Piracy Costing $6.9 Billion as Attacks off Somalia Reach Record

8 February 2012, 2:10 am

Somali pirates cost the shipping industry and governments as much as $6.9 billion last year as average ransom payments advanced 25 percent, according to One Earth Future Foundation.... Read More »

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