A Maltese-registered cargo ship with a 22-member crew was yesterday seized by pirates off Somalia's coast. The Associated Press said the Greek-owned Saldanha was carrying coal to Slovenia but that a spokesman for the Shipping Ministry did not know its port of origin or the nationalities of the crew members.

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