Feature List - News Analysis
Stafford Williamson
November 23, 2009
Hilary Clinton needs to learn to keep her lips zipped. I sure Bill has a zipper or two he isn't using much these days. How can she remain so ignorant of the REAL causes of cultural change?
SUPER FREAKONOMICS is a quirky way of looking at the world, that the rest of the world should be paying attention to. Malcolm Gladwell's quirky view was highly enlightening in "blink" and "outliers" but he has some really twisted POV's to offer in this series of shorter pieces he is recycling. Both of these are great lessons in culture that Hilary should read, too.
Diesel Brewing has honorable goals, but slow progress. I want to wish them well.
Heifer International has a "something for everyone" catalog for everyone on your gift list, or a "gift registry" if you really want to prevent people from sending you un-needed boxes of butt-balloons ... er, I mean, chocolates.
Marwa Rakha
November 23, 2009
In the aftermath of the Egypt-Algeria match in Sudan, Egyptian football fans demonstrated in Zamalek in front of the Algerian embassy in Cairo on Thursday night and on Friday afternoon. The President's eldest son, Alaa Mubarak, instigated the riots live on national TV. On the morning of Saturday 21 November, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak gave a speech in a joint session of parliament's two house (People´s Assembly and the Shura Council) where, without direct mention of Algeria, he said that the dignity of Egyptians is part of the dignity of Egypt and vowed that Egypt will not tolerate those who insult it's citizens.
Marwa Rakha
November 23, 2009
In April 2008, freedom of speech and creativity in Egypt was hit in its core with the confiscation of Magdy El Shafee's adult graphic novel - Metro. Since then the author and his pubisher have been on trial and while every one was busy with the football war between Egypt and Algeria, the court officially banned the novel.
Gary Ater
November 22, 2009
Charles Krauthammer at the Washington Post has already assumed that the 9/11 Mastermind trial in New York will be their "Broadway Stage". He ignores that it was the Bush Administration´s Gitmo, Abu Ghraib and prison torture that has made this American "Show-Trial" even necessary.
Marwa Rakha
November 23, 2009
Several names have been thrown in the pool of candidates for Egypt's 2011 presidential elections; In September 2005 Ayman Nour of Al Ghad Party and No'man Goma'a of New Wafd Party nominated themselves against President Hosni Mubarak. Nour was charged with fraud and Goma'a was accused of insanity! Since 2000, Gamal Hosni Mubarak has the been groomed to be his father's successor and some people wondered Why Not? Rumor has it that Omar Soliman, Chief of the Egyptian General Intelligence Services, is an eligible presidential candidate. In June 2009, a blog and Facebook group were dedicated to support him. In September 2009, a Coptic lawyer threw the hat in for the Presidential run. Today Egyptians want Alaa Mubarak - Hosni Mubarak's eldest son - for president!
Amit Kothiyal
November 23, 2009
Clipta Informer (http://info.clipta.com/), one of the largest and free online platforms that enables website publishers to promote their site through video, has received the highest number of hits this season. Located on some of the most famous video sharing websites,
Ki Gray
November 23, 2009
Topping the list of institutions under fire are the familiar faces of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the poster children for good intentions gone bad. The government entities faced renewed federal scrutiny earlier this year. What to do with the troubled HUD groups, however, is still up in the air. T...
Ki Gray
November 23, 2009
Statistics can be tricky. It all depends on who is doing the math and for what purpose. The latest report on how many jobs can be attributed to the workings of the stimulus package is a perfect case in point. The Obama Administration came out at the end of October with the announcement that the s...
Ki Gray
November 23, 2009
Rates fell for the third straight week. They hit the lowest point since May 21st and they reached the 6th lowest point in history. It will come as no shock to those that have been following rates that the 5 lower rates all occurred this year. Below are the 6 lowest rates of all time.
April 30t...
