Piracy News

There is not much sailing in this book; but if the sailing had continued past page 2 there wouldn't have been a book at all.

The Captain and chief engineer of a cargo vessel were killed today by pirates operating off the coast of Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos, International Maritime Bureau said.

The Marine Corps is plotting how best to arm its prized MV-22 Ospreys for the missions and potential threats that await once combat ends in Afghanistan.

When the Hollywood retelling of the 2009 Maersk Alabama cargo ship hijacking and subsequent rescue hits the big screen next year, there may be a decidedly local flavor to the cast.

Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe won't sign the draft constitution into the new supreme law of the country as long as it "disqualifies him from contesting the next elections", a senior Zanu-PF official says.

A piracy monitoring official says pirates off Nigeria's coast have attacked a cargo ship and shot dead its captain and chief engineer.

A piracy monitoring official says pirates off Nigeria's coast have attacked a cargo ship and shot dead its captain and chief engineer.

A piracy monitoring official says pirates off Nigeria's coast have attacked a cargo ship and shot dead its captain and chief engineer.

U.S. Adm. William McRaven, commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command, speaks to special operations commanders during a commander's call on Hurlburt Field, Fla., on Jan.

One year, three months and 13 days. That is how long Bruno Pelizzari and Debbie Calitz have been held hostage by Somali pirates since the Durban couple were kidnapped in October 2010 while sailing to Richards Bay to see their first grandchild.

When I wrote an article suggesting that sea piracy proceeds were fuelling escalation of property prices in some Kenyan cities, I received a lot of flak.

Somalia has been a "collapsed state" since 1991. The instability that it harbors not only threatens the lives and livelihoods of its own people but endangers international security.

Somali pirates did not have a good year in 2011, seizing fewer vessels and hostages than in 2010, but the world still paid a heavy price for their activity because it costs far more to protect ships than to pay ransoms.

Throughout history, military leaders have found themselves in trouble when they try to fight a new war with the outdated strategies of the past.

We chat to Helen Baxendale 41, starring in ITV thriller Kidnap and Ransom, looking back at Friends and finding work over 40... OK let me just think! It's three-part ITV series about a group of British hostage negotiators working in dangerous parts of the world.

The Consumer Price Index declined from December 2011 to January 2012. Seasonal price reductions on clothing and footwear jointly contributed most to the fall, Statistics Norway reports.

Guards stand outside the prison that houses 70 pirate inmates, in the breakaway northern republic of Somaliland, March 2011.

Gary Oldman Talks THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, His Paralyzing Fear Of TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, CALL OF DUTY, and a Lot More The Syfy original movie Mysterious Island is adapted from Jules Verne's 1874 novel.

As noted in an earlier post , the weather in the upper Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden is beginning to shift from monsoon back to that more favorable to the operations of pirates in the small open attack boats.

As part of India's larger geopolitics and global security strategy, A.K. Antony will pay a two-day visit from Monday to Saudi Arabia, the first ever Indian defence minister to visit the kingdom.