- Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community by Fogelman82 http://fogelman82.instablogs.com/ - Latest Popular Stories powered by Instablogs Community. http://www.instablogs.com/site-img/insta-slogo.gif Instablogs Community http://fogelman82.instablogs.com/ en-us Instascript 2.0 http://www.instablogs.com Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:50:40 +0000 France working to free yacht crew taken hostage off Somalia http://fogelman82.instablogs.com/entry/france-working-to-free-yacht-crew-taken-hostage-off-somalia/ http://fogelman82.instablogs.com/entry/france-working-to-free-yacht-crew-taken-hostage-off-somalia/ Fogelman

French authorities were hostageworking Saturday to free a luxury cruise yacht and its 30-member crew taken hostage by pirates off the coast of Somalia. “The defence and foreign affairs ministries are working to act as quickly as possible, I...

]]> French authorities were hostageworking Saturday to free a luxury cruise yacht and its 30-member crew taken hostage by pirates off the coast of Somalia.

“The defence and foreign affairs ministries are working to act as quickly as possible, I hope in the minutes or hours to come, to try to obtain the release of the hostages,” French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said late Friday.

“We have relatively large military means in the area,” he added.

The 32-cabin, four-deck yacht the Ponant, was sailing between Somalia and Yemen when it was boarded by pirates on Friday.

The three-masted yacht was carrying 30 crew but had no passengers on board at the time, according to a French military spokesman.

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President Nicolas Sarkozy’s rightwing party is bracing for a disappointing weekend in the final round of local polls expected largely to favour the left-wing oppostion. A look ahead to the consequences of Sunday’s election, which could see the...

]]> President Nicolas Sarkozy’s rightwing party is bracing for a disappointing weekend in the final round of local polls expected largely to favour the left-wing oppostion. A look ahead to the consequences of Sunday’s election, which could see the Socialists take several key regional outposts from Sarkozy’s UMP party.

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