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Indonesian seaman held hostage by Nigerian pirates

An Indonesian seaman, along with three other seamen from Malaysia, Thailand and Iran have been held hostage by armed ...

China rescues fishermen held by Somali pirates for 18 months

China has rescued a group of 26 fishermen, mainly Chinese and Vietnamese, who were taken from a Taiwanese trawler ...

Somali piracy death toll rises as violence worsens

Somali pirates seizing Indian Ocean ships were responsible for at least 35 hostage deaths in 2011, a report showed on ...

Pirates shoot gas tanker off Oman

Pirates armed with guns and rocket propelled grenades shot a liquefied natural gas tanker off the coast of Oman on ...

Turkish commandos arrest 14 pirates, free seven Yemenis

Turkish commandos have arrested 14 pirates thought to be from Somalia off the coast of Oman and freed seven Yemeni ...

"The Avengers" smashes opening weekend box office record

"The Avengers" has scored the biggest opening weekend North America box office history with an astonishing 200.3 ...

"The Avengers" smashes opening weekend box office record

"The Avengers" has scored the biggest opening weekend North America box office history with an astonishing 200.3 ...

War planes strike suspected Somali pirate base: coastguard

War planes fired several missiles at a suspected Somali pirate base in the north of the war-torn country, wounding two ...

Danish warship stops Somali pirate vessel, 12 hostages freed

A Danish warship has apprehended a suspected pirate ship off Somalia`s coast, and released 12 hostages held on board, ...

Somali pirates release Panama-flagged ship amid ransom reports

Somali pirates have released a Panama-flagged vessel they seized two months ago allowing it to continue on its way to ...

Death toll from Somali theatre bombing rises to 6: minister

The death toll from an attack on Somalia`s newly reopened national theatre by a female suicide bomber last week has ...

Somali pirates hijack Iran cargo ship in Maldives

Somali pirates seized an Iranian-owned cargo ship and its 23-strong crew in the first hijacking within Maldivian ...

NATO extends anti-piracy mission until 2014

NATO agreed Monday to extend its anti-piracy mission off the coast of Somalia until the end of 2014, stressing that ...

Nigeria MEND militants claim attack, threaten oil ships

A Nigerian militant group based in the oil-producing Niger Delta claimed an attack on a police checkpoint on Thursday ...

Taiwanese national killed by Somali pirates

A Taiwanese crew member of a Panama-flagged cargo ship was shot dead when the vessel was attacked by Somali pirates ...