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UN agency says it pauses Hormuz ship evacuation initiative after vessel attacked

al-monitorThursday, June 25, 2026
UN agency says it pauses Hormuz ship evacuation initiative after vessel attacked

LONDON, June 25 (Reuters) - The United Nations’ shipping agency on Thursday paused an evacuation effort to get hundreds of stranded ships and thousands of seafarers 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. This vessel did not transit under IMO’s evacuation framework," Arsenio Dominguez, Secretary-General of the U.N.'s International Maritime O

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