NAIROBI - Somali pirates hijacked a Chinese bulk carrier Monday northeast of the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean, as the marauding sea bandits hunted their prey ever further from base to wrong-foot naval patrols. According to the European Union's an
PARIS - French legislators are scheduled to vote Tuesday on a bill allowing authorities to cut off Internet access to people who illegally download. An earlier version of the bill was ruled unconstitutional. Legislators in the National Assembly deba
A Chinese court has jailed four people for spreading their bootleg “Tomato Garden” version of Microsoft’s Windows XP programme, in what the Xinhua news agency called the nation’s biggest software piracy case. Hong Lei, the creator of the downloadabl
MOSCOW - Russia has arrested eight people who hijacked the merchant ship Arctic Sea, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies on Tuesday. Serdyukov was quoted as saying that the hijackers of the ship, whose d
Recently, we've become used to the idea of modern-day piracy, as we hear more and more stories of gangs hijacking ships for ransom in the lawless East Africa waters. But the mysterious disappearance of a 4,000-ton cargo ship off the coast of England
Recently, we've become used to the idea of modern-day piracy, as we hear more and more stories of gangs hijacking ships for ransom in the lawless East Africa waters. But the mysterious disappearance of a 4,000-ton cargo ship off the coast of England
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