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...It is continuing to provide cover to ships transiting the Red Sea, for which insurance rates have jumped as the Houthi rebel group has attacked commercial ships....
...A Sandhurst-trained general, Prince Khaled was deputy defence minister when Riyadh launched a military intervention against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen in 2009....
...The US and UK have carried out military strikes against Iran-backed Houthi rebels, raising fears of a broader escalation of conflict in the region....
...Chart of the day Attacks by Houthis rebels in the Red Sea have added significant costs to container shipping, but it is important to put things into context, writes Chris Giles....
...Middle East conflict: US-led strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen have reignited fears of a wider conflict that could inflame price growth just as inflation appears to be subsiding....
...The Yemeni rebels have been gaining new fans across the Arab world for defending Palestinians despite increasing repression at home. We’re also reading . . ....
...US-owned cargo ship struck: The Iran-backed militants struck the US-owned Gibraltar Eagle in the Gulf of Aden yesterday, the first direct assault on a commercial vessel since US-led strikes against the Yemeni rebels...
...The marine insurance market has also seen a sharp rise in the cost of travelling through the Red Sea and Suez Canal as a result of a wave of attacks by Iran-backed Houthi rebels....
...China has called on “all relevant parties” to “ensure the safety of navigation in the Red Sea” as analysts warned that Houthi rebel attacks on commercial shipping threaten the world’s second-largest economy...
...The data from Clarksons, a London-based shipping services company, shows the scale of disruption to world trade by attacks on ships by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. Here are more findings....
...The US has repeatedly asked China to urge Tehran to rein in Iran-backed Houthi rebels attacking commercial ships in the Red Sea but has seen little sign of help from Beijing, according to American officials...
...Red Sea: Houthi militants detonated a one-way unmanned surface vessel in the Red Sea yesterday, marking a defiant escalation by the Iran-backed rebel group a day after the US threatened a military response...
...Lee Anderson and Brendan Clarke-Smith resigned as Tory deputy chairs before they were sacked in order to vote for the amendment, as did Jane Stevenson, formerly a ministerial aide....
...world’s second-largest container shipping fleet, yesterday became the latest to reroute its vessels around Africa via the Cape of Good Hope to avoid the Red Sea amid mounting attacks from Iranian-backed rebels...
...Lee Anderson and Brendan Clarke-Smith resigned before they were sacked, as they joined 58 other Tory MPs in backing a rebel amendment intended to ensure asylum seekers are sent to Rwanda without delay....
...Additional reporting by Ian Smith, Insurance Correspondent...
...More on the conflict: Shipowners have called for more military protection on maritime routes in the Middle East after attacks by Iran-backed Houthi rebels sparked fears of new disruptions to global trade...
...The Pentagon has convinced more than a half dozen allies to join a strengthened naval task force in the Red Sea amid mounting attacks by Iran-backed rebels on commercial shipping that have driven oil prices...
...Brendan Clarke-Smith, another Tory deputy chair, said he would be backing the rebel amendments....
...Boris Johnson imagines the “paleosceptic” Iain Duncan Smith, a former leader of the Tory party, as an RAF wing commander, flying sorties over Bremen....
...For now, the rebel players are making bullish noises about LIV’s long-term future, and are trying to stay focused on the green....
...A shutdown had appeared all but certain late on Friday after 21 Republican rebels voted against a different stop-gap funding measure proposed by McCarthy....
...Additional contributions from Grace Ramos and Gordon Smith...
...When Yemen’s Houthi rebels attacked a ship carrying 21,000 tonnes of fertiliser from Saudi Arabia to Bulgaria last month, they had a simple justification: they said the Rubymar was a “British ship”....
...André Pretorius, a partner at Herbert Smith Freehills working on competition law, said the football and skating cases were “comprehensive victories for those who want to challenge the extensive powers of...
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