U.S. warship heads for vessel hijacked off Somalia
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A U.S. warship is approaching the area off the Horn of Africa where Somali pirates have anchored a hijacked ship chartered to carry U.N. food aid, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Monday.
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Pirates hijacked a cargo ship delivering U.N. food aid to northeastern Somalia on Sunday &#151; at least the second time in recent years that a vessel contracted to the United Nations has been hijacked off the country's dangerous coast.
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The Coast Guard and the Alaska Air National Guard were sending aircraft Monday to rescue 22 crew members aboard an Asian cargo ship taking on water south of the Aleutian Islands.
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With the weather improving Sunday, the Coast Guard planned for a helicopter to lower a salvage team to a soybean freighter that broke in two off Alaska's coast &#151; a key step toward cleaning up a destructive, oily mess stretching for miles from the vessel.
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A US warship is moving into position to try to shoot down an out-of-control US spy satellite as early as Wednesday before it tumbles into the Earth's atmosphere, Pentagon officials said Tuesday.
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The U.S. Navy will likely attempt to shoot down a faulty spy satellite on Thursday, the day after the space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to land, two officials told CNN today. The Navy plans to fire a missile at the satellite as it enters Earth's atmosphere.
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One of the biggest U.S. military disaster relief missions in history kicked into high gear Saturday as an aircraft carrier battle group arrived off the shores of tsunami-battered Sumatra and began launching helicopters laden with supplies.
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BOSSASSO, Somalia  - A U.S. warship attacked a suspected al Qaeda target in northern Somalia on Friday, CNN reported, and residents said missiles pounded an area where foreign jihadists have clashed with local forces.
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Pirates hijack a ship off the coast of Somalia, in the latest of a series of similar incidents in the area.
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The British-built Canadian submarine HMCS Chicoutimi, crippled since a fire at sea that killed one of its crew, was under tow, headed for Scotland where it was likely to arrive early next week.
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A fresh attempt to rescue an injured ship's captain is under way, after being abandoned in "extreme" conditions.
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BOSSASSO, Somalia  - A U.S. warship attacked a suspected al Qaeda target in northern Somalia, CNN reported, and residents said on Saturday missiles had pounded hills where foreign jihadists fled after clashing with locals.
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An air-sea rescue was under way in the North Atlantic last night after a fire on a former British submarine sold to Canada in a controversial deal left the vessel drifting at sea.
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The U.S. military has video and audio recordings of Iranian high-speed boats that threatened to blow up a three-ship U.S. convoy in the Persian Gulf and plans to release them, the top U.S. Navy commander in the Mideast said Tuesday.
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Militiamen loyal to the fundamentalist Islamic group that appears determined to rule Somalia are advancing on one of the last remaining commercial ports outside of their control, an official said Wednesday.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska A salvage team has reached a wrecked freighter in the Bering Sea off Alaska&#39;s coast. For days, the Coast Guard has been trying to get people on the ship, which has broken in two and is oozing oil, diesel fuel and soybeans.
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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.