Tim Williams
November 22, 2009
If all of the other industrialized countries have Universal Health Care and the quality of care is the same for all what is wrong with our congress in it's lame attempt to reform our outdated, inefficient, blotted, and corrupted way the medical insurance providers are run? If the current legislat...
Joseph Raglione
November 22, 2009
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, go out and buy a Button!
Dear Natalie Foster:
If I were an American I would run out and by your button, but I am not an American and I am basically broke, therefore, I will not run out and buy your button.
My problem is that I am a social ...
Sam Vaknin
November 22, 2009
The print media should jump on the wagon: they should solicit contributions from citizen journalists, bloggers, i-reporters, and e-columnists. These content providers are likely to be satisfied with a mere byline for their remuneration (seeing their name in print!) Having thus cut their costs by leveraging the public's vanity, newspapers and magazines will be able to concentrate on customer relations (via their internet properties and social networking tools) and on what they do best: coherent aggregation, contextual commentary, and communal branding.
Kanini Evans Kariuki
November 22, 2009
ARGUABLY ONE OF THE BEST AND ELOQUENT FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER'S KENYA HAS EVER PRODUCED,WETANGULA EMERGES THRICE AS MUCH POPULAR,ASSERTIVE,CONFIDENT,BOLD AND AS FEARLESS AS EVER WITH THE DISMISSAL OF THE ELECTION PETITION AGAINST HIM. READ ON:
SIRISIA constituency, in Western Kenya, exploded i...
Rudra Sharma
November 22, 2009
November 20, 2009 marks the third anniversary of the Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) held between the government of Nepal and erstwhile Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). They did it for good and replaced the then existing constitution by an interim Constitution putting a vision and mission of New ...
Mike Banos
November 22, 2009
The Catholic Church's highest ranked official in Northern Mindanao believes a "Catholic Vote" could be a potent force in bringing back transparency and integrity into government.
Tim Williams
November 21, 2009
Ebenizer Scrooge is alive and well in today's economy. If the Republican party in state and federal office had their way health care is fashioned that famous line from A Christmas Carol " If they rather die than be in state institutions they had better do it and decrease the surplus population" is...
Greenpeace sends President Obama an urgent call to action from heart of South East Asia's rainforest
International Desk
November 22, 2009
"Indonesia is climate change's 'ground zero'"
Newswire Services
November 21, 2009
Coalition of local business owners and organizations call on U.S. Chamber's President Tom Donohue to stop protecting a small number of CEOs and start supporting businesses and consumers in California
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- Outside of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Regional Government Affairs conven...
International Desk
November 21, 2009
With new submarines, destroyers and mine warfare ships, China's Navy is clearly benefiting from modernization financed by the nation's rapidly growing economy, a new report tells U.S. lawmakers.
But a more shadowy Chinese force probably poses a greater immediate threat to the United States - that i...
International Desk
November 21, 2009
China renewed a call for a cooperative international effort against Somali piracy by defining patrol areas in the Horn of Africa.
In its call for teamwork, officials deftly parried appeals for China to lead the anti-piracy mission.
China and other countries in Somali waters will "strive to reach c...
International Desk
November 21, 2009
Somali livestock traders see through the Saudi policy and fear political closure will be imposed soon again.
Aussie live sheep exports falling short.
Countries like Romania are increasingly being relied on to make up for Australia´s sheep live export shortfall because of continual downsizing...
International Desk
November 21, 2009
I meet world-renowned undersea photojournalist Brian Skerry at Legal Seafoods, across from the New England Aquarium, where he's the explorer in residence.
He orders a chicken Caesar salad.
"I refrain from eating much seafood due to environmental concerns," he explains, before launching into a depr...
Marian Houk
November 21, 2009
The present disarray in Palestinian politics is causing great dismay. Fatah prisoners in Israeli jails suggest that for the time that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas remains in office -- after his recent decision (1) not to run in the next elections he decreed for 24 January and (2) to cancel the elections -- he should continue to work to help find a solution to present to his people. Fatah leader Qaddura Fares, said Saturday in Ramallah the de facto Palestinian West Bank's capital city) that "We do not elect leaders to serve only in good times, or when things are going well ... They must also be leaders in bad times, and when thing are not going so well".
