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Sea piracy worldwide dropped 28 percent in the first quarter of 2012, attacks falling sharply in Somalia's waters because of international naval patrols.
The Royal Thai Navy has officially received the first Endurance-class landing platform dock ship, HTMS Angthong (LPD-791) at a naval base in Chon Buri, Thailand.
After more than a year of negotiations, U.S. and Afghan officials reached an agreement Sunday confirming the United States’ commitment to Afghanistan for a decade after its formal troop withdrawal in 2014.
Iran's military has begun to build a copy of a U.S. surveillance drone captured last year after breaking the software encryption, Iranian media reported on Sunday.
China and Russia began their first joint naval exercises on Sunday, focusing on air defense, anti-submarine tactics, search and rescue, as well as joint efforts to rescue hijacked vessels.
As a warning against future North Korean provocations, South Korea has announced it has developed a cruise missile capable of immediately striking anywhere within the communist country.
Authorities in the southern Philippines are investigating a collision involving a Navy special operations boat that left a local fisherman dead, according to reports.
The Navy ratchets up its drug war May 1 with screening for two families of drugs — benzodiazepines and hydrocodones — that include commonly abused prescription medicines such as Valium, Xanax and Vicodin.