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LONDON ? First the ship reported it had been attacked in waters off Sweden. Then it sailed with no apparent problems through one of the world's busiest shipping lanes. And then it disappeared.
The Arctic Sea, a Maltese-flagged cargo ship, was supposed to make port in Algeria with its cargo of timber on Aug. 4. More than a week later, there's no sign of the ship or its Russian crew.
Piracy has exploded off the coast of lawless Somalia ? but could this be an almost unheard of case of sea banditry in European waters?
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Odd that it has been missing a week and just shows up in the news an hour ago here....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090812/...n_missing_ship