International Desk
November 21, 2009
China has sent a new navy flotilla to join an international fleet in the Gulf of Aden combating increasingly bold Somali pirates who are pushing deeper into the Indian Ocean as merchant vessels start to fight back against them.
One of the missions of the incoming flotilla, the fourth Beijing has ro...
International Desk
November 21, 2009
Pirate attacks on shipping lanes around the Horn of Africa have shown no sign of relenting, and the nations policing the seas are struggling to find solutions in a mission that seems to be covering a growing area and time frame.
The attacks have moved deeper into the Indian Ocean and along the Afri...
International Desk
November 21, 2009
The decision to pay ransom or fight pirates on the high seas still often depends more on shipowners.
How can the U.S. and Europe keep ship owners from paying ransoms that make Somali pirates more dangerous?
The swarm of pirates buzzing around the so-called Somali Basin has grown since last year ev...
International Desk
November 21, 2009
Clashes Between Armed Guards And Pirates Lead to More Fatalities
When pirates attacked the chemical freighter MV Theresa VIII, with a South Korean crew of 28, they didn't hesitate. The captain, who fired flares during the attack, was injured so badly by gunfire that he died one day later. He is s...
International Desk
November 21, 2009
Spanish tuna trawler Alakrana and its 36 crew members were released on Nov. 17 after being held hostage by pirates for one and a half months, and after paying a $3.5 million ransom.
The ship was hijacked by pirates in Somali waters on Oct. 2. Crew members were reported to be in good health.
Spanis...
International Desk
November 21, 2009
Hostages Paul and Rachel Chandler have made a direct plea in a video obtained by Channel 4 News, warning UK authorities they fear the "kidnappers are losing patience" and may kill them.
The couple, from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, were taken captive by pirates on 22 October as they sailed their yacht, t...
International Desk
November 21, 2009
Innoshima, Japan - Following a week of potentially crippling budgetary reviews and a high-profile visit from US President Barack Obama to Japan, the so-called ´scientific´ whaling fleet crept out of port, as Greenpeace called for today's departure to be the programme's last.
Earlier, ...
International Desk
November 21, 2009
International -- An independent expert, commissioned by Greenpeace, has concluded that two nuclear reactors, currently under construction in Finland and France, suffer from serious safety flaws. The EPR (European Pressurised Reactor) design, which is supplied by the French company AREVA, fails to ad...
John Atwood
November 20, 2009
How efficient will the new health care system be with Federal bureaucrats in charge of everything. The IRS is being touted as the agency best suited to administer the new Health program--it staggers the mind.
Kenneth Connor
November 20, 2009
Affordability, accessibility, quality―the hallowed trifecta at the center of the debate over health care reform. Proponents of reform argue that these three goals must be achieved for all Americans before any reform effort can be called a success. As a means to this end, supporters of market...
Jason Barlow Cunningham
November 21, 2009
In recent weeks, the initial jobless claims number may have stabilized. In fact, the Labor Department has reported 505,000 seasonally adjusted initial jobless claims during the past two weeks.
Joseph Raglione
November 21, 2009
It is strange how far we have not come.
Szandor Blestman
November 21, 2009
History has a strange way of repeating itself. In the late 1700s, in America, people were experiencing the culmination of the Enlightenment. They were on the fringes of the greatest empire at the time, an empire run by the parliamentary monarchy of King George III in a land far from the colonies. As...
David Swanson
November 21, 2009
I had to read a lot of books about the current war and occupation in Iraq before I found one that's laugh out-loud hilarious.
John Atwood
November 16, 2009
Our enemies in time of war are not entitled to a trial in our civilian courts. That is contrary to history and common sense.
