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NAIROBI, Kenya _ The EU Naval Force says a suspected pirate skiff approached the American ship Maersk Alabama but turned back after a security team onboard fired warning shots.
HOUSTON (AP) âÄî A member of the crew on the U.S.-flagged ship hijacked by African pirates sued the owner and another company Monday, accusing them of knowingly putting sailors in danger. Richard E.
As a freed U.S.-flagged freighter cruised out of Somalia's crime-infested waters Thursday, a tense standoff continued for a second day between a U.S. warship and a tiny lifeboat, adrift with four ...
The hijacking of the Maersk Alabama on April 8, 2009, however, focused attention on the growing war with pirates for the way the largely American crew foiled their attempts to take control of the ...
MOMBASA, Kenya, April 13 -- Gunmen fired mortars at a plane carrying a U.S. congressman Monday as he departed the Somali capital, and President Obama, speaking later in Washington, vowed to work ...
NAIROBI, Kenya - Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama today for the second time in seven months, though private guards on board the U.S.-flagged ship repelled the attack with gunfire ...
NAIROBI, Kenya — Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama on Wednesday for the second time in seven months, though private guards on board the U.S.-flagged ship repelled the attack with ...
* U.S. navy destroyer on scene * FBI joins efforts to free American captain * U.S.-flagged ship heads to Kenya after brief hijack (Updates with comments from Biden, Holder, WFP official) By Abdi ...
Pirates have gas on lifeboat, fire shots at U.S. Navy sailors. April 11, 2009 — -- The captain of a U.S.-flagged ship held hostage by armed pirates on a lifeboat in the Indian Ocean appears ...
Somali pirates defied international naval powers on Thursday to keep an American ship captain hostage on a lifeboat in the Indian Ocean after their first seizure of U.S. citizens.