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Nigeria – another piracy kidnapping

Source: Photo: MarineTraffic.com/Hans Fairhurst Another brazen attack off Nigeria as pirates board and kidnap two crew members from a containership underway. The ship has been identified as the Liberian-flagged CMA CGM Turquoise, a 4,360 TEU containership…


Yemen – U.S. Seizes Weapons at Sea

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/05/world/middleeast/yemen-us-seizes-weapons-at-sea.html American Navy ships in the Arabian Sea intercepted and seized an arms shipment from Iran likely bound for Houthi rebels in Yemen, the military said in a statement on Monday. The weapons seized last…


Piracy Report 2020

Piracy: What’s next?

Source: https://gcaptain.com/whats-next-for-piracy Written by Joshua Nash, SafeGuard Armor The threat of Piracy is a serious one for many countries, and one that has been taken increasingly seriously. From Government response to media attention, anti-Piracy efforts have…



A terrorist group’s plot to create a radioactive ‘dirty bomb’

Source: http://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/02/29/19376/terrorist-group-s-plot-create-radioactive-dirty-bomb A small video camera stashed in a row of bushes silently recorded the comings and goings of the family of a Brussels-area man with an important scientific pedigree last year, producing a detailed chronology…



Mexico: Stolen pickup in Mexico had radioactive material aboard

source: bigstory.ap.org/article/13422c26c23e47cc90c81f2d16767b55/stolen-pickup-mexico-had-radioactive-material-aboard MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities have issued an alert after thieves stole a pickup truck with radioactive material aboard. The Interior Department said late Sunday the stolen material was iridium-192 and distributed a…


Oman: Navy siezes arms cache

Weapons seized by HMAS Darwin from a small-arms smuggler boarded approximately 170 nautical miles off the coast of Oman. Photo credit: Australian Royal Navy NAIROBI, March 7 (Reuters) – An Australian Navy ship has seized…


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