Scores of attacks this year have brought the pirates millions of dollars in ransoms, hiked up shipping insurance costs, sent foreign navies rushing to the area, and left about a dozen boats with more than 200 hostages still in pirate hands.
Word of the latest attack off the anarchic Horn of Africa country came 10 days after gunmen from Somalia captured the Saudi supertanker in history's biggest maritime hijacking.
The November 15 capture of the Sirius Star -- loaded with oil worth $100 million and 25 crew members from Britain, Poland, Croatia, Saudi Arabia and the Philippines -- has focused world attention on the Somali sea gangs. The Gulf of Aden links Europe to Asia and is one of the world's busiest shipping corridors.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I like this article so much because I can read it. Many articles that find have so many words that I don't know that I have no clue what the writer is talking about. This article from Reuters.com is easy to read, and very informative. Words like "rushing" and "loaded" and even "focused" all are modern-day-english words. What may be brought down by using these simple words is credibility, yet Reuters is the website where all mainstream news websites access information. Websites like NYTimes and CNN credit Reuters after almost each article written. I think that gives them enough credibility.
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It came from Reuters, but did it have a title? Writer? Include that information if you have it. About the content of your article, can you believe this can really happen? Pirates? Crazy!
Yeah, I'm doing a research project on them for Global Issues. It's really interesting.
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