Robert Owens
November 16, 2009
It´s time to understand that if we don´t stand for something we´ll fall for anything and until you admit you have a problem there´s no chance of finding a solution. Are we going to stand silent as people shoot our unarmed citizens in the name of God? Will we allow apologists for evil to blame the second amendment instead of telling us the truth?
Patrick Lockyer
November 20, 2009
My dear tortured Lady Diana Princess of Wales. I wept for you all over again recently and it was completely unexpected. I had wept at the time and was deeply shocked. I was one of the first to know of your death in England due to circumstances.
Sadaket Ali Malik
November 20, 2009
Sadaket Malik
New Delhi´s secret search for peace has had sparked off intense political competition in the state. The offer of dialogue in Delhi proved vague. There is no change for the common man. The metal detectors can't detect the anger and alienation of the Kashmiri people. No a...
Dan Liftman
November 20, 2009
Not all are hailin' Palin
Ahmed Kheyre
November 20, 2009
HARGEISA-SOMALILAND - The Somaliland Minister of Home Affairs, Mr. Abdillahi Ismail Ali welcomed Dr. Linda Richter, Executive Director for Child, Youth, Family and Social Development, UNICEF, at Berbera International Airport. Dr. Richter and her delegation paid a short visit Somaliland to inspect an...
Joseph Raglione
November 20, 2009
What kind of soap do you use to wash Hogs? Is Hogwashing a sport?
Joseph Raglione
November 20, 2009
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, the enemy is at the gates. They have more arrows (dollars) than we do but have faith, we can organize faster and better than they can...>
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Hundreds of insurance company lobbyists. Millions in TV ads from anti-reform organizations. Countl...
Dr. Andreas Umland
November 19, 2009
It might have been the experience of the Orange Revolution that motivated the Kremlin to abandon, three years later, its earlier dramaturgy of staged political competition by controlled parties, and go, in December 2007, for an almost complete, largely undisguised restoration of an, in essence, singly-party system.
Joseph Raglione
November 20, 2009
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, the way the Republicans are carrying on in Washington, you'd think each one was being forced to swallow a Pint of Castor Oil! The Health Bill is not a bad thing, it is a good thing, and it will protect U.S. citizens. If Republicans don't like it, they c...
Frank A. Hilario
November 19, 2009
MANILA - Are you looking for a miracle in Copenhagen in December? So am I. Only a miracle can save the day for climate change in that premier city of Northern Europe, Scandinavia's "most fantastic city" (Copenhagen.com). This city has the oldest monarchy in the world. Some things never cha...
Gary Ater
November 19, 2009
The antics of the politicians in Washington would be laughable if they weren´t so tragic.
Kanini Evans Kariuki
November 15, 2009
THE SPECIAL STORY OF A LEADING AND INFLUENTIAL BUSINESSWOMAN AND POLITICAL STAR. READ HER CAPTIVATING STORY. HERE WE GO.......
HER name is Mary Wambui.
She is a respected heroine from Kenya in the East African region, located in the larger Africa.
She is a leading and prominent busines...
Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
November 17, 2009
Main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party´s secretary general Khondokar Delwar Hossain alleged that the government was ´influencing the court´ in getting a verdict as per their wills. While, Law Minister Barrister Shafiq Ahmed rejected such allegations saying, courts and judges were completely independent in making decision. It is believed that Bangladesh Nationalist Party [BNP] is a beneficiary of the August 15, 1975 assassination of Bangabandhu. In this case, it is natural that this party will be sympathetic towards the self-proclaimed killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
November 17, 2009
Few months back, Hizbut Towhid activists were arrested in different parts of Bangladesh, while they were distributing leaflets against Kindergarten schools and English medium education system in Bangladesh. It is learnt from various reliable sources that, Bayeejid Khan Panni has successfully recrited some West educated people in his group, who are working in preparing various publications for this notorious terror outfit. In recent months, the group has started agressively spreading its hate message amongst people with the intention of creating Jihadist mentality in the minds of commoners.
