Nine seafarers have been kidnapped in a pirate attack on LPG carrier CGAS Saturn off the coast of Equatorial Guinea.

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Piracy hit a trough from the late nineteenth century into the late twentieth. That was because the industrialized nations waged a worldwide campaign against pirates. With no place to hide, pirates ...

When you picture a pirate, you probably think of Blackbeard or Captain Kidd or Anne Bonny, or some other swashbuckling rogue ...

This month, a massive commercial vessel was hijacked 620 nautical miles off the coast of Somalia. Formally flagged to Malta, the Hellas Aphrodite is a Greek-owned tanker that was carrying gasoline ...

Last week, a massive commercial vessel was hijacked 620 nautical miles off the coast of Somalia. Formally flagged to Malta, the Hellas Aphrodite is a Greek-owned tanker that was carrying ...

Elevated by prose that faithfully records the chaos, this is an honest and immersive survivor’s account of being taking ...

The ships, including USS Constitution, were created to fight "Algerine corsairs," also known as Barbary Pirates.

By Damian Flanagan If you ever take a ferry from Britain across the Irish Sea to the Irish capital, Dublin, you find yourself ...

Violence in Somalia has targeted United Arab Emirates/UAE military training activities in the capital of Mogadishu. Several foreign military trainers were killed. Al Shabab continues to carry out ...

International Business Machines Corporation ( IBM) Global Technology, Internet, Media & Telecommunications Conference 2025 November 19, 2025 10:00 AM EST Back day 2 of the RBC TIMT Conference, we are ...

Perched at the tip of Amelia Island, just a seashell’s throw from the Georgia border, Fernandina Beach offers a refreshing alternative to Florida’s theme park mania and high-rise beach scenes. This ...