News / Tension grows amid calls for UN to step in to stop attacks on ships

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Calls from around the world are mounting for the United Nations to step in and address the ongoing attacks against commercial vessels transiting the Red Sea.

And at an emergency meeting convened yesterday by the UN Security Council, governments including the UK and the US warned that the Houthis and Iran would “face consequences” should the attacks persist.

Shortly before the council met, a joint statement from the governments of Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, ...