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Ship guards trigger clashes with pirates

May 11, 2012 (UPI)

The growing use of armed guards on merchant ships plying the piracy-plagued waters of the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean has spawned increasingly violent enco...

India proposes norms for Indian Ocean anti-piracy patrols

Apr 17, 2012 (IANS)

With the Indian Ocean region infested by Somali pirates, India is spearheading an effort to create a naval standard operating procedure (SOP) for the 32 littora...

War planes strike suspected Somali pirate base: coastguard

Apr 17, 2012 (AFP)

War planes fired several missiles at a suspected Somali pirate base in the north of the war-torn country, wounding two civilians, a coastguard official said Tue...

Iran navy rescues China crew from hijacked freighter

Apr 07, 2012 (AFP)

The Iranian navy has freed 28 Chinese crew members less than a day after their cargo ship was hijacked by Somali pirates off the Islamic republic's south coast,...

Drones will seek pirates at sea

Apr 05, 2012 (UPI)

The U.S. Navy says it will begin tests of airborne pilotless drones equipped with sensors that could distinguish small pirate boats at sea from other vessels. A...

African piracy a threat to U.S. security?

Mar 19, 2012 (UPI)

Pirate attacks on merchant vessels in Africa pose a threat with ripple effects for U.S. homeland security and must be tackled as such, security industry experts...

NATO extends anti-piracy mission until 2014

Mar 19, 2012 (AFP)

NATO agreed Monday to extend its anti-piracy mission off the coast of Somalia until the end of 2014, stressing that foreign navies are helping to reduce the num...

Security improves in Mekong river

Mar 13, 2012 (IANS)

A four-nation joint patrol of the Mekong river has improved the security of the vessels following a deadly attack last year, reports Xinhua. Shipping on the riv...

Pirates kill four Nigerian soldiers in creek attack: army

Mar 04, 2012 (AFP)

Four Nigerian soldiers declared missing last week were killed by pirates in the restive oil-rich Niger Delta and their bodies have been recovered, an army spoke...

Danish navy frees 16 held by pirates, two hostages killed

Feb 28, 2012 (AFP)

The Danish Navy said Tuesday it had freed 16 hostages held by pirates off the Somali coast the previous day, but that two more captives were killed in the rescu...

Britain funds Seychelles anti-piracy plan

Feb 23, 2012 (UPI)

Britain said this week it will spend $870,000 to fund an anti-piracy intelligence center in the Seychelles to help with international policing efforts. British ...

Hit hard, Seychelles seeks Indian help against pirates

Feb 21, 2012 (IANS)

With its $1-billion economy losing about four percent of GDP to piracy, Seychelles has sought India's help in putting an end to this threat to trade in the Indi...

Denmark hands suspected Somali pirates to Kenya for trial

Feb 18, 2012 (AFP)

Kenya accepted Saturday to try four suspected pirates from neighbouring war-torn Somalia captured by a Danish warship in the Indian Ocean, officials said. The f...

Netherlands delays ACTA ratification

Feb 16, 2012 (UPI)

The Netherlands this week imposed delays on the ratification of the ACTA international anti-piracy agreement, which critics claim threatens Internet freedoms. O...

Manila gets second U.S. Coast Guard ship

Feb 16, 2012 (UPI)

The Philippines navy soon will receive its second decommissioned U.S. Coast Guard ship amid concern that the move sends the wrong signal to China. Final U.S. ap...

Somali piracy begets new security industry

Feb 14, 2012 (UPI)

The plague of Somali pirates marauding across the Indian Ocean has spawned a lucrative security industry that boasts 120 companies providing protection and whic...

Pirates kill captain, engineer in attack off Nigeria: IMB

Feb 13, 2012 (AFP)

Pirates fired on a cargo vessel off the coast of Nigeria on Monday killing the captain and chief engineer, a maritime watchdog body said as it warned shipping t...