SOMALI PIRATES

Pirates based on the coast of northern Somalia hijacked a Greek-owned oil tanker in the Arabian Sea with a crew of 15, mostly Indians and Filipinos.

The European Union approved attacks against land-based targets in Somalia on Friday as part of its effort to combat piracy off the Horn of Africa.

A British tourist, who was freed on Wednesday by Somali pirates after enduring six months of captivity, was unaware of the death of her husband for weeks after she was taken in captivity during a raid on a beach resort on the Kenyan Coast.

After six months held hostage by Somali pirates, British women has been released and prepares for her return home.

Somali pirates freed the U.K. woman they held hostage for more than six months on Wednesday. Somali gunmen had killed British publishing executive David Tebbutt and abducted his wife Judith Tebbutt in a raid at a luxury beach resort in neighboring Kenya last September.

Many of the Costa Allegra passengers who disembarked on the island of Mahé on Thursday morning will extend their vacation, and are hoping that two weeks on land on a tropical island will be incident-free.

The Costa Allegra fire -- which has stranded 1,000 in the Indian Ocean near Seychelles -- threatens to hurt a cruise ship industry that is already suffering from the Costa Concordia catastrophe.

Two hostages were killed by Somali pirates during a rescue operation off of the coast of the Horn of Africa on Tuesday.

Just one month after Costa Concordia smashed into a reef and capsized, the Italian cruise company, Costa Crociere SpA faces a new emergency with Cruise Line Allegra stranded without power in pirate infested waters.

The Costa Allegra cruise ship has been reached by the French fishing ship Travignon is being towed the Allegra toward the Seychelles' main islands.

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The all-Indian crew of a chemical oil tanker that was hijacked by Somali pirates in August last year has been released, alongwith the ship, Indian authorities said.

The Iranian ship’s engine room was flooded and the vessel was deemed not seaworthy.

The drama unfolded about 210 miles south of Iran’s coast.

The Navy rescued Iranian fishermen being held hostage by suspected Somali pirates for more than 40 days in the Gulf of Oman, U.S. officials said.

The pirates were identified as Somalis who commandeered the boat 40 days ago.

Two women, Marissa Gaeta and Citlalic Snell, made history yesterday as the first gay couple to get the first kiss, a Navy homecoming tradition where a sailor is chosen to be the first to greet his or her loved one. Their kiss is an LGBT victory after the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and Navy officials say it's the first time a gay couple has ever participated in the tradition.

Cooperation between Somalia's al Qaeda linked militants and pirate gangs is growing as the al Shabaab group becomes more desperate for funding, the head of the U.N.'s counter-piracy unit said on Thursday.

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The African Development Bank (AfDB) on Wednesday applauded Uganda's four percentage point interest rate hike aimed at taming rampant inflation and said the cycle of monetary tightening was expected to trim economic growth in 2011.

Tanzania has arrested seven suspected Somali pirates after an attack on an oil and gas exploration ship operated by Brazilian petroleum company Petrobras off the coast of the east African country.