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Thursday May 7, 2026 Somali pirates have left a hijacked Emirati dhow loaded with lemons adrift after failing in an effort to use it as a floating launch pad for attacks on other ships, security sources in Somalia’s Puntland State state told AFP. The fate of the crew of Fahad-4 remains unclear. No information was immediately available on what happened to the vessel’s sailors after the ship was seized in late April by an 11-man pirate gang as it left Mogadishu with its citrus cargo. Amid a recent surge in similar seizures,…

‘Please leave us alone’: In Nuuk, generations of trust in the U.S. give way to fear For generations, many in Greenland saw the United States as a protector — the superpower that helped shield the Arctic island during World War II and maintained a reassuring presence ever since. In Nuuk today, that faith has curdled into fear as talk of an American move to seize the territory reverberates across the capital’s snowy streets. Tillie Martinussen still remembers her grandmother returning with Wrigley’s gum passed out by U.S.…