Somali Pirate Claims $3.3M Ransom Paid To Free 36 Hostages On Ship
MOGADISHU, Somalia — As a Spanish warship looked on, a $3.3 million ransom was delivered by boat Tuesday and Somali pirates freed a Spanish traw...
MOGADISHU, Somalia — As a Spanish warship looked on, a $3.3 million ransom was delivered by boat Tuesday and Somali pirates freed a Spanish traw...
AP | MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN | Posted 09.14.2009 | World
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Using machetes and guns, the men fought a desperate battle to take control of two boats off the Somali coast. But this time...
Global Post | Posted 07.13.2009 | World
By Tristan McConnell | GlobalPost BERBERA, Somaliland -- The slight figure of Farah Ismail Eid is a far cry from the swashbuckling, murderous imag...
BBC | Posted 07.05.2009 | World
As he looked at the radar screen Captain Andrey Nozhkin immediately feared the worst. A small vessel was closing fast from the stern....
AP | ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY | Posted 06.04.2009 | World
NAIROBI, Kenya — South Korean snipers hovering in a helicopter Monday chased away pirates pursuing a North Korean freighter, a rare instance of ...
Telegraph | Posted 05.31.2009 | World
A British tourist celebrated his birthday by helping to save a packed cruise ship from hijack when he hurled a deck chair at Somali pirates....
Telegraph | Posted 05.29.2009 | World
Somalia's fishermen have formed sea-going vigilante teams to fight back against pirates who are hijacking their boats, it was reported on Tuesday....
AP | Posted 05.29.2009 | World
NAIROBI, Kenya — The Seychelles Coast Guard says it has arrested nine suspected pirates believed to be behind the attempted hijacking of a luxur...
WardHeerNews | Posted 05.21.2009 | World
Garowe, (WDN) - The Somali pirates that have wreaked havoc on the shipping lanes of the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean in recent years have been wi...
Warren Holstein | Posted 05.17.2009 | Comedy
Avast, ye picaroons! If landlubber Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has his way, good ole American privateers will be set loose on ye wily pillaging Somalian buccaneers and get all War of 1812 on yer booties.
BBC | Posted 05.17.2009 | World
Eleven Somali pirates captured this week by a French warship are being taken to Kenya for trial, the French defence ministry has said....
Guardian | Posted 05.11.2009 | World
French forces have freed a yacht captured by pirates off Somalia last weekend in an operation that left one hostage and two of the pirates dead, accor...
AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.09.2009 | World
The International Maritime Bureau says 260 crew on 14 hijacked ships are being held off the coast of Somalia, not including the U.S.-flagged ship seiz...
Sky News | Posted 04.30.2009 | World
A group of pirates got a nasty surprise when they attacked a merchant ship - that turned out to be a German naval vessel....
AP | Posted 04.26.2009 | World
Pirates have captured a Panama-registered tanker with 19 crew off Somalia, Nato said today. The US Navy is reporting that a Norwegian-owned cargo vess...
AP | KATHARINE HOURELD | Posted 03.08.2009 | World
NAIROBI, Kenya — As U.S. Navy ships looked on, Somali pirates sped away Thursday with $3.2 million in ransom after releasing an arms-laden Ukrai...
AP | MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN | Posted 02.11.2009 | World
MOGADISHU, Somalia — The body of a Somali pirate who drowned just after receiving a huge ransom washed onshore with $153,000 in cash, a resident...
AP | MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN | Posted 02.10.2009 | World
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Five of the Somali pirates who released a hijacked oil-laden Saudi supertanker drowned with their share of a reported $3 mi...
AP | MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN and DANIEL WOOLLS | Posted 11.18.2009 | World