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An Italian cruise ship with 1,500 people onboard thwarted an attack by Somali pirates about 330 kilometres from Victoria in the Seychelles islands along Africa's East coast. Private Israeli guards fired back and the pirates fled.
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the USS Bainbridge is rushing to rescue the captain of the Maersk Alabama, a US merchant marine cargo ship with 20 US citizens on board. He's held hostage by Somalian pirates on a lifeboat near the ship after the crew fought back and captured one pirate.
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The Russian newspaper Kommersant reports that scandalous details are emerging about an information leak as the crew of the released militiary cargo ship Faina arrived in Ukraine today.The vessel, loaded with heavy weaponry was released last week.
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Things went all pearshaped for five of the dozens of Somalian pirates while they were releasing the hijacked, 25-crew Saudi supertanker the Sirius Star on Friday. Five of the pirates drowned with some of the reputed $3m ransom money.
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The Somalian government supports the American call circulated at the UN today to aggressively combat piracy on its landed territory - not just in territorial waters.
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The number of Somalian pirates are growing - and their range has expanded from Somalian waters: they now are also hunting merchant vessels off the coasts of Tanzania and Kenya.
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A windmill-laden Dutch freighter is braving the piracy-haunted sea lanes of the Gulf of Aden-- accompanied by a Russian and a Dutch frigate.
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EU naval forces have conducted their first raid on pirate bases on the Somali mainland, saying they have destroyed several boats.
On board an oil tanker in waters roamed by pirates
Can Aardman's The Pirates! sail to success in the US?
Germany's Pirate Party sets sail for a role in national politics
The Netherlands' Pirate Party is banned from telling users how to bypass blocks to The Pirate Bay file-sharing site.
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