Dec 23rd, 2008 · For a week, NPR joined the French warship Premier Maitre L'Her, which has been protecting merchant ships on the vast seas of the Gulf of Aden. The ship has been searching for suspicious vessels, part of an effort to stem a piracy epidemic.
Dec 1st, 2008 · The increased piracy off the Somali coast is threatening to reduce traffic through the Suez Canal, one of Egypt's economic mainstays. Some shipping companies are already ordering some vessels to travel around the horn of Africa to avoid the pirate-infested waters leading to the canal. Egypt is at risk of losing billions of dollars in revenue.
Aug 25th, 2008 · Pirates have been capturing ships and kidnapping crews in the Gulf of Aden — four of them in the past week along. So far, a U.N.-backed naval fleet seems unable to stop them.
Aug 17th, 2008 · All summer, Captain Fatty Goodlander has been sending Weekend Edition Sunday stories from his travels on board his boat, The Wild Card. In this report, Goodlander has an encounter with pirates.
Jul 25th, 2008 · The myth of the pirate — that swashbuckler standing on the bow of a boat with a wooden leg and a parrot on his shoulder — can be irresistible, but these books prove that the truth behind the fabled eyepatch is infinitely more interesting.
Apr 25th, 2008 · Pirates off the coast of Somalia, and in other places around the world, cost the shipping industry billions of dollars each year. Renee Montagne talks with Andrew Lehr about how these groups function. Lehr is an expert on sea piracy and terrorism who lectures at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
Oct 30th, 2007 · In Europe, American television shows are big crowd pleasers. But they don't come out until at least six months after they're released here. That's plenty of time for video piracy to thrive. Now TV networks in Europe and the U.S. are joining together to fight back -- via the Internet.
Sep 2nd, 2007 · Lead paint and toxic toys have put Chinese manufactures in the news recently. But a century and a half ago, the United States carried a similar poor reputation for shoddy products and intellectual piracy.