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The Karen National Union attacks an army outpost near the Myanmar–Thailand border at dawn. The Myanmar military retaliates with airstrikes as some 450 Thai villagers are moved to safety by the Thai military. There are no immediate reports of casualties.
2021-04-27

A Thai national is arrested in Myanmar in relation to human trafficking offences after the Myanmar Navy rescues more than 200 people from a boat that he allegedly owns.
2015-05-30

Six foreigners including two Britons and an American are jailed for lengthy terms in Somalia after the seizure of a plane containing $3.6 million in ransom for pirates.
2011-06-19

United States Navy commandos from the destroyer USS "Bulkeley" capture four Somali pirates who boarded the Japanese oil tanker, the MV Guanabara.
2011-03-6

Somali pirates seize a Mongolian bulk carrier off the coast of Oman.
2011-01-20

The Kenyan navy shoots dead three suspected Somali pirates who had attacked a naval patrol.
2010-11-13

Somali pirates release Puntland's Ports Minister Said Mohamed Rageh who was kidnapped last Friday.
2010-10-13

Somali pirates hijack a Marshall Islands-flagged ship with 18 Filipino sailors on board in the southern Red Sea.
2010-07-5

A Thai farm worker in Israel is killed by a rocket fired from the Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory of Gaza, according to the Israeli military.
2010-03-18

Somali pirates seize an Indonesian chemical tanker with 24 crew in the Gulf of Aden and a British cargo ship with 26 cars 620 miles off the Horn of Africa.
2010-01-2