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CNN) — Paul and Rachel Chandler, the British couple held hostage by more than a year by pirates, learned after being freed this weekend that Paul Chandler’s...
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It’s a tale straight from a Lifetime TV movie — a petite, young blonde sets out for a day of adventure with her loving hubby, only to return home alone with...
made popular Oct 19 2010
The EU’s anti-piracy task force says Somali pirates have hijacked a chemical tanker carrying lubricating oil in the Red Sea.
The force says pirates attacked the...
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A U.S. warship captured six suspected pirates Saturday after a battle off the Horn of Africa – the Navy’s third direct encounter with seafaring bandits in less...
made popular Apr 12 2010
Maj. Simon Laurencine watched as two yellow dots lit up the radar screen in the bridge of Topaz, his Seychelles Coast Guard patrol boat 230 miles off the Indian Ocean...
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The French navy has captured 35 piracy suspects off Somalia’s coast – hailing it as the most successful mission since EU operations began in 2008.
French officials...
made popular Mar 9 2010
Property prices in Nairobi are soaring, and Somali pirates are getting the blame.
The hike in real estate prices in the Kenyan capital has prompted a public outcry and...
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Somali pirates have hijacked a UK-flagged chemical tanker in the Gulf of Aden, officials say.
The St James Park was captured on Monday while on its way to Thailand...
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n Somalia’s main pirate lair of Haradheere, the sea gangs have set up a cooperative to fund their hijackings offshore, a sort of stock exchange meets criminal...
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Somali pirates have captured a tanker carrying oil to the US, officials say.
The Greek-owned Maran Centaurus was about 1,300km (800 miles) off Somalia when it was...
made popular Nov 30 2009
Somali pirates on Wednesday seized a cargo ship in the Indian Ocean with 22 crew members on board, the European Union Naval Force said.
Naval spokesman Cmdr. John...
made popular Nov 11 2009
Since first info appeared on 28 July locally in Sweden, a story of a hijacked “Arctic Sea”, Malta-registered, Russian-crew-completed, Finish-timber carrying ship...
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European Commission maritime officials told The Daily Telegraph that following its first attack in Swedish waters, a second set of radio messages was received from the...
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“In our culture we were nomads and we believed it was our right to take sheep, to take cattle. That is how we see the ships. They are our sheep and we will take...
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Muslim leaders and police in Kenya warned yesterday that the country was becoming a “dumping ground” for Somali pirates after the United States handed over 17...
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A warning this week from the British aid group Oxfam that the humanitarian crisis in Somalia is the worst in Africa is not new. Last year, the U.N. called the situation...
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US navy snipers have shot dead three pirates holding a US captain in a boat off Somalia, in a dramatic rescue authorised by President Barack Obama.
They opened fire...
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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...
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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...
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Things are turning ugly as the Somali pirates fortify themselves against foreign naval ships that are moving in to patrol Africa’s longest coastline. Militia men...
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Indian Navy has shown the world once again after Operation Pawan in Sri Lanka and Operation Cactus in Maldives that it is one of the best in the world.
Only a few days...
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Somali pirates are demanding an $8m ransom for the release of a Ukrainian ship they are holding off the coast off their country’s northern coast.The pirates appear to...
made popular Oct 10 2008
Pirates took hostage at least 17 fishermen aboard four fishing boats off Tawi-Tawi province in Mindanao, southern Philippines. The report said the pirates, armed with...
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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...
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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...
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The Philippine government will formally declare the pirate-prone Gulf of Aden as risk zone after several hijacking incidents victimized almost 100 seafarers from the...
made popular Sep 30 2008
Somali pirates plying the Gulf of Aden in speedboats equipped with grenade launchers and scaling ladders have launched what the maritime industry calls the biggest...
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Ever since Obama started beating Hilary in the primaries, fear has been raised about him. Now that he is going head to head with John McCain, the fears have only...
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So here it is… the one week results from our previous poll on software piracy. In that short time, we’ve had nearly 500 photographers cast their votes and the...
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Captain of the Maersk Alabama, Richard Phillips, left, is escorted by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., right, for a hearing on piracy off of the coast of Somalia on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 30,...
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