{"id":225154,"date":"2026-07-17T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/eu-bolsters-red-sea-mission-amid-reports-houthis-may-shut-bab-el-mandeb\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T12:23:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:23:00","slug":"eu-bolsters-red-sea-mission-amid-reports-houthis-may-shut-bab-el-mandeb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/eu-bolsters-red-sea-mission-amid-reports-houthis-may-shut-bab-el-mandeb\/","title":{"rendered":"EU bolsters Red Sea mission amid reports Houthis may shut Bab el-Mandeb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas visited Djibouti and signed a new security agreement to strengthen Europe&#8217;s naval presence, as reports say Tehran has asked the Houthis to shut the Bab el-Mandeb if the US strikes Iranian infrastructure, threatening a second global shipping chokepoint. <\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/07\/17\/eu-bolsters-red-sea-mission-amid-reports-houthis-may-shut-bab-el-mandeb\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas visited Djibouti and signed a new security agreement to strengthen Europe&#8217;s naval presence, as reports say Tehran has asked the Houthis to shut the Bab el-Mandeb if the US strikes Iranian infrastructure, threatening a second global shipping chokepoint. Read more at Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":225155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}