Iran-backed Houthi rebels take over a strategic port city in Yemen, posing a new threat to shipping

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Mokha, is about 80 kilometres from the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a strategic waterway between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden through which about 12% of the world's oil and other goods are shipped…

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