Suspected pirates attack Italian ship: group
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Suspected Somali pirates attacked an Italian-owned cargo ship on Monday as it headed for Kenya's Mombasa port through one of the world's most dangerous waterways, a regional maritime group said.
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Pirate attacks have increased sharply, especially in Somalia and Nigeria, an international maritime watchdog agency said Thursday.
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Spanish Civil Guards on Thursday heightened a battle over a $500 million treasure of gold and silver coins from a shipwreck when they seized a vessel belonging to a Tampa, Fla.,-based company.
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Police have arrested scores of people in a crackdown on organized crime in southern Italy, including on clans that had a grip on the local tourist industry, authorities said Tuesday.
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Italian and British police arrested nine suspected members of a North African Islamic militant group linked to al Qaeda, which had the potential to strike targets in Europe, Italian police said on Thursday.
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Gunmen in speedboats attacked an oil vessel off the coast of Nigeria at dawn Friday and kidnapped six workers, Italian energy giant Eni SpA said.
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Pirates have seized a Danish-owned tug boat and its six crew members off Somalia's northeastern coast and are demanding ransom, officials said Monday.
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American and Italian authorities arrested dozens of people Thursday in a takedown of what they called a trans-Atlantic drug trafficking operation run by the Mafia.
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At least one person has been killed and four foreigners were kidnapped during an attack by armed assailants against an oil installation belonging to Italian company Agip in southern Nigeria.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen in speed boats kidnapped several workers including a number of foreigners in a raid on an Italian oil production vessel off the Nigerian coast on Wednesday, industry and security sources said.
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A suspected Eta terrorist arrested by Spanish police could have been targeting a ferry carrying British holidaymakers, it has emerged.
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The crew of a ship hijacked from Somalia overpowered their attackers Tuesday and regained control of the vessel
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Armed men in olive green uniforms stormed the Baghdad office of an Italian aid group yesterday and seized two Italian women and two Iraqis, witnesses said.
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Italian police said on Monday they had  smashed an Algerian fundamentalist Islamist cell that gave  logistical support to suspected militants in Algeria.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Gunmen in speed boats kidnapped seven foreign oil workers in a raid on an Italian oil production vessel off the Nigerian coast on Wednesday, authorities said.
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Italian police involved in a violent raid against anti-globalisation protesters at a Genoa school in 2001 are to face trial.
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At least 10 people were killed and some 40 were missing after a boat crammed with African illegal immigrants sank off southern Italy, sparking a search for survivors.