A South Korean navy warship has rescued a North Korean freighter by driving away a pirate ship chasing it off Somalia.

American naval forces handed Somali authorities the bodies of three suspected pirates on Thursday, officials said, after U.S. snipers shot the trio earlier this month during a standoff over an American hostage.

Russian news agencies, citing the nation’s Defense Ministry, say a Russian warship has seized a vessel with 29 suspected pirates on board off the coast of Somalia.

A Somali official and a clan elder say gunmen have released two European aid workers after holding them for nine days in southwestern Somalia.

Armed fighters attacked two African Union peacekeeping bases in Somalia’s capital, and a witness said he saw the bodies of three civilians killed.

An official says insurgents have attacked two African Union peacekeepers’ bases in the Somali capital, and a witness says at least three people were killed.

An Italian cruise ship fended off a pirate attack off the coast of Somalia, with its security forces exchanging fire with the bandits, the commander said Saturday.

The commander of an Italian cruise ship says his crew successfully fended off an attack by pirates off Somalia, returning fire when the pirates attacked.

Mortars fired toward Somalia’s parliament missed the building but hit a police unit inside the compound as well as a residential neighborhood, killing at least seven people, according to witnesses and officials.

A U.S. Navy spokesman says a German-owned ship has been hijacked in the pirate-infested waters between Somalia and Yemen.