Somali pirates said Thursday they had freed a Ukrainian ship, seized in September with battle tanks and other weaponry on board, after receiving a ransom of more than three million dollars. The vessel's freedom was announced by the Ukrainian presidency and several pirates contacted by AFP but not by the ship's owners. The reported release of the ship ...

The body of a Somali pirate who drowned just after receiving a huge ransom washed onshore with $153,000 in cash, a resident said Sunday, as the spokesman for another group of pirates promised to soon free a Ukrainian arms ship. Five pirates drowned ...

Somali pirates said Sunday that a deal for the release of an arms-laden Ukrainian cargo ship that they seized more than two months ago has been reached and that the release was expected within days. "It is just a matter of time and a few technicalities before the ship recovers its freedom," Sugule Ali, the spokesman for the group of ...

Food and water are running low on the Ukrainian arms ship hijacked by Somali pirates, and a pirate spokesman warned Thursday if the ship was attacked by NATO forces its 20-man crew would be among those killed. Spokesman Sugule Ali also mocked comments by Tomex Team, the firm operating the MV Faina cargo ship, which said it has accumulated only ...