Pirates from Somalia hijacked an oil tanker off the coast of Yemen on May 2 and have diverted it to Somalia’s waters, the authorities in Somalia said on May 3 , the third such incident in recent weeks. The hijacking is an embarrassment for the government in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, and suggests a resurgence of piracy at a time when the Red Sea, which borders western Yemen, has become an even more critical route for global shipping, given the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz by the war in Iran. Yemen’s coast guard said that unidentified people had…
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