BRUSSELS (AFP) - (AFP) - Pirates have hijacked a petrol tanker belonging to the United Arab Emirates in the Indian Ocean and are sailing it to the Somali coast, the EU's anti-piracy body announced on Monday.
"Late on the morning of July 16, it was reported by the owners that the MV Jubba 20, a laden tanker, had been pirated in the northern Indian Ocean, on her regular route from the [...]
COPENHAGEN (AFP) - A Danish military ship has attacked a pirate boat in Somalian waters, killing four pirates and freeing 16 Iranian hostages on board, Denmark's navy said Sunday.
Ten other pirates were also wounded during gun battles between the Danish vessel Esbern Snare and the pirate "mother-ship" off Somalia on Thursday.
"The 16 hostages are waiting to see their families," the [...]
SANAA (AFP) - President Ali Abdullah Saleh has warned of Somalia-like "chaos" in Yemen if he steps down without an agreed successor as Washington said on Sunday his fall could endanger its fight against Al-Qaeda.
Highlighting the multiple challenges facing any ruler of Yemen, suspected Al-Qaeda militants seized control of Jaar, a town in the restive southern province of Abyan, security of [...]
DUBAI (AFP) - The Irene SL, a Greek-flagged oil-laden supertanker pirated off Oman was headed toward the Somali coast on Thursday, but there has been no contact with the ship, the Combined Maritime Forces said.
"The only thing that has changed is its position, and at 0400 Zulu (GMT) ... it was 150 nautical miles (277 kilometres) southeast of the Omani coast, heading toward the Somali coas [...]
ADEN, Yemen (AFP) - A court in Yemen's southeastern city of Mukalla sentenced 13 Somalis each to 12 years in jail on Saturday after convicting them of piracy, a judicial source said.
The men, whose trial had started in October last year, were found guilty of seizing two Yemeni boats in the Gulf of Aden to use as mother ships from which to launch attacks on merchant vessels.
Yemen's navy said [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US government said Friday it has offered its services to an American held in Kuwait and who reportedly alleges he was beaten by security agents inquiring about his trips to Somalia and Yemen.
Gulet Mohamed, a 19-year-old born in Somalia, was detained at an airport in Kuwait when he traveled there last month to renew his visa, according to The Washington Post which q [...]
SEOUL (AFP) - A South Korean supertanker, released by Somali pirates at the weekend seven months after it was hijacked, is sailing towards a port in Oman, Seoul military officials said Monday.
The 300,000-tonne Samho Dream and its 24 crew -- five South Koreans and 19 Filipinos -- were freed near a Somali pirate base on Saturday.
The tanker, escorted by a South Korean warship, is expected to ar [...]
ADEN, Yemen (AFP) - A Yemeni court sentenced 10 Somalis accused of piracy to five years in prison and acquitted three others in the southern port city of Aden on Sunday.
Judge Mohammed al-Abyad read the verdict in Aden's specialised criminal court, adding that the defendants, found guilty on piracy charges, had the right to appeal.
The 13 were arrested on October 12, 2009 in the Gulf of [...]
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