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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A man convicted of robbery by a court in Somalia’s Islamist strong hold port-town of Kismayo had his right hand cut off. Mohamed Omar Ismael stole $90 from a saving account, local reports said.
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The French navy on Friday handed over 11 suspected Somali pirates to Kenya for a judicial investigation and possible trial in the second such transfer by the French forces in weeks, police said.
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A Spanish judge today ordered seven of the 14 pirate suspects arrested in the Gulf of Aden to be freed.
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Employment grew by 36,000 in April, the result of an increase in self-employment. Despite this increase, overall employment has fallen by 321,000 since the peak in October 2008.
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Somali pirates sea-jacked the Netherlands Antilles-flagged MV MARATHON, a Dutch ship with a crew of eight Ukrainian sailors on board, in the Gulf of Aden on Thursday, a regional maritime group said and the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry confirmed the report as well as the ship's owner-manager, Cargadoor Amons & Co. and ISM manager Marathon.
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