gCaptain22 Jul 2026Macro
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Ships continue to turn away from the southern end of the Red Sea, after Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels announced an embargo on Saudi exports through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a narrow channel that has become a lifeline for oil exports since the beginning of the US-Israeli war with Iran.