Jonathan Ragus
November 18, 2009
MVP Gotham analyst Oliver VanDervoort takes a look at the Bills firing of head coach Dick Jauron after a dismal start.
Stuart Nachbar
November 18, 2009
Mississippi governor Haley Barbour proposes to consolidate three Historically Black Colleges and Universities into a single, but stronger institution. But are the supposed cost savings worth the loss of identity for these schools?
James Stafford
November 18, 2009
An extraordinary game of Geo-strategy is underway to lock in long term agreements in the energy sector. At a global level, the transit routes of future oil & gas pipelines become the object of a power struggle involving not only the suppliers and end-users but also the transit countries.
Ajibowo Oluwastosin
November 19, 2009
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David Swanson
November 18, 2009
I've been reading a brand new book called "The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle," which is in large part an analysis of what worked in the protesting of the World Trade Organization 10 years ago. Why is it, I wonder, that activists were able to shut down the center of this major city in Washington state, but for years we have been unable to shut down the center of Washington, D.C., in opposition to wars.
Steve Selengut
November 18, 2009
Class warfare politics is America's shame. The majority of Americans want the opportunity to succeed at something, to become rich and famous, even. We don't want free; we want affordable. We want to be in control of our own destinies. We want jobs, world-class education, and healthcare that doesn't have to look over its shoulder for ambulance chasers.
No Climate Laws til 2010, Kenya National Biofuel Policy, DOE/USDA Grants, Recycle EVERYTHING(almost)
Stafford Williamson
November 16, 2009
Kenya aims for 5% biodiesel mandate.
No new climate legislation in time for Copenhagen (MAYBE a GOOD THING?)
Money well spent from DOE and USDA goes to Exelus, Velocys, and GEVO
Recycling expands in Peoria, let's hope it's a trend.
Jonathan Ragus
November 17, 2009
MVP Gotham predicts where some of the hottest MLB Free Agents will sign this off-season.
Lea Anna Cooper
November 16, 2009
"The President of the United States, Barack Obama owns shares in Baxter, the company many say is responsible for the H1N1 swine flu pandemic. Would this then make a person wonder who else in the walls of Congress owns stock in a vaccine being created years before the bill was introduced?
Jack Drain
November 16, 2009
If the author is on the right track, this may be a part of the revelation to save America
or at least understand it's financial collapse. You will either be a part of the problem or a partner in the solution! The author is pleading for knowlegable imput to connect all the missing dots to this "Mother of all Fears" catastrophe. We have been betrayed by those we trusted the most...or not?
Dennis AuBuchon
November 17, 2009
The Secretary of the Department of Transportation has broad responsibilities which touches every citizen either directly or indirectly. The task is one which can and does have a huge impact on our transportation system. Some of the responsibilities are known while others are not so well recognized.
Ahmed Hany
November 17, 2009
When the US secretary of state Hilary Clinton asked the Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas to resume negotiations without freezing settlements, she put the first nail in the coffin of the peace process based on the Two-States solution. Simply she asked him to negotiate for negotiations while lettin...
Joseph Raglione
November 18, 2009
GreenPeace Activists Are Going to Court in Alberta Canada. They need your help!
Jesse D Evans
November 17, 2009
Learning some guiding principles for maintaining your private note on a mobile home will help make sure you end up with a qualified borrower and hopefully, devalue the likelihood of diametrical a manufactured household foreclosure situation down the line.
Mike Colpitts
November 17, 2009
Housing Predictor is out with its annual national forecast, which is calling for the housing market to improve in 2010.
David Swanson
November 17, 2009
"If a majority of workers want a union, they should get a union. It's that simple. We need to stand up to the business lobby and pass the Employee Free Choice Act. That's why I've been fighting for it in the Senate and that's why I'll make it the law of the land when I'm president of the United States." --Barack Obama
Gary Ater
November 17, 2009
Public Education and the American worker, neither looks very "robust" today.
