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Collection of pirates news, found 43 news.

Aceh police nab four suspected Malacca Strait pirates

Police in Aceh have arrested four men suspected of having committed piracy against ships passing through the Malacca ...

More aggressive action on pirates, EU

European Union states on Friday called for "more robust" action from the international fleet in the Indian Ocean to ...

Pirates say holding British hostage in central Somalia

A British woman, who was kidnapped in Kenya after her husband was killed, is in the hands of Somali pirates in the ...

Somali pirates free Kuwaiti oil tanker

Somali pirates say they freed a UAE-flagged, Kuwaiti-owned oil tanker after a $12-million ransom was paid.The 105,846 ...

RI proposes joint action in dealing with pirates

Indonesia will call on the member countries of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to jointly deal with ...

"X-men: First Class" rockets to top of north America box office

"X-Men: First Class," another superhero film which hit the screen this summer, opened to a 56 million dollar weekend ...

Police to station more patrol boats in Riau Islands

The Indonesian police headquarters plans to station more patrol boats in Riau Islands, Riau, North Sumatra and Aceh ...

Ships hijacked at Muara Jungkat, Pontianak

A tugboat Mitra Jaya V and a barge Makmur Abadi V had been hijacked 15-20 miles west of the Muara Jungkat buoy in ...

RI navy has two options to protect shipping from pirates

The Indonesian Navy (TNI AL) proposes two options to protect national flagged commercial ships in the open seas from ...

Lee praises navy commandos for daring rescue operation against Somali pirates

President Lee Myung-bak praised a contingent of Navy commandos Monday for their daring raid early this year to free a ...

Hijacked Taiwan skipper killed in crossfire with US

The captain of a hijacked Taiwanese fishing boast was killed in crossfire between the US Navy and Somali pirates, the ...

Marty: Somalia needs to increase anti- piracy capacity

Somalia needs to improve its capacity to overcome piracy, Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said. ...

Somali pirates still make no demands for release of Mt Gemini

Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said the Somali pirates who have also hijacked MT Gemini, a Singaporean commercial ...

President keeps silent over MV Sinar Kudus

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono admitted he had kept silent to support the operations to free MV Sinar Kudus and ...

President proud of task force`s success in rescuing sailors

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said he was proud of the military task force`s success in rescuing the crew of MV ...