Fatal attacks by pirates surge in 2004: watchdog
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The number of seafarers killed by pirates surged last year, even though the overall incidence of armed robbery on the high seas fell, an international watchdog said in its annual report out Monday.
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Somali pirates captured another foreign cargo vessel off Mogadishu port and seized its crew in the second attack since the weekend along one of the world's most dangerous waterways, a maritime official said on Tuesday.
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Three Somali police speedboats and a U.S. military vessel were headed Monday toward a U.N.-chartered cargo ship hijacked by pirates, a senior police official said. Piracy has been rampant off the Somali coast.
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A state media report says Chinese law enforcement nabbed and destroyed millions of pirated software discs, CDs and DVDs in a campaign against intellectual property theft.
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Dominica may have been doing better when it was overrun by   pirates.
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The Indian Ocean region starts to assess the damage wrought by sea surges that killed about 23,000 people.
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How a massive earthquake in the Indian Ocean triggered sea surges and the deaths of thousands of people.
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Authorities have seized nearly 5 million pirated discs and arrested 870 people in a two-month anti-piracy operation in about a dozen Asia-Pacific nations.
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The overall number of ships attacked by seaborne criminals rose, but there were signs of progress, even in Somalia's lawless waters.
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The number of cyber attacks on Windows operating system rose by 400pc between January June of this year, computer security company Symantec said today.
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Triads are fuelling a trade that has seen a surge in violence in the aready crime-riddled Cape, writes Sam Kiley.
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The death toll from massive tidal waves that struck Sri Lanka&#39;s coastline leapt to more than 12,000 on Monday as thousands of soldiers and families kept up the search for bodies.
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Saturday&#39;s fatal explosions in Bangladesh appear to be part of a rising trend of bomb blasts over the past five years, which have left more than 100 people dead.
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The confirmed death toll in the massive earthquake and tidal waves that slammed Indian Ocean shorelines last weekend passed 125,000, amid warnings that it could jump much higher.
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A round-up of the death tolls and state of affairs in countries hit by the 26 December earthquake and tsunami.
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Utilities, telecommunications companies and government agencies are more popular as targets at attacks on them surged 55 per cent from July to August, a new report says.
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BSA gives its definition of 'success' The BSA claims its month-long campaign to clamp down on software piracy in Glasgow is a âmajor successâ â despite uncovering just 41 potential pirates after haranguing thousands of businesses by letter.â¦