U.S. warship chasing pirates off Somalia
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A U.S. Navy destroyer is searching waters off Somalia hunting for pirates who hijacked a Japanese-owned ship, military officials said.
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The US captain of a boat seized by a Spanish warship in a row over shipwreck treasure is released.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Islamist battlewagons moved   closer to the strategic Somali port of Kismayo, local officials   said on Friday, but Islamists denied any attempt to seize the   city and expand their territorial gains in the south.
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Somali Islamists, who are in charge of the capital and other key areas, are becoming more radical and under growing control from an al Qaeda cell in East Africa, the top U.S. diplomat for Africa said on Thursday.
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The State Department has hired a major military contractor to help equip and provide logistical support to international peacekeepers in Somalia, giving the United States a significant role in the critical mission without assigning combat forces.
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Aircraft from the Coast Guard and the Alaska Air National Guard made their way toward an Asian cargo ship taking on water south of the Aleutian Islands on Monday in an attempt to rescue its 22 crew members.
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The U.S. Navy has fired on Somali pirates who hijacked the Russian crew and British captain of a ship sailing off the Horn of Africa, a maritime official said on Tuesday.
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Crew members on a tugboat seized by pirates off the Somali coast are unharmed and have access to food and water, the ship's Danish owner said Wednesday.
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A U.S. warship pounded Somalia's remote coastal northeast, targeting Islamic militants hours after a gunbattle with Somali government forces that left eight insurgents dead, officials said Saturday.
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KISMAYU, Somalia  - Ethiopian soldiers paraded on Tuesday a wounded senior cleric captured in south Somalia during the pursuit of remnants of an Islamist movement ousted from Mogadishu in a war over the New Year.
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Pirates hijacked a cargo ship delivering U.N. food aid to northeastern Somalia on Sunday &#151; at least the third time since 2005 that a vessel contracted to the United Nations has been hijacked off the country's dangerous coast.
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Somalia's Islamic militia invited U.S. government leaders on Thursday to visit the capital, Mogadishu, the city where 18 U.S. troops on a peacekeeping mission to the East African nation were killed in 1993.
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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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Somali pirates have hijacked a  Japanese-owned chemical tanker in the latest such seizure in  the Horn of Africa nation's notoriously lawless waters, a  regional maritime official and a piracy watchdog said on  Monday.
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Somali Islamists are under the growing control of an al Qaeda cell in East Africa, a U.S. diplomat said on Thursday, as Washington condemned their threat to attack Ethiopian troops backing Somalia's interim government.
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Somali pirates have captured a South Korean cargo vessel off Mogadishu port in the latest seizure in one of the world's most dangerous waterways, a regional maritime official said on Tuesday.
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Navy considers sending remote-controlled boats to challenge pirates.