NATO on Monday launched operation Ocean Shield to help fight rampant piracy off the Horn of Africa after the alliance's North Atlantic Council approved the mission, it said in a statement.
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The Belgian Ministry of Defence issued an apology to the Spanish government after it was found that its sailors caused havoc in waters close to a popular holiday beach in northwest Spain.
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While a baffled European Commission spokesman could only refer to the story as stuff for a Hollywood movie, European Union maritime officials, who have remained sceptical of the possibility that "traditional piracy" could have taken place in this case said: "We have not seen piracy in the Baltic Sea since the 17th century and usually pirates need a safe haven close by to operate from, as is the case with piracy off the coast of Somalia, which is totally different."
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The high seas mystery over the freighter Arctic Sea was far from solved Monday after the Russian navy found the ship off West Africa, far from the Algerian port where it was supposed to dock two weeks ago.
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The trend of significant foreign investment in Canadian securities continued in June. Non-resident investors acquired $10.5 billion of Canadian securities with considerable investments in both federal government debt instruments and equities.
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Italian anti-terrorism police have interviewed a group of Italians hostages freed by Somali pirates. Ten Italians, five Romanians and a Croatian were travelling aboard the cargo ship Buccaneer in the Gulf of Aden when they were captured by pirates on 11 April.
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The European Commission expressed doubt on Friday over whether a merchant ship which has been missing for more than a week had fallen prey to pirates as the vessel’s operator had suggested.
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The French Defense Ministry says a Russian-manned cargo that vanished in the Atlantic last month has been found near Cape Verde.
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Yemen coast guard officials said Saturday that the two fishing vessels with 40 Egyptian fishermen who had reportedly managed to free themselves from their Somali captors was on its way to the Egypt's port city of Suez. The vessels had been arrested for illegal fishing on April 10.
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A German Navy helicopter thwarted a suspected pirate attack on a Turkish ship in the Gulf of Aden on Friday by firing warning shots at a speed boat as it approached the MS Elgiznur Cebi, the German armed forces said.
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