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US court drops piracy charges against 6 Somalis
Virginia (Alshahid) – A federal judge in Virginia USA has thrown out piracy charges against six Somalis accused of attacking a US Navy ship last spring off the coast of… Read more
Helicopter from US warship repels Somali pirate
Nairobi (Alshahid) — NATO says a helicopter from a U.S. warship has interrupted a pirate attack off the coast of Somalia. NATO says the merchant ship Ice Explorer was moving… Read more
Somalia Security Forces arrest 7 Pirates
Garowe (Alshahid) – Security forces from Somalia’s semi-autonomous state of Puntland arrested seven Somali pirates at Xamxaama village about 80km to Garowe capital of Puntland. Nugal region police commander Abdirahman… Read more
Somali pirates hijack sugar cargo ship
Brussels (Alshahid) – Somali pirates seized a freighter with 24 Syrian and Egyptian crew members in the waters of the Gulf of Aden, the EU’s anti-piracy force said. This a… Read more
EU helicopter repels pirate attack on Norwegian Chemical tanker
Nairobi (Alshahid) — The European Union Naval Force says pirates attacked a chemical tanker in the Gulf of Aden early Tuesday but that an EU helicopter sent to the scene… Read more
Somali pirates hijack 23 crew cargo ship
Nairobi (Alshahid) — The European Union Naval Force says Somali pirates have hijacked a Panamanian-flagged cargo ship with 23 crew members on board mainly from Egypt, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and… Read more
Somali pirates free Turkish ship after 4 months
Istanbul (Alshahid) – Somali pirates have released the Turkish ship Frigia which they hijacked four months ago said a lawyer with the vessel’s Turkey-based owner company, Turkish state-run broadcast TRT… Read more
Russia arrests pirates on mystery ship
MOSCOW - The freighter Arctic Sea has resurfaced after its mysterious disappearance, but many questions about the incident remain unanswered: Who are the alleged pirates who hijacked the ship? Did it… Read more
More Somali pirate attacks expected in September
The British commander of the European Union’s anti-piracy operation off the coast of Somalia has warned that there could be a significant increase in pirate attacks on merchant ships following… Read more
