{"id":11259,"date":"2019-11-19T06:27:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T21:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/18\/yemens-houthi-rebels-hijack-towboat-with-apparent-saudi-link"},"modified":"2019-11-19T06:27:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T21:27:50","slug":"yemens-houthi-rebels-hijack-towboat-with-apparent-saudi-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11259","title":{"rendered":"Yemen&#8217;s Houthi rebels hijack towboat with apparent Saudi link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boat pulling oil rig said to be South Korean, but tracking site says home port is Jeddah<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/yemen\">Yemen<\/a>\u2019s Houthi rebels have hijacked a boat towing a South Korean drilling rig, a Riyadh-led coalition said on Monday, with a global shipping tracker calling it a Saudi-flagged vessel.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s incident in the Red Sea follows a lull in Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia as one Riyadh official said the kingdom had established an \u201copen channel\u201d with the Iran-backed rebels.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/18\/yemens-houthi-rebels-hijack-towboat-with-apparent-saudi-link\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boat pulling oil rig said to be South Korean, but tracking site says home port is JeddahYemen\u2019s Houthi rebels have hijacked a boat towing a South Korean drilling rig, a Riyadh-led coalition said on Monday, with a global shipping tracker calling it a Sa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[212,398,222,42,943],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-saudi-arabia","category-south-korea","category-world-news","category-yemen"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11265,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11259\/revisions\/11265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}