Apo Hikers Apo Hikers Apo Hikers is an adventure story arc of the Philippine comic strip series "Pugad Baboy", created by Pol Medina Jr. and originally published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer. This particular story arc lasts 62 strips long. In 1999, the story arc was reprinted in "Pugad Baboy XI", the eleventh book compilation of the comic strip series. The story arc begins in Kidapawan City, North Cotabato, which sits at the foot of Mount Apo, the highest mountain peak in the Philippines. Staff monitoring the volcano are alarmed when they feel tremors shaking the station. Thinking that Mount Apo is
Piracy off the coast of Somalia illegal fishing off Somalia after the 2013 decline in piracy, fishing vessels became targets in a few incidents in 2015. In March two Iranian vessels and in November one Iranian and a Thai vessel were attacked. The tanker "Aris 13", which had been carrying fuel from Djibouti to Mogadishu, was hijacked off the coast of Somalia on 13 March 2017. This was the first reported hijacking of a large commercial vessel in five years. Two skiffs approached the tanker and boarded the vessel off the northern coast of Somalia. Eight Sri Lankan crew members were aboard at the time. After