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Houthi Missile Attack Kills Three Crew Members In Yemen Rebels’ First Fatal Assault On Shipping
DUBAI, UAE — Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched a missile attack on a commercial ship in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday, killing three crew members and forcing survivors to evacuate the vessel, according to the U.S. Navy. It was the first lethal blow in the Iranian-backed group’s campaign against Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The attack on the Barbados-flagged, Liberian-owned bulk carrier True Confidence exacerbates the violence on a critical maritime corridor that connects Asia and the Middle East to Europe, disrupting global transportation. The Houthis have been attacking since November, and the United States launched an airstrike campaign in January that has yet to stop them.
Meanwhile, Iran announced Wednesday that it will detain a $50 million cargo of Kuwaiti crude oil for American energy company Chevron Corp. from a tanker it captured nearly a year ago. It is the latest twist in a long-running shadow war in the Middle East’s waterways that began before the Houthi attacks.
Houthi Missile Attack Kills Three Crew Members In Yemen Rebels’ First Fatal Assault On Shipping
According to the U.S. Central Command, an anti-ship ballistic missile launched from a Houthi-controlled region in Yemen struck the True Confidence, causing serious damage. In addition to the three deaths, at least four crew members were injured, three of them are in severe condition.
Officials claim that after men claiming to be from the Yemeni military radioed the ship, the incident took place. Since the commencement of their operations, the Houthis have been hailing ships over the radio in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, leading observers to believe the rebels aim to seize the vessels.
Following the missile strike, the crew abandoned the ship and launched lifeboats. A US warship and the Indian navy were on the scene, attempting to aid with rescue efforts. How many crew members were on board at the time was not apparent.
The United Nations urged the Houthis “to cease all attacks against international shipping in the Red Sea,” according to U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric, expressing significant concern about the ongoing attacks, especially the most recent incident in which the crew’s status is unclear.
Dujarric says the attacks endanger “property, life, and the ecology of the area.”
Matthew Miller, spokesman for the State Department in Washington, denounced the attack. “We continue to observe these irresponsible attacks with no consideration for the safety of innocent citizens traveling across the Red Sea. And now they’ve killed innocent bystanders, which is regrettable and tragic,” he told reporters.
Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, a Houthi military spokesman, claimed the attack in a prepared statement, claiming that missile fire ignited the vessel. He stated that the rebels’ strikes will end only when the “siege on the Palestinian people in Gaza is lifted.”
Throughout the Israel-Hamas battle, the rebels have routinely targeted ships in the Red Sea and nearby waterways, but no crew members have been killed as of Wednesday. At least one of the ships was carrying supplies intended for Iran, the Houthis’ primary patron, and another was carrying aid to Houthi-controlled territory.
Houthi Missile Attack Kills Three Crew Members In Yemen Rebels’ First Fatal Assault On Shipping
Despite more than a month and a half of US-led airstrikes, Houthi rebels have continued to undertake substantial attacks. They include last month’s attack on the Rubymar, a cargo ship carrying fertilizer that sank on Saturday after drifting for many days, as well as the downing of an American drone worth tens of millions of dollars.
It needed to be clarified why the Houthis targeted True Confidence. However, it was formerly owned by Oaktree Capital Management, a Los Angeles-based fund that financed vessels in instalments. Oaktree has declined to comment.
Meanwhile, a separate Houthi attack on Tuesday appeared to target the USS Carney, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer that has been involved in the American operation against the rebels. According to Central Command, the Carney fired down bomb-carrying drones and one anti-ship ballistic missile. Saree recognized the attack as well.
The United States later launched an airstrike, destroying three anti-ship missiles and three bomb-carrying drone boats, according to Central Command.
The Houthis have not provided an assessment of the damage done in the American-led attacks that began in January, but they have stated that at least 22 of their fighters have been killed. A civilian has reportedly been slain.
Separately, the U.S. Treasury imposed further penalties against a Houthi financier and the expeditionary Quds Force of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, which provides arms to the rebels.
The Houthis have controlled Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, since 2014. Since 2015, they have been fighting a Saudi-led coalition in a long-running conflict.
Meanwhile, the Indian Navy posted a video of sailors from the INS Kolkata extinguishing a fire on the MSC Sky II, which the Houthis targeted in the Gulf of Aden on Monday. The Mediterranean Shipping Co., based in Switzerland, said the missile struck the ship while it was heading from Singapore to Djibouti. Nobody was wounded.
