The United Nations’ shipping agency on Thursday said it would pause an evacuation effort to get hundreds of stranded ships out through the Strait of Hormuz after a vessel was attacked in the Gulf of Oman.“I have been informed of an attack today in the Gulf of Oman on a vessel which passed through the Strait of Hormuz,” Arsenio Dominguez, Secretary-General of the U
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