MOGADISHU, Somalia – A Liberian-flagged Greek-owned ship and its crew of 21 Filipinos who were held hostage by pirates for eight months have been released following the payment of a $2.3 million ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A Liberian-flagged Greek-owned ship and its crew of 21 Filipinos who were held hostage by pirates for eight months have been released following the payment of a $2.3 million ...

NAIROBI, Kenya – NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The European Union's anti-piracy force says Somali pirates have hijacked a Greek-owned ship with 26 crew members in the Indian Ocean. The Liberian-flagged MV ...

ATHENS, Greece — Crewmen fired high-pressure water jets Friday to fight off heavily armed Somali pirates trying to board a Greek oil tanker in the dangerous Gulf of Aden, officials said. It was the ...

COTONOU, Benin (AP) — Pirates seized four crew members from a Greek-flagged ship off the coast of Togo on Monday while authorities in neighboring Benin searched for nine people who were kidnapped from ...

ATHENS, Greece — Crewmen fired high-pressure water jets Friday to fight off heavily armed Somali pirates trying to board a Greek oil tanker in the dangerous Gulf of Aden, officials said. It was the ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somali pirates have released the Greek-owned bulk carrier Free Goddess and its 21 Filipino crew members after holding the vessel for more than eight months, the secretary general ...

ATHENS, GreeceATHENS, Greece — Greece says pirates have freed a Greek-owned oil tanker seized off the coast of Togo in West Africa, and all 24 crew members are in good health. The Merchant Marine ...

LOME, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Pirates attacked a Greek oil tanker off the coast of Togo on Monday and fled after taking four crew members as hostages, the West African nation's navy and Greek authorities ...

Pirates traded gunfire with Togo security forces early Tuesday from a hijacked oil tanker off the west coast of Africa, the International Maritime Bureau said. “Apparently there was an exchange of ...

Author Shelley Dark retraces the real-life adventure of Ghikas Voulgaris—pirate, convict, lover—and restores a forgotten ...