Somali pirates captured a freighter, a bulk carrier and a chemical tanker in a few days, defying foreign warships in the Gulf of ...
Camille Hoareau stands on Denis Island's beach of creamy-white sand, exactly where trees used to grow a few years ago and where the ...
ATHENS (Reuters) - Somali pirates have seized a Greek-flagged oil tanker near the Seychelles, more than 700 miles off the coast of Somalia, Greece's coastguard said on Monday. The 300,294-dwt Maran Centaurus was sailing from Kuwait to the Gulf of Mexico with ...
ATHENS (Reuters) - Somali pirates have seized a Greek-flagged oil tanker 700 miles off the coast of Somalia, near the Seychelles, Greece's coastguard said Monday. The Maran Centaurus was sailing from Kuwait to the Gulf of Mexico with its 28 crew, when ...
The 16 Spanish crew members of a tuna trawler held for more than a month by Somali pirates arrived in Madrid on Saturday, the defence ministry said, as the skipper described being beaten during the ordeal. The Alakrana crew members flew into ...
The Spanish trawler Alakrana and its crew of 36 docked safely in the Seychelles on Friday, three days after being released by the Somali pirates who captured them six weeks earlier. "We are all very relieved to be back... We cannot say ...
AT SEA - NOVEMBER 17: In this handout image provided by the Ministerio de Defensa de Espana, men wave aboard the 'Alakrana' fishing vessel on November 17, 2009 on route to Victoria Port in the Seychelles Islands.The 'Alakrana' had been held for ...
The captain of a chemical tanker captured by Somali pirates this week off the Seychelles with 28 North Koreans on board has died of his wounds after being shot, a pirate told AFP Wednesday. "The captain has passed away due to the ...
Somali pirates on Tuesday released a Spanish tuna trawler and its 36 crew seized more than a month ago in the Indian Ocean, saying they had been paid a four-million-dollar (2.6-million-euro) ransom. Speaking in Madrid, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero ...
Global warming is "inextricably linked" to food security, Seychelles President James Michel said Monday, lamenting reports that no binding agreement is expected at the UN climate change talks in Copenhagen next month. Speaking to AFP on the sidelines of the UN Hunger ...
Somali pirates have released a Spanish tuna trawler and its crew of 36 which they seized over a month ago in the Indian Ocean, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Tuesday. "I can confirm that the Alakrana fishing trawler is ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali pirates on Tuesday freed a Spanish tuna fishing boat hijacked last month and one of the gang said a $3.5 million ransom had been paid for the vessel and its crew. The release of the Alakrana, seized along ...
