The skipper of a reportedly hijacked yacht off the Seychelles was safe aboard a EU warship but the whereabouts of the other crew members were unknown.
Until last year, the Seychelles was the last place you would expect to find Somali pirates.
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/ 3 November 2010
Somali pirates have increased the number of successful hijackings in 2010, become more violent and expanded their attack zone, the UN says.
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/ 12 October 2010
Warships keep watch against Somali pirates — but in the long run, newly arrived navies from India, China, Russia may be as much rivals as allies.
The first European trial of suspected Somali pirates opened in The Netherlands on Tuesday with five men denying they attempted to hijack a ship.
A French warship destroyed a pirate "mother ship" and 11 Somalis were seized in an anti-piracy operation off the Somali coast.
Up to 100 Indian sailors have been captured by Somali pirates, a shipping body said on Tuesday.
Somali pirates freed a Dutch freighter with a Ukrainian crew on Tuesday, nearly two months after the vessel was first captured in the Gulf of Aden.
Interpol is compiling a database of fingerprints, photographs and other personal information on Somali pirate suspects to help fight piracy at sea.
The European Union agreed on Monday to extend an anti-piracy operation off the coast of Somalia until the end of next year.
After a dramatic three-hour chase, seven Somali pirates stood on the deck of their mother ship watching the helicopter circling in the darkness above.
Driving a luxury 4×4 car and smoking imported cigarettes, Mohamed Said fears his flashy lifestyle as a Somali pirate could be about to come to an end.
Somali pirates hijacked a German cargo ship carrying 11 crew in the Gulf of Aden, the latest seizure by high-sea bandits.
A French yachtsman taken hostage by Somali pirates was shot and killed by French special forces last month, Europe 1 radio reported on Monday.
Somali pirates have hijacked a bulk carrier in the Indian Ocean, their first successful attack in almost a week, a maritime watchdog said on Saturday.
Somali pirates attacked the Italian merchant ship, the Jolly Smeraldo, on Thursday for a second day in a row.
A Spanish warship has intercepted a skiff carrying nine suspected Somali pirates believed to have attacked an Italian cruise ship at the weekend.
Somali pirates attacked a Maltese flagged-ship before dawn on Monday with rocket-propelled grenades, but the ship escaped unharmed.
Pirates seized ships from France, Britain, Germany, Taiwan and Yemen, defying world powers by prowling further out in the ocean to target victims.
Pirates were taking two European-owned tankers to Somali coastal havens on Friday and are likely to demand ransoms soon.
Pirates fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons at cargo ships off the coast of Somalia but fled after the ships took evasive action.
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/ 13 February 2009
Heavily armed Somali pirates attacked six ships earlier this week but all managed to escape, a global maritime watchdog said on Friday.
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/ 6 February 2009
Somali pirates freed an arms-laden ship on Thursday, speeding off in small boats with a ,2-million ransom.
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/ 4 February 2009
The way you spot a Somali pirate in a sea of fishermen, says a top French naval commander, is not the AK-47s on his skiff — it’s the ladder on deck.
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/ 2 February 2009
Somalia’s new president has called for a united front against extremists and said he aims to bring together the country’s feuding Islamic factions.
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/ 16 January 2009
Pirates have released a Danish cargo ship and its 13 crew members — held off the Somali coast since early November — after a ransom was paid.
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/ 12 January 2009
The body of a Somali pirate, who drowned just after receiving a huge ransom, has washed ashore with 000 in cash.
Somali pirates said on Friday they had freed a Saudi-owned supertanker, whose capture nearly two months ago wreaked panic in international shipping.
Somali pirates released a Turkish cargo ship hijacked in October after its owners paid a ransom, Turkey’s Anatolian news agency said on Wednesday.
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/ 21 December 2008
China will send two navy destroyers and a support vessel to the Gulf of Aden to combat piracy off the Somalia coast, it said on Saturday.
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/ 18 December 2008
China will send warships to the seas off Somalia to help international efforts to fight piracy there, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
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/ 11 December 2008
The US circulated a draft UN Security Council resolution on Wednesday seeking international authorisation to hunt Somali pirates on land.