petrel.
The Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the early morning hours of July 30, 1945, when it had just completed a secret mission of delivering components of one of the two nuclear weapons that were dropped on Japan.
The 9,800-ton Portland Class heavy cruiser, commissioned in November 1932, sank in 12 minutes, making it impossible to deploy much of its life-saving equipment. Of the 1,196 sailors and Marines onboard, only 316 survived.
During WWII, the Indianapolis served with honor from Pearl Harbor, earning 10 battle stars.
""To be able to honor the brave men of the USS Indianapolis and their families through the discovery of a ship that played such a significant role during World War II is truly humbling,"" Allen said in his web posting.
While the expedition team on the RV Petrel will continue the process of surveying the full site, the U.S. Navy said the work is compliant with U.S. law, ""respecting the sunken ship as a war grave and not disturbing the site.""
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MELBOURNE， May 17 (Xinhua) -- Australian police carried out raids on Tuesday in Melbourne linked to a group of would-be terrorists who allegedly planned to flee Australia via a seven-meter boat to join Islamic State (IS).
On Tuesday morning， Victoria Police and Australia Federal Police (AFP) followed-up on several search warrants at properties in north and northwest Melbourne.
The raids are part of the Victorian Counter Terrorism Team's Operation Middleham， which led to the arrests of five men in the Queensland city of Cairns last week.
""The Victorian Joint Counter Terrorism Team are currently executing a number of warrants in the northern and northwestern suburbs of Melbourne as a part of Operation Middleham，"" a police spokeswoman said in a statement on Tuesday.
""This operational activity is not linked to any increased threat or danger to the community.
""As the matter is before the court， we are unable to comment further.""
The dwellings were located in the Melbourne suburbs of West Footscray， Broadmeadows and Epping.
Investigators finished searching the Broadmeadows property just after 1 p.m. on Tuesday.
The group of five， who were all on counterterrorism watch lists and had their passports revoked， were charged on Saturday with making preparations for incursions into foreign countries to engage in hostile activities.
Victoria Police will allege the men， all from Melbourne and aged between 21 and 31， planned to sail the seven-meter boat from Cape York on the far north tip of Queensland to Indonesia， and then fly to Syria to fight for IS.
On Monday， the group appeared in Cairns Magistrates Court， with the AFP successfully applying for the extradition back to Victoria.
The group will face Melbourne Magistrates Court on Thursday.
Family， friends and supporters of the Melbourne men， named in court documents as Robert Cerantonio， Shayden Thorne， Kadir Kaya， Antonio Granata and Paul Dacre， have claimed the group were in Queensland for a fishing trip.
If found guilty they each face life in prison.
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Japan on Wednesday agreed to finance a $2.6 billion monorail Panama intends to have built by 2022 as an extension of its young metro system, the Panamanian government said.
""This financing Japan is giving us today is recognition of the solidity and credibility of Panama,"" a statement quoted President Juan Carlos Varela saying during a visit to Tokyo.
Varela's government is fighting to save Panama's image as a budding global business hub after the so-called Panama Papers revelations that exposed how politicians, the wealthy and some criminals used its offshore expertise.
The Japanese credit for the monorail is a 20-year deal extended through the government-backed Japan Bank for International Cooperation.
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