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Freed Yacht Couple Opens Up About Traumatic Year

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 01:45:03 CST

The retired British couple who was released yesterday after a year held hostage by pirates who seized them as they sailed the ocean in their yacht opened up about their ordeal, saying one of their most difficult parts was being severely beaten when they refused to be separated during their...

Pirates Free UK Couple After a Year

Polly Davis Doig — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 09:01:21 CST

After being held captive more than a year on their 38-foot yacht in the Indian Ocean, Somali pirates have set free a British couple early today, ending one of the longest hostage situations off East Africa. Paul and Rachel Chandler appeared thin but relaxed in a small ceremony in their...

British Pirate Captives Beg for Help

Mary Papenfuss — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:11:45 CST

A British couple abducted by pirates as they sailed off Africa are pleading for help before they're killed. Rachel Chandler, seized three months ago and held separately from her husband, Paul, in Somalia, begged for aid in a phone call to British TV after the pirates vowed to kill them...

Somali Pirates Demand $7M Ransom for UK Couple

M. Morris — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:02:15 CDT

The British couple abducted from their yacht at gunpoint are being held for $7 million ransom, a rep for the Somali pirates who kidnapped them said today. Paul and Rachel Chandler went missing a week ago in the Indian Ocean. "NATO operations had a lot of negative impact here," the...

UK Yacht Couple 'OK' With Somali Pirates

Will McCahill — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:11:12 CDT

A British couple taken from their yacht by Somali pirates say they’re in good condition and are being held aboard a hijacked container ship. “We are well and being looked after OK,” Paul Chandler, 59, told the BBC by phone today; he also spoke to British channel ITN, saying the...