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  2. West Indies anti-piracy operations of the United States

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    The West Indies Anti-Piracy Operations were a series of military operations and engagements undertaken by the United States Navy against pirates in and around the Antilles. Between 1814 and 1825, the American West Indies Squadron hunted pirates on both sea and land, primarily around Cuba and Puerto Rico . [ 1 ]

  3. 2024 in piracy - Wikipedia

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    2024 in piracy included 33 reports of maritime piracy and armed robbery against ships to the International Maritime Bureau during the first quarter of the year. Incidents that happend in 2023 and soon is reported to happen 2026 Crew continued to suffer violence, [clarify] with 35 seafarers taken hostage, nine kidnapped, and one of the most important casualties threatened during the first three ...

  4. 2022 in piracy - Wikipedia

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    Piracy had substantially increased in the Gulf of Guinea; the year began with five incidents each month, through March, in the Gulf, where acts of piracy had become heightened during 2015 through 2020, while, overall, piracy incidents declined globally. [3] The Covid-19 pandemic continued to impact maritime piracy in 2022. [4] [5]

  5. Piracy - Wikipedia

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    Piracy usually excludes crimes committed by the perpetrator on their own vessel (e.g. theft), as well as privateering, which implies authorization by a state government. Piracy or pirating is the name of a specific crime under customary international law and also the name of a number of crimes under the municipal law of a number of states.

  6. Piracy kidnappings - Wikipedia

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    The Gulf of Guinea (where most piracy occurs) lacks security measures in comparison with the international waters off Somalia. [15] Kidnappings for ransom have gradually increased farther from the coast, however, and pirates can operate 80 to 160 kilometres (50 to 99 mi) from shore. [9] Piracy incidents may occur on land, as well as aboard ships.

  7. Oil gushed into the Gulf and people got sick. A secret ... - AOL

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    The massive leak started a mile below the surface of the water, 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana, and the oil spread far and wide. The plaintiffs are from Louisiana to South Florida.

  8. SY Quest incident - Wikipedia

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    On 8 July 2013 Ahmed Muse Salad, a/k/a "Afmagalo", 27, Abukar Osman Beyle, 33, and Shani Nurani Shiekh Abrar, 31–those who actually killed the 4 hostages–were found guilty of piracy, murder within the Special Maritime and Territorial Jurisdiction of the United States, violence against maritime navigation, conspiracy to commit violence against maritime navigation resulting in death ...

  9. Ports restrict navigation, some oil facilities shut as Milton ...

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    Meteorologists forecast 10 to 15 feet (3.05 to 4.57 meters)of storm surge, 140 miles per hour (mph) wind gusts and say more than 2 feet of rain is possible along the Florida Gulf Coast in the area ...