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France Deploys Aircraft Carrier to Strait of Hormuz for Shipping Protection Mission

The Charles de Gaulle transited the Suez Canal on Wednesday en route to the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden as part of a joint UK-France effort to protect merchant vessels in the blockaded Strait of Hormuz. The deployment follows an attack on a French-owned commercial ship that injured…

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