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...this seizure demonstrates the pirates' dramatically expanded reach. Two, the buccaneers have never taken over an oil supertanker, capable of carrying 2 million barrels of oil. It is the biggest ship ever seized by the pirates. U.S. Navy officers say the ship appears to be heading toward the Somali port of Eyl, a harbor where the pirates often park their plunder while negotiations proceed. Meanwhile, pirates are holding 14 other vessels and their crews hostage for ransom off the coast of Somalia...
...even the pros couldn't do it ... I threw up my hands." Eventually they halved each of the original seven sections. The day Hirano returned from Mexico to Tokyo in 2005, Toshiko died. She had orchestrated the mural's return but missed seeing it arrive at Japan's southern port of Kobe by just two weeks...
...Port-au-Prince fared better than other parts of the country after the storms, but that means it's a likely destination for the survivors of the storms. Increased migration puts an added burden on the capital's limited and overtaxed resources. Indeed, there was very little in terms of first responders when La Promesse collapse. A Haitian fire department exists but in name only. It also apparently gets imaginary money: $50,000 budgeted to repair fire engines and other faulty equipment has never materialized. Meanwhile, the estimated 100 or so firemen are really police officers...
...undermined by resentment of U.S. military activity and civilian casualties--and the blowback empowers the extremists. Al-Shabaab (Arabic for Youth) now controls much of the south of the country, in the manner of the Taliban: on Oct. 27, 1,000 spectators gathered at a sports stadium in the port of Kismayo to watch al-Shabaab stone to death a 13-year-old girl, Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow. Amnesty International says al-Shabaab arrested her and convicted her of adultery after she complained she had been gang-raped...
...Haiti A School's Sorrow Several students were injured after a school collapsed in Port-au-Prince on Nov. 12, less than a week after the devastating collapse of a different school building in nearby Pétionville, which killed more than 90 people. Haitian President René Préval has blamed poor construction methods and materials for the disasters, amid concerns that similar buildings may also be at risk...