The 16 Spanish crew members of a tuna trawler held for more than a month by Somali pirates arrived in Madrid on Saturday, ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - Somalia has announced it plans to ratify a global treaty aimed at protecting children, leaving the United States as the ...
Somali pirates attack US-flagged Maersk Alabama for second time; guards repel attack Guards aboard the Maersk Alabama used guns and a sound blaster Wednesday to repel the second pirate attack in seven months on the U.S. vessel at a time when ships ...
In this April 23, 2009 file photo Mariner John Cronan poses for a portrait at his home in Merion Station, Pa. Cronan was a crewman aboard the Maersk Alabama when pirates attacked off the coast of Somalia in April. He and and ...
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 on Wednesday. "The captain has passed away due to ...
Admiral praises action off Somalia that foiled pirate attack against Maersk Alabama The head of U.S. naval forces in the Middle East is praising action by armed guards that foiled a pirate attack off the coast of Somalia. Vice Admiral Bill Gortney ...
Somali woman stoned to death for adultery, boyfriend given 100 lashes A judge for an Islamic militant group in Somalia says a woman has been stoned to death and her boyfriend given 100 lashes for having an affair. Sheikh Ibrahim Abdirahman, the ...
Lawless Somalia and war-torn Afghanistan topped a blacklist on Tuesday of the world's most corrupt countries drawn up by the anti-graft watchdog Transparency International. TI's annual corruption index showed how countries devastated by conflict have become overrun by graft with Iraq, Sudan ...
Lawless Somalia and war-torn Afghanistan topped a blacklist on Tuesday of the world's most corrupt countries drawn up by the anti-graft watchdog Transparency International. TI's annual corruption index showed how countries devastated by conflict have become overrun by graft with Iraq, Sudan ...
A leading watchdog on Tuesday named Afghanistan as the world's second most corrupt country in a league table topped by lawless Somalia, highlighting President Hamid Karzai's failure to tackle rampant graft. Transparency International's annual corruption list showed how countries devastated by conflict ...
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 ...
Lawless Somalia and war-torn Afghanistan topped a blacklist on Tuesday of the world's most corrupt countries drawn up by the anti-graft watchdog Transparency International. TI's annual corruption index showed how countries devastated by conflict have become overrun by graft with Iraq, Sudan ...
