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Asia Times
The jolly life of a pirate ring
By Asia Times Online staff | With a reported nine commercial ships hijacked over the past 12 days - including a spectacular strike on a Saudi Arabian oil supertanker - the world has become captivated ... (photo: US Navy / Aviation Warfare Systems Operator 2nd Class William S. Stevens)
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Taipei Times
Layoffs planned by NOL and Air New Zealand
| A global economic slowdown hit transport firms yesterday, forcing Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) to cut about 1,000 jobs and Air New Zealand to eliminate 200, the companies said. | Global container ship... (photo: Public Domain / Makaristos)
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The Australian
Navy destroys pirate 'mother ship'
| AN Indian warship destroyed a pirate "mother vessel" in the Gulf of Aden, the Indian navy said, as bandits demanded a ransom for a seized Saudi super-tanker. | The Indian frigate INS Tabar... (photo: Public Domain)
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Chicago Sun-Times
Indian navy sinks suspected pirate 'mother ship'
| NEW DELHI -- The Indian navy sank a suspected pirate ''mother ship'' and chased two attack boats into the night, officials said Wednesday, as the owners of a seized Sau... (photo: WN / BHASKAR MALLICK)
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Newsday
Indian warship destroys suspected pirate ship off Somalia
India says the military vessel opened fire after coming under attack and that some of the pirates escaped on high-speed rafts as their boat sank. | The Indian Navy ship T... (photo: AP / Iraqi Government)
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The Guardian
A western armada is not the way to sink Somalia's pirates
These fishermen-turned-hijackers are best tackled by local fleets - and by targeting poachers of the stock they used to catch | The seizure of the Saudi supertanker this ... (photo: US Navy / MCS2 Jason R. Zalasky)
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The Guardian
Plain sailing?
Traditional thinking on the sinking of the Mary Rose, Tudor England's best ship, is wrong | That the Mary Rose sank during the battle in the Solent on July 19 1545 there ... (photo: Creative Commons / Wollex)
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The Independent
Miliband urges pirates to release crew
| Foreign Secretary David Miliband called for the immediate release of the hijacked crew of a giant oil tanker - including two Britons - after the vessel anchored off the... (photo: AP / Hussein Malla)
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CNN
India: Pirate 'mother ship' left in flames
| (CNN) -- An Indian warship has exchanged fire with a pirate "mother vessel" off the hijacking-plagued Horn of Africa, leaving the ship ablaze in the Gulf of Aden, an of... (photo: US Navy / Cpl. Kevin McCall)
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The Columbus Dispatch
Ominous escalation
Somali pirates have perpetrated their most audacious heist to date by capturing a Saudi oil supertanker the length of an aircraft carrier. | They went farther out to sea ... (photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang)
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BBC News
India 'sinks Somali pirate ship'
| The Indian navy has said that one of its warships in the Gulf of Aden has destroyed a ship belonging to pirates operating off the coast of Somalia. | The INS Tabar open... (photo: AP / Indian Navy, HO, File)
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