In a separate statement, the state-run Mizan news agency for the judiciary confirmed the seizure of crude oil aboard the Advantage Sweet. At the time, Iran claimed that the Advantage Sweet crashed with another ship but provided no evidence.
Houthi Missile Attack Kills Three Crew Members In Yemen Rebels’ First Fatal Assault On Shipping
The court order for the seizure stated a completely different cause for the confiscation. Mizan said it was part of a court ruling over U.S. sanctions that prohibited the importation of a Swedish drug used to treat patients with epidermolysis bullosa, a rare hereditary illness that creates blisters all over the body and in the eyes. It did not reconcile the many causes of the seizure.
The Advantage Sweet was in the Persian Gulf in late April, but its path through the Strait of Hormuz, which transports one-fifth of all traded oil, revealed no abnormal behavior. Iran has made claims in previous seizures that ultimately fell apart when it became evident that Tehran was attempting to use the capture as a bargaining point in negotiations with Western states.
Chevron, based in San Ramon, California, said Wednesday that the Advantage Sweet was “seized under false pretenses” and that the firm “has not had any direct communication with Iran over the seizure of the vessel.”
“Chevron has not been permitted access to the vessel and considers the cargo a total loss due to Iran’s illegal actions,” the company said in a statement. “We now consider the cargo the responsibility of the Iranian government.”
Ship seizures and explosions have wreaked havoc on the region since 2019. The incidents began after then-President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the United States from Iran’s nuclear agreement with other powers.
SOURCE – (AP)
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BC Supreme Court Stops MAID Death of Woman from Alberta
A Supreme Court Judge in British Columbia has given a rare, last-minute injunction prohibiting a woman from receiving medical assistance in dying (Maid) after physicians in her home province refused to approve the request.
The lady’s common-law partner received the injunction, which prohibits Vancouver physician Ellen Wiebe or any other medical professional from “causing the death” of an Alberta woman within the next 30 days.
The court judgment came as the country remains embroiled in a contentious debate over extending medical assistance to dying or Maid.
Earlier this week, Quebec became the first province to enable people to make the decision years in advance, in breach of federal legislation.
While official records show that the vast majority of people who use Maid have terminal diseases, critics are concerned that a tiny but growing proportion of cases reflect poverty and social inequity, which drives people to end their lives.
According to the Canadian Press, the injunction in the British Columbia case comes after the woman’s partner filed a notice of civil claim alleging Wiebe negligently approved the procedure for a patient who does not legally qualify and that administering Maid would constitute wrongful death and possibly a criminal offense.
According to court documents, the 53-year-old lady flew from Alberta to BC to obtain Maid after doctors in her native province refused to approve it. The woman had requested Maid, alleging akathisia, a movement disorder associated with altering doses of psychotropic or antipsychotic medication.
The woman had “distressing side effects” after reducing her dose of a bipolar illness medication.
Symptoms include “an inner sense of terror all day long, the inability to sleep at night, nightmares, the inability to lie down during the day due to a feeling of falling, the inability to sit or remain still suicidal thoughts”.
According to court records, the woman and her partner were assured that the disease was curable and that the symptoms would resolve within a few months. As a result, doctors denied her request for assisted death.
The woman found Wiebe and connected with her via Zoom. “At the end of the first meeting, Dr Wiebe approved [the woman] for Maid,” the allegations state. Wiebe, a clinical professor at the University of British Columbia, has emerged as a staunch supporter of Maid, claiming that current laws recognize “basic human rights.”
According to the British Columbia lawsuit, Wiebe failed to consult with the woman’s doctors or obtain the patient’s complete medical information. Instead, Wiebe is accused of email reviewing only a fraction of the woman’s medical records.
In Canada, the euthanasia framework comprises two “tracks” – one for terminal diseases and another when “natural death is not reasonably foreseeable”. Applicants with a medical condition involving mental illness will be ineligible until at least March 2027.
Federal law requires a second, independent doctor to accept a request for treatment when the petitioner has a chronic, irreversible physical condition. The complaint claims that it did not occur in the case of the Alberta woman.
British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Simon Coval stated in his decision that the woman looked to have a mental health illness rather than a medical one. He said he allowed the plea since the case was “clearly a situation of extreme irreparable harm” if she carried out her plan to die on October 27th.
