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The UN Security Council adopted a resolution Monday urging member states to make piracy a crime and establish anti-piracy courts because of the rise in maritime piracy crime off the coast of Somalia. The request...

Five Somali men went on trial Tuesday in a Dutch court on charges of maritime piracy related to hijacking a South African yacht and kidnapping its crew. The Netherlands Public Prosecution Service [official website,...

The US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Friday charged three Somali pirates with 26 counts for acts of piracy in the hijacking of a US vessel that resulted in the deaths of four...

A Yemeni man pleaded guilty Thursday to acts of piracy for a hijacking of a US vessel that resulted in the deaths of four US citizens. Mounir Ali pleaded guilty in the US District Court for the...

A South Korean court sentenced a Somali pirate to life in prison, and three others to varying long-term sentences on Friday, for hijacking a South Korean ship. A fifth pirate pleaded guilty and was tried separately. The five men...

Two Somali men pleaded guilty Monday to charges of piracy for their role in hijacking a yacht, which resulted in the deaths of four Americans. The guilty pleas by Jilani Abdiali and Burhan Abdirahman Yusuf join those...

Four alleged Somali pirates captured from a hijacked ship are being put on trial in South Korea, but lawyers for the pirates argue the court does not have jurisdiction to try them. South Korean forces captured...

A Somali man pleaded guilty to charges of piracy and hostage taking on Friday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia for overtaking a yacht containing four American citizens. The...

Spain's National Court on Tuesday sentenced two Somali pirates to 439 years in prison each for their involvement in the 2009 hijacking of a Spanish fishing boat off the coast of Somalia. Pirates Cabdiweli Cabdullahi...

A Somali man pleaded not guilty on Wednesday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to piracy, kidnapping and weapons charges related to a yacht hijacking in February that left four Americans dead....