France will send two warships as part of the European Union’s naval mission Aspides in the Red Sea, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday. The French president said the “purely defensive, purely support mission” will be put together by European and non-European states. Maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, a key Gulf waterway through which a fifth of global crude passes, has all but halted since the war broke out on February 28.
A Dark Night: India-Bound Oil Tanker’s Daring Dash Through Strait Of Hormuz
Amid escalating tensions in the Middle East, a Liberian-flagged tanker, carrying crude oil from Saudi Arabia, has berthed at the Mumbai Port, becoming the first vessel to safely transit the…
