The coast of West Africa is one of the world's most notorious areas for piracy and kidnapping. And attacks in the area continue to rise year-on-year. To try to ...
SEOUL A South Korean cargo ship was boarded and attacked by pirates outside the Singapore Strait on Monday, government officials said. Armed with guns and oth...
Ten Turkish sailors have been taken hostage by armed pirates off the coast of Nigeria early on Tuesday, according to shipping company Kadioglu Denizcilik and Turkey's state media....
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Five Indian seafarers have been released after being kidnapped from the product tanker Apecus and taken to Bonny Island in Nigeria on April 19....
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DOCKED IN THE port of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, floats a colossal oil tanker. Two layers of razor wire snake around its deck. Two life-sized human du...
Police in New Caledonia are investigating an incident off Ouvea three days ago in which armed men confronted a luxury yacht with foreign tourists. Reports say several local men fired rifles and in scuffles injured some of the travellers who are from ...
Amid growing fears of a military clash between the United States and Iran, the strategic Strait of Hormuz has swiftly become one of the most dangerous regions o...
The seas off West Africa's oil-rich coastline are now the most dangerous in the world for shipping, according to a new report....
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The family of a Bideford ex-marine who died in Kenya has said it will never give up in its search for closure. An inquest in Exeter has heard how Benjamin Ryalls, aged 34, died after a night out in Kenya in July 2012....
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Anna Okon Following the increasing rate of piracy and hijacking of the crew for ransom in Nigerian waters, especially in the Gulf of Guinea, Indian Directorate ...
The Nigerian Navy said on Wednesday that an alleged piracy attack and abduction of sailors on a ship named MT Apecus on April 19, 2019 was stage managed by one ...
A crew sailing off the coast of Singapore had a close encounter with pirates late last week, according to a new report from ReCAAP, the south east Asian anti-piracy center. A tug-and-barge was heading westbound about five miles southwest-by-west off ...
DURBAN - On of the biggest semi-submersible ships in the world, Royal Boskalis Westminster NV’s Blue Marlin, was attacked by pirates just over a week ago. Blue ...
Indigenous oil firm, Belemaoil has confirmed the kidnap of five oil workers on its platform in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State....
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Three men accused of entering Alan Culverwell’s boat, which was anchored in islands off Panama’s Caribbean coast, and attacking family....
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On Sunday, two fishing vessels were attacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia. The attempted boardings were both thwarted, but security officials said that t...
The incident occurred at the Bonny Outer Anchorage on April 19, 2019, the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre said. Identified as the 3,100 dwt Apecus, the anchored tan...
A containership has reportedly come under fire from pirates off the coast of Ecuador as part of an attempt to board the unnamed vessel....
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Piracy attacks off Nigeria’s coast fell to 14 in the first quarter from 22 a year ago after the navy improved its response to incidents, the International Marit...
Four crewmembers have been kidnapped from a container ship off the coast of Cameroon in the latest piracy incident in the region. The vessel Contship Oak was at...
Armed pirates have kidnapped five crewmembers from a vessel off Nigeria and shot dead a member of the Nigerian Navy who was guarding the ship. The attack happened on 9 March around 30 nautical miles off Brass, Nigeria, according to the International ...
Pirates off Africa’s western coast attacked a Malta-registered tanker and kidnapped three of its crew members, Romanian media have reported....
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