The pirate "mothership" to which the sea-jacked vehicle carrier ASIAN GLORY was commandeered to during recent days has been identified as the MSV FAIZ OSAMANI (aka MSV FAIZE E OSMANI), an Indian-flagged cargo vessel, which had been captured by five Somali pirates 150 nm east of Socotra Island as we reported on January 28, 2010.
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"The last pirate left at around 22h00 local time (19h00 UTC) and the vessel is supposed to sail free," one of ECOTERRA's marine observers reported a short while ago.
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BEIJING - China on Saturday decided to suspend scheduled visits between the Chinese and U.S. armed forces, in response to Washington's plan to sell a package of arms worth about 6.4 billion U.S. dollars to Taiwan.
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McMinnville, Ore. - Evergreen’s long history of providing humanitarian relief continued this week with its donated missions to survey rural orphanages in Haiti employing Elbit Systems' Skylark® I LE Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.
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Ottawa (Canada) — The Index of Consumer Confidence rose 13.8 percentage points in January to a 23-month high, according to the Conference Board of Canada.
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Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika has succeeded Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi as the new chairman of the African Union (AU).
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Somali pirates have commandeered the sea-jacked vehicle carrier VC Asian Glory from the holding area off Hobyo towards the Seychelles in order to refuel one of the pirate mother-ships, which has run out of fuel.
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MV AL MAJAN started burning Friday and went under Sunday inside Somalia's main port. A cargo ship smuggling illegal charcoal from Kisimayo to Oman has caught fire, burned out and went partly under.
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“I believe the Canadian system generally does two things that should guide future work in this area. First, we must promote national regulation sufficiently strong to avoid repetition of the kind of crisis we experienced last year. We also believe that such national systems should be subject to international peer review in order to enhance transparency and reduce risks to the global economy. Anything less would expose every economy to needless risk. In fact, if inadequate regulation is not addressed, I believe the consequences could actually be worse than before this crisis”. Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper.
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Non-farm payroll employment fell by 33,800 in November, the result of small losses across a large number of industries. This decline followed two consecutive months of increases.
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