Modern piracy isn’t about chaos. It’s about gaps. Vast stretches of ocean fall outside effective enforcement, especially near ...

In his new book, Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas (Dutton), seaman and journalist John Burnett explores the world of highly trained contemporary pirates and maritime ...

Somali pirates want $15 million in ransom money for a Saudi tanker carrying $100 million worth of crude oil. The capture of the Sirius Star, which was taken earlier this month, is the most daring ...

HAMBURG (Reuters) - Ten suspected Somali pirates captured during the hijacking of a German cargo ship in April went on trial in Hamburg Monday, in Germany's first modern-day piracy trial. The suspects ...

When pirates began invading ships and taking hostages in the seas surrounding Somalia, it was world news. We heard daily about these hostages and ransoms and the rather archaic seeming bandits ...

John Burnett is the author of Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas. In 1992, he was sailing alone across the South China Sea toward Singapore ...

While the shadow library says it aims to preserve humanity’s culture, its pirated content has wider implications for the ...

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France & SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: Verimatrix, (Euronext Paris: VMX), the leader in powering the modern connected world with people-centered security, today ...

Maritime piracy conjures up scenes from Robert Louis Stevenson novels and Errol Flynn movies, a 17th-century phenomenon that went out with ships under sail. But if you believe that piracy is an ...

Iszi Lawrence, comedian, podcaster and history presenter rates portrayals of pirates in four Hollywood movies. Iszi worked on the Netflix documentary 'The Lost Pirate Kingdom' and is the author of ...