Pressure Shifts Pirates Toward Red Sea

NATO officials say Somali pirates are shifting operations to the southern Red Sea due to pressure by international naval forces in the region, reports the Stars and Stripes.

An attack on a chemical tanker earlier this month in the Bab el Mandeb straits, between Djibouti and Yemen, was the first successful hijacking in the southern part of the Red Sea, according to the International Maritime Bureau (IMB).

The shift is taking pirates from the Internationally Recognized Transit...