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• Countries push back against Somalia's pirates
DEAUVILLE, France - Armed pirates aboard fast-moving skiffs have increasingly turned the shipping lanes off Somalia into a lucrative hunting grounds: commandeering vessels large and small and leaving the world's maritime powers frustrated about how ...
• Greece plans housing facility for immigrants
For years illegal immigrants have gravitated toward Patras, a major maritime hub where many hope to smuggle themselves onto ships or ship-bound trucks. In the past most migrants in Patras were Kurds from Turkey and Iraq, but today they are all Afghans ...
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Another tropical storm, Higos, was churning across Vietnamese maritime territory toward China's Hainan island on Thursday and threatening hundreds of fishermen stuck at sea, said disaster official Nguyen Ngoc Dien of Quang Binh province. "We are not ...
• Crew on hijacked ship off Somalia said to be OK
Last week, Kenya arrested a maritime watchdog official, Andrew Mwangura, who was the first person to say publicly that the tanks and weapons aboard the hijacked ship were headed for Sudan. Police did not say what laws Mwangura was suspected of ...
• 6 U.S. warships circle hijacked ship off Somalia
Meanwhile, activists condemned Kenya’s arrest of a Kenyan maritime official on Wednesday night who had been the first to tip off media that the weapons aboard the ship hijacked nine days ago were heading to southern Sudan. His account was later ...