{"id":8842,"date":"2024-01-04T17:31:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T04:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=8842"},"modified":"2024-01-04T17:31:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T04:31:07","slug":"nz-joins-call-for-end-to-red-sea-attacks-on-container-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=8842","title":{"rendered":"NZ joins call for end to Red Sea attacks on container ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand and 11 other countries have issued a joint statement calling for an immediate end to attacks on container ships in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n<p>There have been more than 20 attacks by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The nations, including the United States, Bahrain, Denmark, Germany and the United Kingdom, said the attacks were a direct threat to global trade.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 15 percent of global seaborne trade passes through the Red Sea, which leads to the Suez Canal, linking the Indian Ocean with the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/world\/505883\/us-sinks-3-ships-kills-10-after-houthi-red-sea-attack\">the US sank three Houthi boats and killed 10 rebels<\/a>. The militants had attacked a Maersk container vessel, prompting the global shipping giant to temporarily pause sailing in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The Houthis said the Maersk vessel failed to heed warning calls, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>The group, based in Yemen, was trying to disrupt shipping linked to Israel, which has in recent months launched an all-out assault on Gaza, following Hamas&#8217; deadly attack in early October.<\/p>\n<p>Ships that cannot travel through the Suez Canal were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/world\/505059\/red-sea-attacks-force-rerouting-of-vessels-disrupting-supply-chains\">forced to go around Africa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>VIA RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand and 11 other countries have issued a joint statement calling for an immediate end to attacks on container ships in the Red Sea. There have been more than 20 attacks by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in recent weeks. The nations, including the United States, Bahrain, Denmark, Germany and the United Kingdom, said the attacks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8844,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8842\/revisions\/8844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}