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(AP) LAGOS, Nigeria – Nigeria’s navy on Wednesday retook an oil tanker hijacked off the country’s largest city, freeing 23 Indian sailors held hostage by pirates who fled as the navy arrived, 파친코 a spokesman said. None of the sailors was hurt in the hijacking of the MT Abu Dhabi Star, which happened off the coast of Lagos, said Pat Adamson, a spokesman for Dubai-based Pioneer Ship Management Services LLC. The Nigerian navy was providing an escort for the vessel Wednesday afternoon to make sure it arrived safely at Lagos’ busy port, Commodore Kabir Aliyu said. The pirates who took over the vessel fled when they saw the Nigerian naval ship on the horizon, Adamson said. It was unclear whether they stole any of the ship’s cargo, though the crew had begun an inspection of the ship, the spokesman said. The pirates targeted the ship as it was anchored off the coast Tuesday night, Aliyu said. The sailors onboard sent distress signals as the pirates boarded the Singapore-flagged ship, with their last message indicating they had locked themselves inside a panic room on the vessel, Aliyu said. During the short hijacking, the ship’s management received no ransom demands for the crew, Pioneer Ship Management Services said. That’s not unusual, as pirates in the region increasingly target oil tankers for their cargos, holding control of the vessels only long enough...

Maslah Yare says pirates bundled Paul and Rachel Chandler into a car Monday and took them into a forest, soon after receiving word that al-Shabab fighters were approaching the town of Haradhere, a town on the Somali coast that is a pirate lair. Ahmed Salad, a businessman, says an advance team of militants entered Haradhere in two vehicles late Sunday. Somali pirates and insurgents are two separate groups. If al-Shabab, which is linked to al Qaeda, takes control of pirate strongholds, the pirates’ 300-plus foreign hostages could be in greater danger. The Chandlers have been held hostage for nearly six months and were seen pleading for help in a video released in January, though the video’s date could not be verified. British broadcaster Sky News aired the footage of 59-year-old Paul Chandler and his wife Rachel. The pair were heading to Tanzania in their yacht, when they were kidnapped by pirates late last October. In the video, both appear uninjured but frail and underweight. The couple claim that they’ve been separated and held in solitary confinement. They ask for help to pay for their ransom, saying they’re innocent people who’ve done no wrong. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband 배터리게임주소 recently said the government won’t get involved in any ransom payments, but, he says the government can’t stand in the way of private citizens. “They kept asking for money and...

(CBS/AP) LOS ANGELES – A judge wants to know whether Chris Brown is being a good neighbor. On Thursday, Superior 놀이터 검증 사이트 Court Judge Patricia Schnegg ordered prosecutors to get more details about neighborhood complaints about the R&B singer before his next Oct. 12 court hearing. Brown is on probation for a 2009 attack on then-girlfriend Rihanna. Pictures: Chris BrownPictures: Rihanna The judge said she had received several calls from Brown’s neighbors, but said she had not spoken directly to the people. She did not seem overly concerned about the complaints, but wanted more information about them and where Brown would complete his community service. According to TMZ, the singer’s neighbors claim he parks in handicapped spaces, blasts music at all hours and vandalizes the property. Brown had served 581 hours of community service in Virginia as of January, but needs to complete six months’ worth of community labor to complete the terms of his probation. He recently moved to West Hollywood, Calif., and his attorney Mark Geragos said Brown may ask to complete his service in California. Geragos downplayed the neighbor dispute, saying Brown was not at fault for some of the complaints. Geragos said West Hollywood city officials have dismissed more than $15,000 in parking citations Brown racked up for parking in a handicapped space at his condominium complex because those were the spaces assigned to...