Somali pirates are now holding six vessels and 146 foreign crew.

索马里海盗目前已劫持6艘船只及146名外籍船员。

youdao

The vessel, the Halifax, was attacked near Port Harcourt. There's no word on the condition of the foreign crew.

这艘名叫Halifax是在哈科特港附近被袭击的，尚无有关油轮上外国员工情况的报道。

youdao

"Knowing that the Americans will not destroy this German ship and its foreign crew, they [the approaching pirates] hope they can meet their friends on the lifeboat," the pirate said.

“获知美国不会摧毁这艘德国船只和船上的工作人员，这些驶去的海盗希望和船上的同伙碰面。”这名海盗说。

youdao

Besides the presidential couple, all other people on board the plane reportedly died, including the country's army chief, its deputy foreign minister, the Central Bank governor and scores of other officials, legislators and crew members.

VOA: standard.2010.04.10

Cruise ships, like their foreign-based crew members, are treated as fungible goods.

CNN: What cruise lines don't want you to know

These events are capable of bearing a different interpretation: that of a series of reactions, in which a skeleton foreign-policy crew responds to happenstance events in a way that reveals preferences, but stops short of laying out a clear new agenda.

ECONOMIST: Working out the world

Sea Shepherd argues that the US court has no jurisdiction over foreign-flagged vessels sailing in Australian waters with an international crew.

BBC: US court brands whale activists Sea Shepherd 'pirates'