In Denmark, Marstal Navigation School is setting up an anti piracy training scenario using the POLARIS Ship's Bridge Simulator. The objective of the course is to show the generic characteristics of piracy to give ship-owners, captains and crews tools for a tactical approach to sailing through piracy waters.
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Russia has called for an international mechanism to prosecute the pirates as power actions against them are ineffective.
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We agreed that, because of the destabilizing factors behind it and the broad regional and international impacts entailed, piracy must be addressed through coordinated efforts by the international community.
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Employment was little changed in June, leaving total net losses during the last three months at 13,000, much smaller than the 273,000 decline in the first three months of the year. The unemployment rate edged up 0.2 percentage points to 8.6% in June, as more people looked for work.
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Hindus have urged Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie to undertake the cause of apartheid of 15-million Roma people of Europe.
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The unrest that erupted in Urumqi on Sunday was the worst reported ethnic violence in China for decades as thousands of Muslim Uighurs, who have long harboured resentment under Chinese rule, took to the streets. Members of China's ethnic Han majority who were targeted in Sunday's riots fought back in Urumqi on Tuesday armed with makeshift weapons and vowing revenge against the Uighurs.
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Russia announced Wednesday it was sending more ships to the Gulf of Aden to protect merchant ships from Somali pirates. A third task force from Russia's Pacific Fleet will arrive in late July in the Gulf of Aden to ensure security in the pirate-infested waters, a Navy official said on Wednesday.
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today reiterated its request for an emergency international action to put an end to the assassinations of journalists in Somalia, after the murder of Mohamud Mohamed Yusuf of the Radio Holy Quran (IQK), who was killed on Saturday July 4 in central Mogadishu.
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L’Aquila, Italy – Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced that Canada is contributing to the rebuilding of L’Aquila and Italy’s surrounding Abruzzo region, which were devastated by a severe earthquake on April 6.
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The Iranian Navy has deployed two warships to join international efforts to preserve shipping security in the pirate-infested Gulf of Aden
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