David Swanson
November 17, 2009
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and the corporate "mainstream" media make quite a pair. We're hearing a very "balanced" debate over whether KSM should be tried in New York City, and whether the most insane objections to that proposal are really insane or not. But what are we not hearing?
Gary Ater
November 14, 2009
Was Dr. Hasan´s attack an attempt at committing an "acceptable" Muslim suicide?
Joseph Raglione
November 17, 2009
Gentle readers of this American Chronicle, every time I believe your government is doing something good, something bad happens! During the last election, Homo Sexuals lost their right to marry in California, due mainly to the direct economic interference of biased religious organizations. And now, a...
Joseph Raglione
November 17, 2009
Gentle readers of this American Chronicle, life is hard enough without military dictators creating fear and terror in countries like North Korea. The following is a message from Rohit Mahajan, Media Relations Manager for the Radio Free Asia network...>
Also on www.rfa.org:
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John Williams
November 16, 2009
Solihull Physiotherapist launches new Solihull physiotherapy web testimonial video for back pain and sciatica
Tymphaios
November 16, 2009
In 1948, Cominform, the first official forum of the international communist movement since the dissolution of the Comintern, put into action a plan to take hostage to communist countries children from Greece during the Greek civil war. The aim was to re-educate the children as well as blackmail the populace and the Greek government towards reaching a settlement leading to a partition of Greece and the subsequent creation of an internationalist "Macedonian" Republic. This move has favoured by the Yugoslav dictator Josip Broz Tito and had been a Comitern policy aimed at destroying the national states of the Balkans through the creation of internationalist republics. Today several FYROM sources claim or at least believe the abducted children were FYROMacedonian. Indeed that they were not abducted, rather they were refugees fleeing the Greek army.
Ki Gray
November 16, 2009
Having the bank seize your home is nobody's idea of a good time. A word that was hardly part of the American vernacular two years ago, foreclosure is all too common these days. While the number of homes in some state of foreclosure is decreasing each month, the fact is that foreclosures across the...
Ki Gray
November 16, 2009
While the expectation has been that mortgage rates would start to rise they have fallen for the last 2 weeks. This week the 30 year rate fell from 4.98 to 4.91 (last week it fell from 5.03 to 4.98). Besides October 8th its the lowest rate we have seen since the start of the summer. So how does 4....
Jonathan Ragus
November 13, 2009
MVP Gotham Editor Jonathan Ragus reports that the Los Angeles Dodgers are interested in New York Mets 2nd baseman Luis Castillo
Szandor Blestman
November 13, 2009
There's an anger roiling throughout American society. Perhaps it reaches overseas into all of Western society, I can't say, but it's particularly palpable here, especially among the middle classes. People know that something is wrong. They may not be able to put their finger on exactly what is wrong...
Tim Williams
November 13, 2009
Nowhere in the United States Constitution does it say that a individuals finances are the basic requirement for any political office. Yet, today more than in any other time in our history elections are won and lost solely on the bases of monetary strengths. Ideas, concepts, platforms, and solutio...
Tariq Saeedi
November 15, 2009
Two new gas export pipelines of Turkmenistan will come into operation in December 2009, one going to China and the other to Iran. Together, they will break the bear hug of Russia on the economy of Turkmenistan.
Stephen Allen Graham
November 14, 2009
The health care bill passed in the House of Representatives is slated to cost in the ballpark of one trillion dollars over the next ten years. It varies depending on the estimate, but honestly, is there anything you wouldn´t buy for $1.2 trillion that you might say consider at $0.9 trillion? ...
Dale Netherton
November 15, 2009
The "Stimulus " has proven to be a failure in job creation and further government attempts to create jobs will ultimately fail.
William Hughes
November 15, 2009
The state of Virginia executed John Allen Muhammad, the Washington area sniper, who killed ten innocent people on a murder spree. Muhammad, like Timothy J. McVeigh, was a Gulf War Vet, who was exposed to deadly toxic chemicals. His lawyers pleaded with Governor Tim Kaine to spare his life, arguing that he was suffering from the "Gulf War Syndrome." Albert Camus, the author, said the death penalty was really about--"vengeance!"
