"Somali pirates release ship after 43 days" by Associated Press | December 19, 2009
NAIROBI - Somali pirates have released a Greek-owned ship and its 21 crew members, including 14 Filipinos, after more than a month in captivity, the Philippine government and the ship’s owner said yesterday.
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The embassy of the Philippines in Nairobi reported that the MV Delvina was heading to Mombasa with its crew members, who were in good health. Foreign Affairs spokesman Ed Malaya said the ship, seized on Nov. 5, was released about 2 a.m. “All the crew are reported unharmed and are well despite their 43-day ordeal,’’ the ship’s owner, Meadway Shipping & Trading Inc., said in a statement in Athens.
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The Philippine government’s statement said 53 Filipino sailors on four ships were being held by the pirates. More than 340 others have been freed since 2006. Meanwhile, sailors from a Portuguese warship boarded a suspected pirate ship off the coast of Somalia. The crew of the Alvares Cabral identified equipment and weapons on a skiff during a patrol in the Gulf of Aden around dawn yesterday, said naval spokesman Lieutenant Commander Alexandre Santos Fernandes.
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Nothing about that daily violence, 'eh, Globe?
The Somali upwelling, a powerful current, sometimes tosses rubbish onto the beach from as far away as Indonesia; and when the current reverses course, it hurls another load up from Southern Africa, as far afield as Mozambique....
Wow!!
Yeah, how would YOU like someone DUMPING NUCLEAR WASTE on YOUR SHORE, huh?
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