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Security forces in northern Somalia storm a Panamanian-registered ship seized by pirates.
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Somali forces on Tuesday freed the 11-man crew of a hijacked ship and captured the 10 pirates who seized the vessel last week, according to the foreign minister for Puntland, a semi-autonomous region of northern Somalia.
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SINGAPORE/TOKYO (Reuters) - Recession fears returned to center stage on Wednesday after trillions of dollars pledged for bank bailouts from Europe to Asia helped allay fears of an imminent financial meltdown.
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The Pirate Bay (TPB), one of the world's biggest torrent tracker sites, found itself embroiled in controversy last month, when a link to a torrent containing photographs of a grisly child murder in Sweden appeared on the site.
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A Ukrainian cargo ship loaded with weaponry remains in the hands of Somali hijackers.
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City bankers have not lost a penny of their multimillion-pound bonus packages so far, despite the credit crunch which has caused the worst financial crisis in 80 years, new figures show.
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Despite international outrage at the persistence of piracy in the waters off Somalia, there appears to be no consensus yet on how to deal with the problem.
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Tournament highlighted the first Key Largo Pirates Fest in Florida.
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The crew of an Indian cargo vessel that was hijacked by Somali pirates has been freed by freelance coast guards following a gun battle, officials said Tuesday.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia this year have surged 75 percent, an international maritime agency said Thursday as it called for serious international action against the brigands who "operate with impunity."...
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Tyron Henderson aims to derail England's Stanford Twenty20 plans
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Pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia this year have surged 75 per cent, an international maritime agency said Thursday as it called for serious international action against the brigands who "operate with impunity."
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Pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia have increased by 75 per cent, maritime officials said Thursday, even as a Canadian navy ship was finishing its patrol of the perilous waters.
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NATO warships safely escorted a cargo of supplies through the pirate-infested waters off Somalia on Monday and hijackers holding an arms-laden Ukrainian vessel said its operators do not want to negotiate for the weapons.
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Piracy along the coast of Somalia has been a persistent problem for the past year. NATO and EU officials hope that a show of military force can do some good. Not everyone is convinced.
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The European Union announced details Tuesday of its planned anti-piracy patrols off Somalia's coast, saying at least four warships backed by aircraft would begin policing the dangerous waters in December.
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You can't take it with you, but it turns out you can keep making it after you're gone.
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A couple who claim they have never played a video game are accused of illegal file-sharing.
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Turkish officials are investigating reports of a hijacking following distress signals from a Turkish-owned freighter in the Gulf of Aden, a Turkish Foreign Ministry official said Thursday.
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For many Somalis on the coast, piracy is the only way to earn a living in a country without a functioning government and faced with soaring inflation, civil war and rising malnutrition. Reporting from Haradhere, Somalia, and Nairobi, Kenya -- Straddling a wooden crate filled with $1 million in cash ransom, a cranky old pirate bellows names from a notebook as his anxious, bleary-eyed minions lean against the stone walls of their cramped hide-out.
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Amanda Staveley is set to bag almost £40m in commission paid to her boutique advisory firm, PCP Capital Partners, for brokering last week's £3.5bn capital injection into Barclays by Middle East investors.
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At almost 40 years old, Danish supermodel Helena Christensen is showing the world that she is still as sexy as ever with a racy new lingerie campaign, the U.K.s Daily Mail is reporting.
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CONTROVERSIAL comedian Russell Brand is "in talks" to star in the fourth instalment of Pirates of the Caribbean.
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Barack Obama became a prime-time star last week by reaching across NBC, CBS, Fox, Univision and three cable networks.
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Donald Trump's £1bn development brings the total investment currently planned for the north-east of Scotland to £3bn.
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The legend of Störtebeker, the egalitarian pirate, has been rejuvenated in Germany, partly as a response to the growing sense of economic justice.
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As modern inequality grows, films and pageants bring back a Baltic Robin Hood who supposedly stole from the rich and gave to the poor.
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Millions of pounds is being spent promoting Yorkshire and the Humber region as a must-see spot for tourists.
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11/07/08 - Play 6 classic video poker games with a pirate theme.
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VMware, a provider of virtualization solutions for PCs and servers, wants to get into mobile phones, carve up their software and create virtual operating units -- much like the company's products already do with servers in enterprise data centers. The company announced its intentions Monday regarding its nascent VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform.
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Russian and British forces repelled a pirate attack off Somalia in the first action by a Russian warship sent to bolster international forces fighting a plague of hijackings.
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The Russian navy says Russian and British ships have repelled a pirate attack off Somalia in the Gulf of Aden.
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Royal Navy seamen shot dead two suspected pirates who were believed to have attacked a Danish vessel, it has been confirmed.
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Royal Marines have shot dead two Somali gunmen in a raid on a fishing boat used by pirates in the Gulf of Aden.
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Royal Navy seamen shot dead two suspected pirates who were believed to have attacked a Danish vessel, it has been confirmed.
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As the United States gets ready for its upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, retail organizations are gearing up for their annual Black Friday sales. This year, though, they face a difficult economic climate, and many consumers may be especially tight with their cash this time around. Some retailers -- especially those that sell consumer electronics -- are expected to cut prices even deeper than usual.
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