Disaster● Elevated28m ago · Nov 15, 2026, 8:54 PM
Strait of Hormuz - Iranian Revolutionary Guards: Oil tanker sunk
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from Deutschlandfunk · Germany · Middle East
According to Iranian reports, a tanker carrying more than two million barrels of oil has sunk in the Strait of Hormuz.
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