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It's been a busy, profitable week for Somali pirates: They hijacked one South Korean bulk carrier Wednesday, released another South Korean cargo ship Thursday and let a hijacked Thai ship go Saturday after getting a ransom.
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20 crew members of Ukrainian ship still held captive by Somali pirates
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US Navy: Crew of Ukrainian ship seized by Somali pirates appear healthy
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- A fishing boat carrying 11 crew members sent a distress call in stormy weather off Alaska's Aleutian Islands early Wednesday, bringing searchers who found remnants of an emergency in the water but no sign of the crew....
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A newspaper spoke on the phone to one of the pirates
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Pirates hijacked a Turkish ship with 20 crew off the coast of Somalia but at least six other ships have fended off pirate attacks in the last two days, officials said Thursday.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- In a dramatic escalation of high seas crime, Somali pirates hijacked a Saudi supertanker loaded with crude hundreds of miles off the coast of East Africa - defeating the security web of warships trying to protect vital shipping lanes....
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West Country sailor Pete Goss and his crew cross the equator in their journey in a wooden fishing boat to Australia.
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Somali pirates have released a hijacked Greek-owned tanker with all 19 crew safe and the oil cargo intact after payment of a ransom, the ship's management company said today.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somali pirates have hijacked another vessel, a Yemen cargo ship, in the Gulf of Aden, a regional maritime official said on Tuesday.
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Somali pirates have...
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A supposed Somali pirate vessel fired upon and sunk by an Indian warship last week was acutally a Thai fishing trawler that had been hijacked earlier, a maritime agency said Wednesday.
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A maritime watchdog says that a vessel sunk by the Indian navy in the Gulf of Aden was a Thai fishing trawler and not a Somali pirate vessel. India's navy denied the reports and said the ship it sank was hostile.
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Somali pirates have hijacked a Yemeni vessel, the MV Amani, in the Gulf of Aden near Yemen. This comes on the heels of an inundation of Somali attacks on pirate ships, some of which have included ransom demands.
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Somali pirates hijacked a chemical tanker with dozens of Indian crew members on board Friday, and three British security guards were rescued by helicopter after jumping into the sea, officials said.
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Somali pirates seized control of a chemical tanker in the Gulf of Aden on Friday and a NATO helicopter gunship, too late to prevent the hijacking, picked up three security guards who jumped into the sea....
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Somali pirates hijacked a chemical tanker with dozens of Indian crew members on board Friday, and three British security guards were rescued by helicopter after jumping into the sea, officials said.
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The Somali pirates have...
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Somali pirates seized a chemical tanker in the Gulf of Aden on Friday and a NATO helicopter gunship, too late to prevent the hijacking, picked up three security guards who jumped into the sea.
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Pirates near Somalia chased and shot at a U.S. cruise liner with more than 1,000 people on board but failed to hijack the vessel, a maritime official said Tuesday.
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Pirates near Somalia chased and shot at a U.S. cruise liner with more than 1,000 people on board but failed to hijack the vessel, a maritime official said Tuesday.
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With more than 1,000 people on board
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The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has received no reports confirming an attack by the crewmembers of the Faina ship on the Somali pirates who captured the vessel in September.
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The news agency...
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Pirates boarded a Chinese cargo ship off the coast of Somalia but failed to hijack the vessel Wednesday, thanks to quick action by a naval force patrolling the area, a maritime official said....
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The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Quick action by a German warship halted an attack on an Egyptian bulk carrier in the Gulf of Aden Thursday by Somali pirates trying to hijack it, the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said.
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Crewmen fired high pressure water jets Friday to fight off heavily armed Somali pirates trying to board a Greek oil tanker in the dangerous Gulf of Aden, officials said. It was the fourth pirate attack of the new year....
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Somali pirates holding a Ukrainian cargo ship carrying military tanks threaten to blow it up if they are not paid a ransom.
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Following requests from the ship`s owner
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If ransom not paid
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BOSASSO, Somalia (Reuters) - Somali security forces freed a Panamanian ship from pirates on Tuesday, officials said, two days after they killed one of the hijackers in a gun battle.
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A maritime official says armed pirates have hijacked a bulk carrier with 21 crew members in the Gulf of Aden near Somalia.
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Somali pirates holding an arms-laden Ukrainian ship have withdrawn their threat to blow up the vessel if a ransom is not paid, and said Wednesday they are negotiating for its release.
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Because they are negotiating its release
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Pirates who seized a cargo ship off the coast of Somalia more than a month ago on Thursday freed the 22 sailors and the vessel, a South Korean official said....
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Daily Telegraph - The Royal Navy could be given powers to seize Somalian pirates plaguing the Gulf of Aden and hand them over to the wartorn country's authorities.
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