A recent article on CNN.com reported about a German warship helping a Japanese tanker fend off a pirate attack off the coast of Somalia. The tanker was on the way to Saudi Arabia.
The German warship Emden received a distress signal from the tanker Takayama saying that they were being "threatened by a boat with weapons and being fired upon." None of the people aboard the Takayama were harmed and the culprits right now seem to be Somalian pirates, since there have been other cases of this happening, including the seizure of the crew of a French yacht on April 4 who were only released after receiving the ransom they wanted.
Really, even though I know pirates still exist these days, it's always funny to hear about it in my opinion.
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