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• Ivory, hippo teeth, animal skins found in raids
NAIROBI, Kenya - An undercover investigation of the illegal wildlife trade in five African nations led to the seizure of about a ton of ivory along with hippo teeth and cheetah, leopard and python skins, the Kenya Wildlife Service said Monday. A four ...
• CONTINUED : No 'U.S. ships on station'
Sailors onboard the HMS Cumberland arrested the suspects, who will be tried in Kenya on Nov. 11, after they had attacked a Danish merchant vessel using a captured Yemeni ship. Ainsworth, speaking in Nairobi, Kenya, said it showed that warships could ...
• Ships diverted after Saudi oil tanker hijacked
... an Iranian cargo ship Tuesday, the seventh vessel seized in 12 days. Odfjell SE said it made the decision to divert its ships after pirates seized the Saudi Arabian supertanker MV Sirius Star over the weekend hundreds of miles off the coast of Kenya ...
• Photo features
World reacts to Obama’s victory From the U.S. president-elect’s ancestral homes in Kenya and Ireland to his namesake town in Japan, election fever grips the globe.
• Shipper: Militaries must confront pirates
Concerns over piracy heightened this week when gunmen off the coast of Kenya hijacked a tanker owned by Saudi Aramco carrying 2 million barrels of oil worth about $100 million. So far this year more than 120 attacks have been reported off the coast of ...