Piracy on the high seas used to be a simple affair: Climb on board, take the valuables, and...

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But now on the volatile waters off east Africa, pirates are carrying rocket launchers, demanding multimillion dollar ransoms and hijacking 1,080-foot (329-meter) oil tankers. So the cost of insurance for ships is rising along with...
TO BOARD the Sirius Star, one of the world’s largest oil tankers, Somali pirates had to haul themselves up ropes tied to grapnel hooks the height of London’s Big Ben, with the 330-metre (1,100 feet) long ship pitching all the while in the...
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