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7 hrs ago | News.com.au

Crew of hijacked Belgian ship head home

CREW members of a Belgian ship hijacked by pirates off Somalia in mid-April will be re-united with their families early next week, Belgium's government crisis centre said.

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11 hrs ago | Kenya Broadcasting Corporation

Somali pirates on trial allowed to talk to their kin

A Mombasa court has finally allowed seven Somali pirates on trial to communicate with their relatives back in Somalia.

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19 hrs ago | Xinhuanet

Iran's presence in int'l waters sign of power: commander

The commander of Iran's Navy Real-Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said Wednesday that presence of Iran's naval forces in international waters displays the country's military power, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.

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Related Topix: Middle East, Iran, World News

Fri Jul 03, 2009

Canada.com

Accused Somali pirate faces life in prison

New York Attorney General Lev Dassin said Tuesday the charge of piracy brought against a young Somali captured during a high seas drama carries a mandatory term of life imprisonment.

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Related Topix: Prison

PR-inside.com

25 dead in 2 days in Somalia, witnesses say

Fighting in the Somali capital has killed 25 people over two days, leaving corpses in the streets of a city where a bloody insurgency is intensifying, doctors and witnesses said Thursday.

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Related Topix: Somalia, World News, Africa

Sinn Fein Newsroom

Israeli attack on peace activist boat unacceptable

Sinn FA©in Councillor Gerry MacLochlainn who has just returned from Gaza has described the Israeli government's decision to board and hijack a peace boat en-route to Gaza carrying medical aid as contemptible.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Activism

Thu Jul 02, 2009

Yemen Observer

Yemeni court probes 22 pirates over piracy charges

Al-Mina primary court in Aden city began on Wednesday started trailing 22 Somali pirates on charge of involving in piracy acts against ships crossing the Gulf of Aden's international waters.

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Related Topix: World News, Yemen, Middle East, Boat Disaster

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Stavridis takes helm as top commander at NATO; says Taliban can be defeated

NATO 's new commander said Thursday that the situation in Afghanistan remains "very challenging," but that the Taliban and other insurgents can be defeated.

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Related Topix: World News, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), Asia, Afghanistan, US Military, US Navy, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

Boston.com

Ethiopia dismisses Somali threat, violence flares

Ethiopia Wednesday dismissed a threat of invasion from Somalia's hardline Islamist insurgents saying the rebels posed no clear and present danger.

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Related Topix: World News, Ethiopia, Africa, Somalia

Online Journal

Pirates of the Mediterranean

On June 30, the government of Israel committed an act of piracy when the Israeli Navy, in international waters, illegally boarded the 'Spirit of Humanity,' kidnapped its 21-person crew from 11 countries, including former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and Nobel Laureate Mairead MaGuire , and confiscated the cargo of medical supplies, olive ...

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, US Military, US Navy,

Wed Jul 01, 2009

Independent Online

Japan sends warships to Gulf of Aden

Tokyo - Japan has said it would dispatch two destroyers to an anti-piracy mission off Somalia in July with expanded rules of engagement including scope for greater use of force.

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Related Topix: Japan, World News

ClipSyndicate

VIDEO: Piracy Mediators Increase Ransom

Mediators who try to broker deals between ship owners and pirates caused ransom payments to go up.

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Related Topix: Video, Business News

Independent Online

Somali accused of hiking property prices

By Abdiaziz Hassan Nairobi - The bustling Eastleigh suburb in Kenya's capital Nairobi has been the hub of business for Kenyan-Somalis and thousands of refugees escaping civil war in neighbouring Somalia for decades.

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Related Topix: World News, Kenya, Africa, Somalia

Tue Jun 30, 2009

KAAL

Elected Somali Leader to Speak in Mpls.

The president of a semi-autonomous region of northern Somalia is speaking to a crowd of his fellow Somalis in Minneapolis.

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NewsBlaze

Arab States Set Up an Anti-Pirate League

A consortium of Arab states have set up a joint anti-piracy naval force to prevent the spread of piracy from the Gulf of Aden into the Red Sea and Gulf.

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Related Topix: World News, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, United Arab Emirates, Terrorism

SFGate

Somalia: poverty and plight

As a native son of Eyl, the historic hamlet that is now notorious as the hub for Somali piracy, and as a Somali who has sought refuge in the United States from the anarchy that is Somalia, I am deeply bothered and conflicted by the Somali pirates.

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Related Topix: Travel, Somalia Travel, Somalia, World News, Africa, Prison, Opinion

Mon Jun 29, 2009

Fox News

Somali Extremists Threaten Violent Reponse to U.S. Arms

A radical Islamic group in Somalia has threatened to seize weapons and ammunition the U.S. has supplied to the nation's embattled government.

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Related Topix: Somalia, Africa, World News, Terrorism

State Department

Background Briefing on U.S. Assistance to the Somalia Transitional Federal Government

SENIOR STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL: Thank you all very much for coming this afternoon.

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Related Topix: Somalia, World News, Africa, Kenya,

Deseret News

NATO flotilla takes over patrols

NATO has replaced the flotilla conducting anti-piracy patrols off Somalia for the past three months with a new force that will continue the operation "indefinitely," a spokesman said Monday.

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Related Topix: NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), World News

SanLuisObispo.com

Analysis: Obama scores major victory on climate

Facing a rare defeat, President Barack Obama put a big dose of political capital on the line and scored a major victory just when he needed one.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Al Gore, Drugs

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