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Tuesday, 10 August 2010 11:13 |
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LONDON - Britain is blocking a move to place two alleged Somali pirate commanders on a U.N. sanctions list, fearing it could hurt the British shipping industry, officials said on Monday.
Britain has asked for a "technical hold" to be placed on a U.S. proposal to add Abshir Abdillahi and Mohamed Abdi Garaad to the list of people subject to sanctions under U.N. Security Council Resolution 1844, Britain's Foreign Office said.
The "technical hold", requested in April and in effect indefinitely, gives the British government time to look into the legal implications of implementing the measures.
Security Council Resolution 1844 imposes a travel ban and an asset freeze on people who "engage in or provide support for acts that threaten the peace, security or stability of Somalia".
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Monday, 09 August 2010 11:02 |
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NAIROBI, Kenya — NATO says a helicopter from a U.S. warship has interrupted a pirate attack off the coast of Somalia.
NATO says the merchant ship Ice Explorer was moving through the Gulf of Aden early Monday when it called in a pirate attack.
A helicopter from the USS Kauffman flew to the scene and saw pirates dumping weapons and other objects into the water. A boarding team confiscated some pirate paraphernalia.
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Sunday, 08 August 2010 11:53 |
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Pirates have abandoned a sugar cargo ship a day after seizing it in the Gulf of Aden, the EU naval task force operating off Somalia says.
Two members of the 18,838-tonne Syria Star's crew of 22 Syrians and two Egyptians were injured during the hijacking.
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Tuesday, 03 August 2010 19:43 |
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MOGADISHU/RIYADH - Somali pirates and the owners of a Saudi ship held since March with 14 crew said on Tuesday they had agreed to a ransom of around $2-3 million, and a newspaper withdrew a report that the ransom was $20 million.
"We (pirates) and the owners of the Saudi ship had agreed on $3 million not $20 million," Said, a Somali pirate on the captured Saudi ship al-Nisr, told Reuters by telephone.
"$20 million was our initial demand but not the final amount agreed upon, and the ship is not worth $20 million ransom when you consider its capacity."
The Arab News newspaper on Monday said a $20 million ransom from insurers had been approved by Saudi Arabia's central bank.
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Monday, 24 May 2010 16:46 |
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A U.S. destroyer is shadowing a ship off the coast of Somalia after it was taken over by 50 pirates, authorities said.
The M/V Iceberg was identified last week after the USS McFaul conducted a 36-hour surveillance mission, the multi-national Combined Maritime Forces said in a statement. The USS McFaul began shadowing the Panamanian-flagged vessel May 19 before the M/V Iceberg reversed course and began heading toward the Somali coast.
"We cannot be sure what the pirates' plan was if they had not been interrupted," said Rear Adm. Beom Rim Lee, commander of the Combined Maritime Forces task force.
"The vessel may have been on its way to either assist other pirates in distress, or look for another merchant vessel to attack," he said.
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Tuesday, 18 May 2010 09:34 |
Catherine Ashton wants a more unified approach to tackle piracy
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The EU's top diplomat is to visit East Africa at the start of a tour aimed at curbing piracy off Somalia's coast.
The EU High Representative, Catherine Ashton, has said she wants to encourage a regional approach to the problem.
In Nairobi, she will be confronted by Kenyan leaders fed up with carrying what they say has been the burden of responsibility for dealing with piracy.
Kenya has agreed to prosecute pirates caught at sea by the EU force - the only nation in the region to do so.
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