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The Indian Express
April 21, 2018
She was the daughter of a retired advocate, while he claimed to be employed with the Merchant Navy, navigating the Arabian Sea. They met on a matrimonial website in October 2017 and soon exchanged numbers. The woman then asked the man, who identified himself as Vinoth Abhishek, to meet her as ...
Voice of America
April 5, 2018
In a classroom overlooking the harbor in the Somali city of Bossaso, Sarath Surasena teaches the basics of boat mechanics. The students are recruits for a new coast guard being established in Somalia's Galmudug state, once the epicenter of piracy that paralyzed Indian Ocean shipping lanes a decade ...
Undercurrent News
March 22, 2018
Somali pirates have returned as illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing continues in the Gulf of Aden, between Yemen and the Horn of Africa, News Security Beat reported. While piracy has diminished since 2008-2012, when these waters became some of the most lawless in the world, a spate of ...
New Security Beat (blog)
March 21, 2018
After pirates hijacked an Iranian fishing vessel last year near Bosasso, a major seaport in Puntland, Somalia, local authorities observed that the offending boat was casting nets without a license. While piracy has diminished since 2008-2012, when these waters became some of the most lawless in the world ...
TradeWinds
February 23, 2018
Suspected Somali pirates have exchanged fire with an armed security team onboard a Leopard Tankers ship in what is believed to be the first incident in the region this year. Shots were fired from pirates in three skiffs at the 50,000-dwt Leopard Sun (built 2013) last night 165 nautical miles from the ...
South China Morning Post
February 18, 2018
A Chinese navy officer who led a mission last year to rescue a merchant ship in the Gulf of Aden, which also resulted in the capture of three pirates, has been honoured as a hero in his home city, according to local media reports. Gong Kaifeng was visited by the vice-mayor of Fuzhou, in eastern China's ...
News24
November 23, 2017
Victoria - Six suspected Somali pirates have been transferred to the Seychelles following their arrest for attacks earlier this month off southern Somalia, a Seychelles prisons official said on Thursday. The suspects arrived on Thursday morning at the port of Victoria, capital of the Indian Ocean archipelago ...
The Conversation AU
July 3, 2017
The world heard little about piracy for years but media outlets are this year reporting that the Somali pirates are back. In May and June they hijacked fishing vessels that were sailing off the north-eastern coastal region of Somalia called Puntland. Historically, stopping pirates has always been difficult, ...
Aljazeera.com
June 23, 2017
Pirates appear to be making a comeback in the Indian Ocean. Attacks were common until warships from an international force launched a major crackdown five years ago. But the ambushing of four ships by Somali pirates has ended the relative calm. Al Jazeera's Mohammed Adow reports from Qandala in ...
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