Pirates hijack German ship NAIROBI: A U.S. Navy spokesman says a German-owned ship has been hijacked in the pirate-infested waters between Somalia and Yemen. U.S. Navy 5th Fleet spokesman Lt. Nathan Christensen says pirates seized the cargo ship early Saturday in the Gulf of... Women 25 Apr, 2009
Ship fights off pirates' attack NAIROBI: Somali pirates attacked a Maltese flagged-ship before dawn Monday with rocket-propelled grenades, but the ship escaped unharmed, a NATO spokesman said. And in a rare case of good news, Somali pirates released a Lebanese-owned cargo ship after... Women 20 Apr, 2009
NATO thwarts pirate attack NAIROBI: A NATO spokesman says alliance warships and helicopters have foiled an attack on a Norwegian tanker by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden. Portuguese Lt. Cmdr. Alexandre Santos Fernandes says NATO interrogated, disarmed and released the... Women 19 Apr, 2009
NATO frees 20 hostages NAIROBI: NATO forces rescued 20 fishermen from pirates who launched the latest attack in the Gulf of Aden, but let the Somali hijackers go because they had no authority to arrest them. The release underscored the difficulties of stopping the... Women 19 Apr, 2009
THE WORLD OVER Obama’s tech chief WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama on Saturday chose two Indian-Americans to help to streamline the federal government and cut costs. Obama named Aneesh Chopra, the Harvard-educated secretary of technology for the state of... Women 18 Apr, 2009
US ship evades Somali pirate attack MOMBASA: Defiant Somali pirates fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons at another U.S. cargo ship on Tuesday but failed to hijack it, officials said, just days after Navy SEALs rescued an American hostage after an earlier unsuccessful...
