A Malta-flagged tanker heading from Sikka, India, to Durban, South Africa, is targeted by suspected Somali pirates.

A European Union anti-piracy force has reached the Maltese-flagged merchant tanker Hellas Aphrodite, which pirates had boarded off Somalia on Thursday, the EU naval mission Operation Atalanta said.

Somali militants attacked a hotel near the country's presidential palace on Monday, killing 32 people, including six members of the national Parliament. The attackers, which included two suicide ...