{"id":58076,"date":"2026-08-05T11:14:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T11:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/projectile-sinks-indian-flagged-ship-off-yemen-coast\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T11:14:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T11:14:31","slug":"projectile-sinks-indian-flagged-ship-off-yemen-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/projectile-sinks-indian-flagged-ship-off-yemen-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Projectile sinks Indian-flagged ship off Yemen coast"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Yemen’s transportation ministry, part of the Saudi-backed, internationally recognised government, accused \u200bthe Iran-backed Houthis of carrying out the \u200battack by using a boat laden with explosives, Reuters news agency reported.<\/p>\n

The group have not commented on the incident.<\/p>\n

The Houthis announced what it called a blockade on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea ports on 20 July.<\/p>\n

The UK Maritime Trade Operations \u2060agency has reported several attacks on ships in the region over the past week.<\/p>\n

Despite this, oil prices fell to a three-week low on Tuesday<\/a> as senior US officials raised hopes of a deal with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

In June, the US and Iran agreed on a 14-point Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to halt military operations and reopen the Strait, as well as to reach an agreement to end the war over the following 60 days.<\/p>\n

But three weeks after it was signed, US President Donald Trump declared the ceasefire “over” after Iranian attacks on ships in the strait, and US strikes in response.<\/p>\n

US officials said on Tuesday that talks have been progressing, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suggesting a deal to reopen the Strait could be agreed as soon as Tuesday or Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Iran has said it is not negotiating with the US – and has no plans to do so – and is instead talking to Oman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Yemen’s transportation ministry, part of the Saudi-backed, internationally recognised government, accused \u200bthe Iran-backed Houthis of carrying out the \u200battack by using a boat laden with explosives, Reuters news agency reported. The group have not commented on the incident. The Houthis announced what it called a blockade on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea ports on 20 July. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58078,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58076\/revisions\/58078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}