The South Korean destroyer ROKS Munmu the Great and the US-American cruiser USS Gettysburg launched helicopters in response to a distress call on Wednesday from the MV AMIRA in the Gulf of Aden, a US- Navy statement said.
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Tuvalu’s Transport Minister is seeking the support of other countries in the Pacific to put pressure on the Government of Somalia to release twelve Tuvaluan sailors being held hostage by pirates, Radio New Zealand Intl. reports.
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Five passengers survived and 10 died in a tragic boat accident off Southern Somalia. Yesterday's accident of a dhow - a small wooden sailing boat belonging to Somali businessman Ahmed Rashid -, which was used as ferry to carry people and goods from Kismayo to Bur Gavo, caused the death of eight women and two children, coastguards and authorities from the local government confirmed.
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Youth aged 15 to 24 held nearly 40% of all employee jobs in the tourism industries in 2007, twice their share in the economy overall, while women held 56%.
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The United States has been elected to a seat on the UN Human Rights Council for the first time. The council had been shunned by the Bush administration, which accused it of admitting states with poor rights records and having an anti-Israel bias. But the Obama administration has reversed its predecessor's policy of boycotting the Geneva-based body.
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The U.S. Coast Guard will require U.S.-flagged ships sailing around the Horn of Africa to post armed guards and ship owners to submit anti-piracy security plans for approval, a Coast Guard official said on Tuesday.
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Sales of new motor vehicles rose 6.3% in March to 122,194 units. It was the largest monthly growth since January 2008. This increase was mainly due to higher sales of trucks.
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Police services in Canada reported 785 crimes that were motivated by hate in 2007, down from 892 in 2006. Race or ethnicity continues to be the most common motivation for reported hate crimes.
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The rate of police-reported drug offences has generally been increasing since the early 1990s and, in 2007, reached its highest point in 30 years.
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A Russian oil tanker was attacked by pirates in the Gulf of Aden today on Sunday but managed to escape with no casualties or damage, a Russian shipping company said. The Liberia-flagged tanker, the NS SPIRIT, with a 22-member Russian crew, was sailing from South-East Asia to a Persian Gulf port with 36,000 tons of gasoline on its board.
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