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- 1EU Calls for More Warships to Secure Red Sea Shipping▼EU Needs More Ships for Red Sea; European Navies Adjust Hormuz Deployments
European Union officials are pressing for additional naval vessels to protect commercial shipping in the Red Sea, where attacks by Houthi forces have disrupted global trade routes. At the same time, European navies are reassessing and adjusting their deployments in the Strait of Hormuz, signalling a wider strain on maritime security resources across Middle Eastern waters.
- 2Egypt backs Trump's Gaza plan amid Mediterranean war drill with France, Italy and Greece▼Africa’s most powerful military and Middle East’s strongest back Trump’s Gaza plan after Egypt joins France, Italy and Greece for major Mediterranean war drill
Egypt has endorsed Donald Trump's Gaza plan, with its military — widely ranked as Africa's most powerful — also joining France, Italy and Greece for a major Mediterranean naval exercise. The endorsement adds a key Arab state to supporters of the proposal, and the joint drill with European navies signals deepening security coordination around the eastern Mediterranean at a sensitive moment for Gaza diplomacy.