After more than six months of fighting pirates and delivering humanitarian aid, HMCS Winnipeg is coming home.
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The Reliant Mermaid military exercise to be conducted by Turkey, Israel and the USA begins today. Though the press in Turkey slides around the matter, the exercise annoys all the countries in the region.
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Sweden assumes the presidency of the EU and will head the Union for the next six months *. With the presidency, Sweden is responsible for moving forward important EU issues and has already emphasised that defence policy issues will have a high priority. In view of the upcoming, challenging tasks, the Swedish government recently issued a factsheet describing the defence policy issues that are to be dealt with during its presidency.
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At a ceremony in the Red Sea onboard the EU NAVFOR Spanish warship Numancia Force Commander Captain (N) Juan Garat Caramé, handed over Command of the FHQ to Commodore Pieter Bindt of the Netherlands.
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The Louise-Marie, a Belgian marine frigate, is leaving the Port of Zeebruges on its way to the Horn of Africa. From 1 September until 13 December the warship will accompany cargo ships to protect them from pirates.
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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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