In Ireland, the government has suspended all operations at B&F Meats in Co Tipperary, saying it had despatched horsemeat to a customer in the Czech Republic via a UK-based trader, not named by authorities, using a label in Czech which, when translated, referred to beef.
China, the North's only powerful ally, said it had despatched officials on Tuesday to hold talks with ambassadors from North Korea, South Korea and the US.
"It was always going to be a tough game... and on another day I think that we'd have had four or five more chances that we'd have despatched and made life a little bit easier.
The midday heat has despatched even the most sadistic of midges deep into the heather.
Australia has despatched four search planes and two ships to the area.
On investigation, a dead viper was discovered in the sandpit: she had despatched it with her spade.
Having despatched Lentulus with this commission, he marked where the slaughter was greatest, and there threw himself upon the swords of the enemy.
He has despatched him on several sensitive diplomatic missions including to Pakistan after the US raid that killed the al-Qaida leader, Osama bin Laden, badly damaged Washington's relations with Islamabad.
The British Foreign Office said it was urgently working with travel firms in Tunisia "to gather and confirm information on those affected by this attack", and had despatched British embassy staff to the site of the atrocity.
He clubs to death "a poor little ensign, so young, slender, and small, that a blow from my pigtail would have despatched him ... ", and bayonets a French officer before butchering a further four.