Justice Coval recognized that the order “is a severe intrusion” on the woman’s personal and medical autonomy.
“I can only imagine the pain she has been experiencing and I recognize that this injunction will likely make that worse,” stated the lawyer.
However, he questioned if the Maid standards were correctly applied, given that her condition “may not only be remediable, but remediable relatively quickly”.
Source: The Canadian Press
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RCMP Take Down Fentanyl “Super Lab” in British Columbia
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has dismantled the largest and most sophisticated illicit drug “super lab” in Canadian history, seizing a record quantity of illegal firearms, synthetic drugs, and precursor chemicals.
The RCMP believes organized crime was behind the operation, which involved the mass production and distribution of fentanyl and methamphetamine throughout Canada and worldwide.
Last Monday, officers executed search warrants on a drug lab in Falkland, British Columbia, and related facilities in Surrey, Metro Vancouver.
The RCMP posted several images of the operation, including officers in protective suits taking objects from the “super lab.”
They also found a total of 89 firearms, including handguns, AR-15-style rifles and submachine guns — “many of which were loaded and ready to be used.” They also discovered minor explosive devices, ammo, silencers, high-capacity magazines, body armor, and $500,000 Canadian (US$359,000) in cash.
According to police investigators, Mr. Gaganpreet Randhawa has been arrested and is facing several narcotics and firearms-related crimes.
“This is undoubtedly a major blow to the transnational organized crime groups involved, and a great step towards ensuring the safety of Canadians, and the international community,” said Jillian Wellard, spokesperson for the RCMP.
According to the Canadian authorities, fentanyl is a common constituent in many of the lethal illicit substances that killed approximately 48,000 people in Canada between January 2016 and March 2024.
The bust comes just two weeks after Canadian police announced arrests related to another multinational organized crime gang.
The RCMP said it had worked with the FBI for over a year to target a Mexican cartel-linked criminal network that had been moving large amounts of methamphetamine and cocaine from Central and South America via the United States to Canada and overseas.
Canadian authorities said that the network had also been commissioning murders across North America and laundering significant amounts of money.
The alleged leader of that network, Canadian Ryan Wedding, remains at large and is wanted by the United States and Canada, authorities said.
Police reported seizing 54 kilograms of fentanyl, “massive” amounts of precursor chemicals, 390 kilos of methamphetamine, and smaller amounts of cocaine, MDMA, and cannabis.
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McDonald’s E. Coli Case Count Rises, Officials Suspect Onion Grower
Washington—Federal officials confirmed new cases of E. coli illness among McDonald’s customers on Wednesday, as investigators looking for the outbreak’s origins discovered an “onion grower of interest” in Washington state.
The Food and Drug Administration reported that 90 people in 13 states have become ill as a result of the incident, up from 75 at the end of last week. The number of individuals hospitalized rose by five to 27. A single death has been linked to the outbreak.
Officials have stated that raw, slivered onions on McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers are the most likely source of E. coli. McDonald’s stated the onions came from a single supplier, Taylor Farms of California. The company has since recalled the yellow onions it distributed to McDonald’s and other restaurant chains.
McDonald’s E. Coli Case Count Rises As Federal Officials Inspect An Onion Grower
The FDA announced Wednesday that it has begun checking Taylor Farm’s processing facility in Colorado Springs and an “onion grower of interest” in Washington state. It did not name the grower.
According to the FDA, more than 80% of persons with E. coli who federal investigators interviewed reported consuming McDonald’s dishes with fresh, slivered onions.
McDonald’s announced last week that onions from its Colorado Springs facility were supplied to about 900 restaurants, including several in transit hubs like airports. After tests determined that beef patties were not the source of the epidemic, the restaurant chain said it would resume serving Quarter Pounders at hundreds of its locations.
McDonald’s E. Coli Case Count Rises As Federal Officials Inspect An Onion Grower
The kind of E. coli causing the outbreak can cause deadly diarrhea, renal failure, and other serious complications. It causes over 74,000 infections in the United States each year, resulting in over 2,000 hospitalizations and 61 fatalities, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
According to FDA officials, the current risk of sickness “is low because the onions have been recalled and should no longer be available.” They highlighted that all recorded incidents happened before Taylor Farms and McDonald’s took the onions off the market.
SOURCE | AP
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