#ransom

A French court on Wednesday jailed five Somali men for between four and eight years for taking a French couple hostage ...

An Italian merchant ship hijacked by Somali pirates in April in the Arabian Sea near Oman with six Italians and 15 ...

Somali pirates have released a Greek owned bulk carrier with 24 crew members in the Gulf of Aden, about 490 nautical ...

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

Somali authorities have released three Turkish aid workers they detained for delivering aid to drought victms in an ...

A tanker seized by pirates in the Indian Ocean in October with 24 crew was released on Friday after a "long and ...

Somali pirates have freed a Maltese owned and registered bulk carrier after the payment of a ransom by its owners, the ...

Nineteen-year-old Mehdi was looking forward to meeting the girl who had been calling for days on his cell phone. But ...

The State Logistics Agency (Bulog) is ready to conduct rice market operations in several regions to stabilize ...

Iraqi authorities have arrested seven alleged members of an Al-Qaeda cell suspected of raping a seven-year-old girl ...

Somali pirates have freed a German-owned cargo ship, seized in April, after they received a ransom, a pirate and ...

An Egyptian boat seized with its 22-member crew by pirates off the coast of Somalia in August 2010 has been freed, an ...

Somali pirates rescued nineteen crew members of the MV ORNA after their hijacked ship caught fire off the Horn of ...

The Indonesian and South Korean navies have agreed to cooperate in handling piracy and a variety of other crimes at ...

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