Seventeen Somali men detained at sea and handed over to Kenyan authorities on Wednesday have been charged with piracy by prosecutors. The men, the largest single group seized at sea, were arrested as they attacked the Egyptian-flagged Amira last month. The cache of weapons taken when the men were overpowered by US Marines were handed to prosectors as evidence...

The master and chief officer of the tanker Hebei Spirit have been freed following the widely expected ruling from South Korea?s Appeal Court that the men were not guilty of the charge of vessel destruction. The two Indian officers have been kept in South Korea for the past eighteen months, some of it in prison. However, the lesser charge of causing pollution...