YEMEN’s Houthis insurgents engaged in a civil war have seized a Bahamas-flagged 17,127-dwt Japanese NYK car carrier in the Red Sea while sailing south near Yemen, reports Japan Times. Yemeni cabinet secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said the ship had a crew of 25 from Bulgaria, Ukraine, the Philippines, Mexico and Romania. Qatar’s Aljazeera quoted the Houthis as saying they took the vessel in response to ‘heinous acts against our Palestinian brothers in Gaza and the West Bank’. The group had warned...
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