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Red Sea ship diversions unsettle vessel charter, bunker markets
* Shell, MOL, others halt all transits Sopuruchi Onwuka Continued Pirate attacks by unyielding Yemeni Houthi rebels on international shipping lines and the deterring airstrikes by the United States and the United Kingdom have made crossing canals and seas in…
Yemeni govt invites ground offensive to neutralize Houthi rebels
The deputy leader of Yemen’s presidential council said Thursday that its military forces need foreign assistance to launch a ground operation that would back US and UK air strikes against Huthi rebels. Aidarus al-Zubaidi, vice president of the Presidential Leadership…
France leads 23 nation ‘artillery coalition’ to rearm Ukraine
Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports France, the United States and other Western allies agreed in Paris on Thursday to rearm Ukraine with fresh military supplies as war front signals showed that the Russia is having upper hand in the lingering…
Over 52,000 Nigerian Christians killed, 14 million forced into exile
Sopuruchi Onwuka International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) has declared that unrestrained Islamic insurgency and banditry in Nigeria have led to killing of over 52,000 Christians across the country. The Nigeria-based nonprofit group also stated more…
Iran stokes Middle East tension with strikes on Iraq, Syria
Iran fired missiles late Monday at what it claimed were Israeli “spy headquarters” near the U.S. Consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil, and at targets linked to the extremist group Islamic State in northern Syria. Four civilians were…
Iran seizes oil tanker in Gulf of Oman
Sopuruchi Onwuka Iran declared on Thursday that its navy seized an oil tanker in the waters between Iran and Oman, according to foreign media sources. Iran’s state-run news agency IRNA confirming the seizure after the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations…
US, Britain hit Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen
The U.S. and British militaries bombed more than a dozen sites used by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen on Thursday, in a massive retaliatory strike using warship- and submarine-launched Tomahawk missiles and fighter jets, U.S. officials said. According to various…
