'Only pirates do this,' a general said after China's Coast Guard, armed with bladed weapons, clashed with Philippine boats in the South China Sea

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A China Coast Guard vessel and China Coast Guard personnel on a rubber boat.
This photo taken on February 15, 2024, shows an aerial view of a China Coast Guard vessel and China Coast Guard personnel on a rubber boat over Scarborough Shoal in the disputed South China Sea.

JAM STA ROSA / AFP

A Yemeni influencer nicknamed 'Timhouthi Chalamet' vanished from TikTok after posting a tour of a captured cargo ship

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Rashid Al Haddad, or TimHouthi Chalamet
A young Yemeni man named Rashid Al Haddad is earning the nickname "Timhouthi Chalamet."

Rashid Al Haddad/TikTok

US Navy foils gunmen attempting to hijack an Israel-linked tanker off Yemen

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A tanker sails off the coast of Aden, Yemen.
In an undated photo released by Zodiac Maritime, the tanker Central Park is seen.

Zodiac Maritime

This "Pirates of the Caribbean"-inspired home has a mast and sail in the living room and ceilings painted like the night sky — see inside

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The living room in pirate ship house.
The living room with its handmade mast and sails.

Courtesy of Empire Home Tours.

Modern day pirate hunters operate in the 'wild, wild West' as they track countless vessels smuggling 'arms, drugs, and people' on the open seas, former Naval admiral says

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The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Farragut (DDG 99) passes by the smoke from a suspected pirate skiff it disabled March 31, 2010 in the Gulf of Aden.
The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Farragut (DDG 99) passes by the smoke from a suspected pirate skiff it disabled March 31, 2010 in the Gulf of Aden.

Photo by Mass Communications Specialist 1st Class Cassandra Thompson/U.S.

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