A man was shot dead on Sunday after he refused to disembark from a yacht in the Indian Ocean that was hijacked by Somali pirates last week, pirates and residents said on Sunday.

Last week a Somali pirate was sentenced to 33 years in prison by a New York court for the 2009 hijacking of the Maersk Alabama, a U.S. cargo vessel.

AMSTERDAM, June 23 (Reuters) - Somali pirates freed a Dutch freighter on Tuesday, but one of the Ukrainian crew was shot dead by the pirates, the Dutch Foreign Ministry said. Another crew member ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Suspected Somali pirates have hijacked another Yemeni fishing boat off the Horn of Africa, the third such attack in recent weeks, authorities said Monday. In a ...