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Update 12:30. Russia’s defense minister has confirmed that the Arctic Sea, a Malta-registered ship found off Cape Verde 17 August was the victim of a pirate attack  24 July. Eight men including Russians, Estonians and Latvians have been arrested. BBC, CNN

The Arctic Sea, a cargo ship that loaded timber in Finland and was en route from the Baltic Sea to Bejaia, Algeria when it went missing, has been located in the Atlantic ocean off the Cape Verde islands. A Russian warship took the crew off the ship and is interrogating them to find out what happened. The crew is in good health, according to the Russian government.

The ship, with a 15-man Russian crew, was last heard from by British authorities 24 July as it went through the English Channel. The ship’s crew informed authorities then that it had been boarded by 8-12 armed masked men wearing uniforms with the word “police” on them. The men disembarked a day later in a rubber dinghy, the crew said. BBC, CNN, Moscow Times