David Swanson
November 15, 2009
And, like you, I think President Barack Obama has way, way, way too much power. But, unlike you, I'm not principally to blame for that.
Frank A. Hilario
November 15, 2009
The change to change climate change begins with you.
Marian Houk
November 15, 2009
The awful oppression of the continued Israeli occupation of Palestinian lives and Palestinian land is still not fully known, forty-two years after the June 1967 war, and twenty-one years after the Proclamation of a State of Palestine in Algiers on 15 November 1988. Visitors who come here are shocked. They say they could not imagine what it is like, despite the news reports that almost everybody is aware of. How to tell what it is like? Here is one attempt...
Joseph Raglione
November 15, 2009
Slow change is better than no change but how much slower will they go?
Marwa Rakha
November 14, 2009
From ferocious marketing campaigns to facebook wars, hacking, and owl burning the November 14th match between Egypt and Algeria has turned into an ugly war. Egyptian-Algerian actor dedicates this wake-up call to the hypnotized mobs.
Joseph Raglione
November 14, 2009
What if the United Nations issued United Nations Passports to Stateless people in desperate need?
International Desk
November 13, 2009
Marine piracy continues to be a serious risk for shipping companies, sailors, cargo owners, and insurers.
According to the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) in London, pirate attacks are an almost daily feature. Modern day pirates are armed with state-of the-art weapons and experts suspect that ...
International Desk
November 13, 2009
Djibouti has forcibly sent 40 asylum seekers from Somalia back to the Somali capital Mogadishu, says the United Nations refugee agency.
A Dutch naval ship, the Evertsen, [N.B.: operating under EU NAVFOR, who were proud on their "ACTION"] on anti-piracy patrols in the Red Sea, rescued the migrants c...
International Desk
November 13, 2009
Kenya will continue to work with the international community in the fight against piracy to protect its tourism sector.
There should be no cause for alarm about trying suspected pirates on Kenyan soil, said Internal Security assistant minister Orwa Ojodeh.
He said Kenya had signed a memorandum of ...
International Desk
November 13, 2009
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has denied media reports saying Somali pirates have hijacked a UAE- flagged ship, the state-run news agency WAM reported.
The reports by some media about the abduction "are deviating from the truth," Mohammed Sultan Al Suwaidi, director of the Foreign Ministry's Arab ...
International Desk
November 13, 2009
The families of the fishermen held in the Indian Ocean met Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to ask him to extradite the two Somali pirates jailed in Spain to Somalia.
A meeting of the relatives of the crew members of the hijacked trawler Alakrana with the Spanish Prime Minister J...
International Desk
November 13, 2009
The captain of a Hong Kong-flagged oil tanker has been hailed for successfully eluding Somali pirates who attacked his ship with automatic weapons and grenades from two skiffs in the Indian Ocean.
Captain Sunil Fredrick Mani was in command of the VLCC BW LION when it was attacked by two pirate boat...
International Desk
November 13, 2009
Spain is anxiously following a high-tension piracy drama off the coast of a faraway African country where Somali pirates are gradually stepping up pressure on the government in Madrid. Will a group of young pirates - nervous, drug-using, and armed to the teeth - kill the terrified fishermen who for ...
International Desk
November 13, 2009
An anti-piracy official in Somalia's transitional government said that a cargo ship seized by pirates had been carrying weapons, a charge denied by the owners of the ship's cargo.
"On November 7 a cargo ship carrying a wide range of weapons was seized by Somali buccaneers," said the official, Ismai...
International Desk
November 13, 2009
Somali pirates said Wednesday that they had seized at dawn a Greek-owned container ship after a five-hour chase in fast skiffs across the Indian Ocean, reflecting both an increase in pirate activity after a period of rough weather and signs of increasing boldness among the hijackers.
The East Afric...