The Philippine president offered her country’s help in training the Somali coast guard, saying Tuesday she fears another surge in pirate attacks off Somalia that have targeted ships with hundreds of Filipino crew.
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A ceremony to donate military material which will be Cyprus` contribution to the EU initiative to train members of the security forces of the Somali Transitional Federal Government was held on Monday, at the Army Recruitment Centre in Limassol.
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Pirates have attacked a Bahraini dhow on its way back from the UAE, raising fears that a problem usually associated with waters off Somalia has now moved to the Arabian Gulf, the local Gulf Daily News reported on Tuesday.
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While it has been proven over and over again that the figure of usd 150mio allegedly earned by Somali pirates in 2008, which was claimed by the Kenyan foreign minister at a UN sponsored conference last year, is simply false, it is here to stay, since spindoctors now try to claim it for a changed period.
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The Ukrainian crew of a cargo ship hijacked by pirates off Somalia have reportedly pleaded for speedy negotiations for their release after three months in captivity.
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U.S. military specialists are starting on Tuesday a new training course for Georgian troops set to join an international peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, the Georgian Defense Ministry said according to RIA Novosti.
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by Luca Bonsignore
Saudi Arabia is close to buying Russian arms and military equipment worth some $2 billion (€1.4 billion), a Russian defence industry source confirmed, as quoted by Interfax on Saturday.
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A video grab from French TV channel LCI shows a French intelligence agent who was kidnapped last month by hardline Islamists in Somalia, being helped out of a car after he escaped from his captors in Mogadishu.
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The French intelligence agent who escaped his Somali captors has been transferred to neighbouring Djibouti, from where he is to travel back home, a French government official said Thursday.
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More Iranian warships are to be sent to the Gulf of Aden, to protect the fifth-largest crude exporter's oil tankers from pirate attacks.
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