News Source: The Boston Globe
| about 1 month ago
Navy says an American-flagged cargo vessel has escaped a brush with armed pirates off the coast of East Africa. A spokesman for the U.S. Fleet in Bahrain says the MV Harriette came under small arms fire from suspected pirates Monday aboard two...
News Source: Seattle Times
| about 1 month ago
Somalia — The European Union's anti-piracy force says a Norwegian warship has clashed with suspected Somali pirates. Fridjof Nansen on Sunday went to talk to the crew of four fishing boats near Alula, a northeastern Somali coastal village known for...
News Source: The Age
| about 1 month ago
The Norwegian sailors, cruising just off the north-eastern Somali coast, were fired upon in the dead of night early on Sunday by a dhow with between five and seven men on board and armed with heavy weaponry and Kalashnikov rifles, he says. "These...