BOSASSO, Somalia, Dec. 1, 2008 (Reuters) — Somali pirates have agreed to release a Yemeni cargo ship without ransom after successful negotiations between the hijackers, local elders and a Yemeni official, a local official said Monday. ... > full story
BOSASSO, Somalia, Nov. 30, 2008 (Reuters) — Somali security forces have arrested five men for the kidnapping this week of two European journalists who are being held in the hills east of Bosasso, the local governor said on Sunday. ... > full story
NAIROBI, Nov. 30, 2008 (Reuters) — Somali pirates and owners of a Ukrainian ship carrying 33 tanks and other military hardware have reached a deal to release the vessel, a Kenyan maritime official said Sunday. ... > full story
ADDIS ABABA, Nov. 28, 2008 (Reuters) — Ethiopia said on Friday it would withdraw its troops from Somalia by the end of this year, piling pressure on Somalia's feuding government and African nations that had promised to send peacekeepers. ... > full story
BAIDOA, Somalia, Nov. 27, 2008 (Reuters) — At least five people were killed and 17 injured Thursday when assailants tossed grenades into a busy market in the town where Somalia's parliament sits, witnesses said. ... > full story
BOSASSO, Somalia, Nov. 26, 2008 (Reuters) — Somali gunmen kidnapped two Western journalists in the northern province of Puntland on Wednesday, police said, in the latest attack on foreigners working in the lawless Horn of Africa nation. ... > full story
BOSASSO, Somalia, Nov. 26, 2008 (Reuters) — Somali security forces will storm a hijacked Yemeni cargo ship if the pirates holding it refuse to free it without a ransom, a minister in the semi-autonomous northern Puntland region said on Wednesday. ... > full story
BOSASSO, Somalia, Nov. 23, 2008 (Reuters) — As dawn breaks over the Indian Ocean each morning, elders in Somali pirate bases sip strong coffee and clutch mobile phones to their ears, eager to hear the latest from the gunmen out at sea. ... > full story
LIMA, Nov. 22, 2008 (Reuters) — George W. Bush held his last meeting as U.S. president with a Russian leader on Saturday, telling Dmitry Medvedev he had worked hard to make it a "cordial relationship" despite difficult disagreements. ... > full story
Pirates target luxury liner Dec. 1, 2008 (AdelaideNow, Australia) — A LUXURY cruise ship with up to 50 Australians on board has been fired on by Gulf of Aden pirates who came within a few hundred metres of the giant ...
Pirates shoot at Irishman during escape Nov. 30, 2008 (Independent, Ireland) — Somali pirates tried to shoot a Dublin man and his two British friends as they fled a hijacked ship before trying to run them down in the water.. ...
Pirates: despicable, desperate and daring Nov. 23, 2008 (London Times) — Ever since freelance booty-hunters spotted the vulnerability of Homeric-age galleys forging trade routes in the Mediterranean, pirates have been a ...
Promising new waters for al-Qa'ida? Nov. 22, 2008 (Independent, UK) — What comes into your head the moment I say the word "pirate"? Most probably a romantic vision of a dashing swordsman in a 17th-century costume and ...
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