Piracy at Sea

Ships risking Houthi attacks must pay high insurance premiums, while vessels avoiding the region lose time going around Africa.

Attacks on two dozen ships since November are forcing shipping lines to figure out whether and when to skip the Suez Canal and send vessels on longer voyages around Africa.

The United States says the episode is unrelated to regional tensions, though it is still investigating the firing of two missiles at the Navy ship involved in the rescue.

As terrorists move south through the Sahel, the Pentagon’s annual Flintlock exercise reinforced the rule of law in a region roiled by coups.

In his last book, the iconoclastic anthropologist David Graeber considers evidence that maritime outlaws created utopian political communities on the island in the Indian Ocean.

A naval commander killed centuries ago has come back to life — artistically, at least — thanks to the persistence of a New York art dealer.

Drones carried out the attack on a tanker managed by an Israeli-led firm, killing two people, officials said — apparently the latest in a series of maritime clashes between Iran and Israel.

El colapso económico había golpeado a una orgullosa zona pesquera. Entonces joyas de oro y plata comenzaron a aparecer misteriosamente en su playa y a aliviar el sufrimiento por la crisis.

Venezuela’s economic meltdown had pummeled a proud fishing village. Then jewelry started mysteriously surfacing on its beach, easing the pain of an economic crisis.

Se han registrado decenas de ataques en aguas mexicanas, lo que desborda los esfuerzos de las sobrecargadas fuerzas de seguridad del país y enciende las alarmas en Estados Unidos.