The European Union is considering expanding its anti-piracy operations to the Indian Ocean, bloc officials said Monday as they released figures showing that its Atalanta mission off the coast of Somalia has already led to the arrest of 52 suspects.
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The Somali Government reached an agreement with the DAMEN shipyards group,Netherlands in a recent meeting between members from the Somali government and DAMEN shipyards group of Roterdam, Netherlands.
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The Canadian frigate HMCS Winnipeg likely deterred a Somali pirate attack against the Maltese cargo ship MV Sea Pride in the Gulf of Aden on the weekend, NATO said Monday.
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Inbound travel declined 1.0% to 2.2 million trips while Canadian trips abroad decreased by 0.7% to 3.9 million. United States residents made 1.0 million overnight trips to Canada in March, down 0.6%.
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I can see migrants are the source of many problems," says Maria Nafpliotou, an employee at a music store in the city centre. "Nobody is happy to see them living around here, but I doubt slaying them is a solution."
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A new tool by Google reveals how Africans use the Internet. Not being a surprise, "sex" is one of the most searched words in the Internet, but it may come as an embarrassment to many Muslim countries that their citizens are the world's most frequent digital sex searchers; in particular North Africans.
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The U.N. Security Council has not ruled out the idea of a U.N. peacekeeping force for Somalia, a top envoy said Saturday after meeting with African Union officials to discuss problems in Somalia and Sudan. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has come out against such a force, but the fierce fighting that has ravaged Mogadishu, the Somali capital, in the last few days appeared to weigh on the diplomats' minds.
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Tanzania and Kenya have pledged to start joint naval operations off the East African Indian Ocean coast, to tame rising cases of piracy in the area. Zanzibar President Amani Abeid Karume and the visiting Kenyan Vice- President, Kalonzo Musyoka, yesterday expressed concern over the upheaval caused by pirates in the area.
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Will GPS Wear Itself Out? asks William Matthews and reports that experts say already the system will be less reliable if older satellites fail. Four F/A-18 Super Hornets hurtled off the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Arabian Sea and sped north toward Afghanistan on April 26 to drop 500-pound GPS-guided bombs on dug-in Taliban machine gunners.
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According to Joe Borg, the European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, the rapid spread of piracy eastwards from Africa may soon affect Australian interests and Australia may need to join forces with the European Union to combat piracy in the Indian Ocean if Somali pirates continue to expand their area of attacks.
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