Bloomberg: Pirates Capture Sakhalin-Bound Ship With British, Russian Crew

By Torrey Clark Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) — Pirates captured a tugboat off the coast of Somalia as it sailed from St. Petersburg to Russia’s Sakhalin Island, the U.K. Foreign & Commonwealth Office said. The captain of the Svitzer Korsakov is a British citizen and the crew mostly Russian nationals, the Foreign Office spokesman, who declined to be identified in accordance with government policy, said in a telephone interview today. “We are monitoring the situation and liaising with the Russian author

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