A hijacked Saudi super-tanker, carrying 100 million dollars of oil, anchored Tuesday off a notorious Somali pirate port as sea gangs struck again and seized a Hong Kong cargo ship. The biggest act of piracy yet by the marauding Somali bandits has stunned the international community. The Saudi Arabian foreign minister called piracy a growing "disease" and experts said few ...

A Hong Kong-registered cargo ship was hijacked on Tuesday by pirates off the coast of Yemen and was believed to be heading for Somalia, government and military officials said. The cargo ship Delight was carrying 25 crew members and 36,000 tonnes of wheat when it was attacked on Tuesday afternoon in the Gulf of Aden as it headed ...

A US Navy security team fired shots to warn off two small boats approaching a navy supply ship off the coast of Somalia, a spokesman said Wednesday. "There were no reports of casualties," said Lieutenant Nathan Christensen, a spokesman for the Bahrain-based US Fifth Fleet. Christensen said the shots were fired by a security team embarked on USNS John ...