Morning Brief: India — What Happened in the Last 24 Hours

Two commercial vessels carrying 22 Indian nationals have been hijacked by pirates in separate incidents off Yemen and Somalia, marking a dramatic resurgence of Somali piracy amid the West Asia conflict. The Eritrea-flagged oil tanker M.T. Sibu 1, with 16 Indians among 20 crew, was seized in the Gulf of Aden on August 20. A second Cameroon-flagged cargo ship, M/V LUTUF, carrying 6 Indians and allegedly transporting Turkish weapons to Mogadishu, was...