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• Somali pirate 'associate' says deal in the offing
Kenya reiterated on Wednesday its denial that the Faina's military cargo was secretly destined for South Sudan as a regional maritime group and some defense sources have said. Nairobi has been embarrassed by that accusation because it helped broker a ...
• 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 ...
• Boat of congresswomen's brother found
The area is busy with maritime traffic outside the adjacent Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors, the nation's largest port complex. Loretta Sanchez, 48, is in her sixth term representing the 47th District in Orange County. Linda Sanchez, 39, is in her ...
• Ancient reference calls Christ a 'magician'
It could very well be a reference to Jesus Christ, in that he was once the primary exponent of white magic," Goddio, co-founder of the Oxford Center of Maritime Archaeology, said. He and his colleagues found the object during an excavation of the ...
• Africans wary of new U.S. command
... for a Centcom-run base in Djibouti, where 1,800 troops are deployed to keep Horn of Africa terror networks in check. It also takes over European Command's Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Initiative and dozens of other military and maritime training ...