Piracy News

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In addition to providing entertainment value, pop culture can often be very instructional.

The pirates might come from mean circumstances, but Lindholm never apologizes for their crimes.

If you like Santa Claus and Donald Duck and you want to keep believing that pirates look and act like Johnny Depp, don't see "A Hijacking," because everything in Tobias Lindholm's riveting film looks so real that you might think it's a high resolution videotape of a pirate hijacking.

The European Union has granted the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development $50 million to launch the three-year regional Maritime Security Programme , the Djiboutian Information Agency reported Friday .

The movie is gorgeous, mesmerizing, poetic; the lyricism actually heightened by harsh jets of gore.

NORFOLK Guided-missile destroyer USS Bainbridge left Naval Station Norfolk Friday for a seven-month deployment in support of Maritime Security Operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th and 6th Fleet Area of Responsibilities.

Minutes after walking down the gangplank of Australian warship HMAS Toowoomba with his crewmates, Able Seaman Josh Nevermann worked his way through the cheering crowds lining the water's edge and went down on one knee.

A French-flagged tanker has gone missing in piracy-plagued waters off West Africa, the International Maritime Bureau said on Friday, warning other ships in the area to be on guard.

"A Hijacking" is every bit as straightforward as its title. This Danish drama depicts the seizure of a cargo ship by Somali pirates and the months-long negotiations for the release of ship and crew, and tells this story partly through the eyes of the crew that experiences it, and partly in the corporate offices where a CEO takes charge by playing ... (more)

He named a SPECIFIC passenger... But it just wasn't true! KITV4's Lara Yamada is back from court with why he did it - and what happens next.

Hollywood is planning to bring movies centring on the story of data-snooping whistleblower Edward Snowden and the equally controversial US drones programme to the big screen, according to the Hollywood Reporter .

Minister for Defense Stephen Smith today welcomed HMAS Toowoomba home from a six-month deployment to the Middle East Area of Operations .

The European Union Naval Force says Somali pirates who took control of a cargo vessel with 14 Indian sailors on board fled after counter piracy ships from the EU and NATO responded.

A Dublin-based company formations agent and a prolific creator of offshore companies, says he has set up "give or take" 2,000 companies for customers over his 30 years in the offshore business.

HELPING HAND: HMAS Newcastle receives injured sailors from MT Perla via the ship's medical team aboard the Seahawk.

The ship will head to Europe and Africa as part of the service's anti-piracy mission, a Navy news release says.

Four have-a-go-hero Brits sailing a converted warship to Africa on what they describe as an 'anti-piracy' mission have been arrested off Senegal.

Author Stephen Coonts has penned a suspense novel with a plot that could realistically happen -- the hijacking of a cruise ship for ransom by Somalian pirates.

Ali Mohamed Ali, a Somali national, helped negotiate the ransom of a merchant vessel and its crew after they were captured by marauders in the Gulf of Aden.