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Taliban are regaining strength, a fact clear to everyone who keeps his eyes open to the developments taking place around him. Not long after it released the 21 South Korean hostages, the Taliban has declared that it is the beginning of its war on...
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Russian crime gangs on the Costa del Sol are injecting kidnap victims with what they claim is an experimental KGB virus to terrify them into paying ransoms.
In the...
made popular Jun 16 2009
Pirates are glorified criminals.
The life of a pirate is packed with danger. But the myth about pirates only celebrates the loots.
There is nothing romantic about...
made popular Apr 13 2009
The previous capture of a Saudi tanker carrying $100 million of crude raised awareness of the pirates operating off Somalia’s coast. The tanker was only released...
made popular Apr 9 2009
At last, epopee with Faina, a ship hired to bring Russian ammunition in Kenya from Odessa Port of the Ukraine, captured by Somali pirates in open sea, was finished as a...
made popular Feb 15 2009
Piracy in the Gulf of Aden has cost shippers between $18-30 million so far this year in ransoms and is threatening global business. Pirates have hijacked more than 30...
made popular Oct 3 2008
Pirates have released 14 Filipinos from among the 79 crewmen of two Malaysian tankers hijacked near Somalia in exchange for a ransom. The release came two days after...
made popular Oct 2 2008
Is shipping in the great horn of Africa increasingly falling at the mercy of the pirates?
This seems to be the case with last Thursday’s hijack of Mv Faina, a...
made popular Oct 1 2008
How ransom kidnappings, once a rarity in most of Afghanistan, have become a cash source second only to the narcotics trade for the country’s insurgents
made popular Sep 10 2008
AP, Idaho Falls
A handkerchief-wearing thief had a videotaped message for his victim: pay a $3,000 ransom, and you can get your video games back.There was just one problem. The burglar...
made popular Jan 5 2008
AP, Idaho Falls
A handkerchief-wearing thief had a videotaped message for his victim: pay a $3,000 ransom, and you can get your video games back. There was just one problem. The...
made popular Jan 4 2008
AP, Lancaster
A purse-snatcher demanded $185,000 in ransom money for returning his victim’s cell phone, but agreed to settle for $200. When the woman went to retrieve the...
made popular Oct 16 2007
With new brands, new designers flooding up fashion market, we often land in confusions or complaints. Either the brands leaves us indecisive or complaining about...
made popular Jun 25 2007
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