Italian cruise ship fends off pirates
GenevaLunch News An Italian cruise ship heading from South Africa to Italy has headed for Jordan as scheduled after fighting off a group of pirates off the coast of Somalia. The pirates, who arrived in...
View ArticleSomali pirates fire on US Navy helicopter
GenevaLunch News Pirates holding a Taiwanese-flagged ship since 6 April off the coast of Somalia fired on a US Navy helicopter that was monitoring it, 26 August. The US Navy says that the helicopter...
View ArticleKenya seizes Somalia “pirates” plane
GenevaLunch News A plane carrying 37 people reportedly remains under tight surveillance at Nairobi’s international airport in Kenya since it arrived late Saturday 5 September from the Seychelles,...
View ArticleSomalia rebels make demands for release of French hostage
GenevaLunch News The Somali militant Islamist group, al Shabaab, holding a French security contractor since July, have said they will release him if France stops supporting the Western-backed...
View ArticleSpanish foreign minister calls for EU blockade on pirate ports in Somalia
GenevaLunch News Foreign Minister Carme Chacón said Wednesday that she will propose to EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels next Monday and Tuesday that the EU’s anti-piracy campaign in the Indian...
View ArticleSomali pirates seize German freighter
GenevaLunch News The German freighter, Beluga Fortune, has been captured by Somali pirates almost 2,000km off the coast of Kenya, authorities said 24 October. The raid comes a day after a Greek tanker...
View ArticleFour Americans on yacht killed by pirates
GenevaLunch News A rescue by the US Navy of four Americans who were captured by pirates while sailing around the world on a yacht went badly wrong Tuesday 22 February when the two couples and four...
View ArticleBulk cargo carrier pirated in Somalia, another one released from pirates
GenevaLunch News A Panama-flagged vessel has been pirated approximately 260 nautical miles North East of Salalah in the North Arabian Sea says the European Union Naval Force. The MV-Dover has a crew of...
View ArticlePirates take Danish family yacht in Indian Ocean
GenevaLunch News Three children, ages 12 to 16, are among the seven people taken hostage in the Indian Ocean when a Danish family’s yacht was seized Thursday 24 February by pirates. Two crew members...
View ArticleSomali kidnappers demand ransom for French woman’s remains
GenevaLunch News France announced that 66-year-old Marie Dedieu, who was kidnapped on October 1 from her beach house in Kenya, and taken to Somalia, has died in the hands of her captors, most probably...
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