The hefty international naval presence, with an average of 20 warships per day cruising off Somalia's coast, is simply not enough to halt the pirates.
But there are also fleeting targets of opportunity, like the Libyan warship on Sunday, as well as tanks, artillery or pickup trucks outfitted with heavy guns that are spotted in hiding places, vetted swiftly and hunted down, often in minutes.
BEIJING, Nov. 21 — A warship sailed Wednesday for the first port visit by the Chinese Navy to Japan since the end of World War II, Chinese state media reported.
MANAMA, Bahrain — A nuclear-powered United States submarine collided with a Navy warship early Friday in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow passage through which much of the world's oil must pass on its way to market, the Navy announced.
Meanwhile, NATO warplanes attacked another Libyan warship early Sunday as part of a series of overnight airstrikes that also bombed two tanks in western Libya and an administrative barracks that military officials said was being used as a command-and-control site to direct fire against Libyan civilians.
NAIROBI, Kenya — American warships on Monday surrounded an arms-laden freighter hijacked by pirates, sealing off any possible escape in a standoff near the craggy Somalia coastline.
Kathleen McGrath, the first woman to command a United States Navy warship, died on Thursday at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. She was 50 and lived in McLean, Va.
As conspicuous displays of wealth go, the mooring of Motor Yacht A – owned by Russian tycoon Andrey Melnichenko – last month on one of the most striking spots on the Thames, next to D-day warship HMS Belfast by Tower Bridge, was hard to top.
There was no mistaking Motor Yacht A, owned by Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko, as it sailed into the heart of the capital at the weekend, mooring next to the D-Day warship HMS Belfast by Tower Bridge.
Wagner's opera, set mostly on a modern-day warship, now has a "Marnie -like backstory: Tristan's yearning for oblivion steMarnie -likeearly loss of his parents (and an unfortunate incident involving a cigarette lighter), which his foster father King Marke, an admiral, cannot heal, perhaps backstoryf his own compliciTristan
