{
  "id": 6760845,
  "title": "Houthis Advance on Bab al-Mandeb as Saudi Oil Route Comes Under Threat",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/11/houthis-advance-on-bab-al-mandeb-as-saudi-oil-route-comes-under-threat",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-11T12:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "OilPrice",
    "slug": "oilprice",
    "url": "https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Houthis-Advance-on-Bab-al-Mandeb-as-Saudi-Oil-Route-Comes-Under-Threat.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict Yemen's Houthis captured the Red Sea port of Mocha on Thursday, taking the approach to the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, which connects the Red Sea (and the Suez Canal, beyond it) to the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. Bab al-Mandeb is 12 miles wide and carries 6.2 million barrels of oil and refined products a day (plus ~80% of the LNG shipped north to Europe). Houthi…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}