Piracy News

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A German shipping company says four crew members from one of its vessels have been released a month after being kidnapped by pirates off Equatorial Guinea's coast.

Four vessels from the Indian Navy's Eastern Fleet, on operational deployment to the South China Sea and the Western Pacific, made a port call here today.

Two convicted Somali pirates, Mawlid Ahmed Abtidon, 25, right, and Abdi Fatah Ahmed Abdullah, 29, complained about a shortage of prison food and the absence of promised phone calls.

A suspect in a piracy case yesterday told a Mombasa court that he was not the man in photographs used as exhibits in his case Mohamud Abdi, told the court that the photographs were of different people since none of them was clad in his usual military-like uniform.

The reported delivery of supersonic Russian anti-ship missiles to Syria, which could also fall into the hands of Lebanon's Hezbollah , has heightened Israeli concerns about protecting its offshore natural gas fields.

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The 13th naval escort squad sent by the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy to Somali waters has returned home after successfully completing its mission.

North Korea-China: Gunmen wearing North Korean military uniforms released a Chinese fishing boat Tuesday, 21 May, after holding its crew for two weeks, beating up the captain and stealing the boat's fuel, the boat's owner said.

Even as the United States accuses China of military espionage and worries about Beijing's more strident posture in the Asia-Pacific region, the ties between the armed forces of the two nations have been getting closer.

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It was only two years ago when 32-year-old Jessica Buchanan was kidnapped while working for a humanitarian NGO in Somalia.

To mark the release of writer-director Tobias Lindholm's A Hijacking in cinemas, RTE TEN is giving you the chance to win the DVDs of award-winning movie The Hunt and the acclaimed political drama series Borgen - both of which were written by Lindholm.

Two FBI agents who died while training off the Virginia Beach coast fell to their deaths when a helicopter had trouble during a "maritime counterterrorism exercise," an agency spokeswoman said Monday night.

Hearing on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, Lindsay Carter took advantage of the advanced warning, gathered her belongings and fled.

Special to Times of Oman As representatives of governments from across the world gather in London for the international conference on Somalia, it is worth reminding ourselves that in dealing with civil conflicts and failed states, prevention is always better than cure.

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A Bossaso court convicted on Sunday, 78 Iranians who were caught in April illegally fishing in Puntland state waters, Garowe Online reports.

There are more than 1,000 convicted Somali pirates in prisons around the world. Some of them end up in a UN-funded jail on the tiny island nation of Seychelles.

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