After the US-operated container vessel, Maersk Alabama, is seized off the coast of Somalia--about 400 miles (645km) east of Mogadishu--by Somali pirates, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announces a four-point plan to combat piracy which includes working with international
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The Security Council, in a presidential statement, condemns the violence in Mogadishu and calls on extremists groups to end their
14 Dec 2009