Editor’s selection: Houthi attacks claim seafarer lives, celebrating International Women’s Day and George, the governance cop

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It has become fashionable in some quarters to champion the Houthis’ military campaign against “Western” shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden as a legitimate act of solidarity with the people suffering in Gaza. The tragic events of this week where three innocent seafarers were killed and others seriously wounded in a Houthi attack on a Barbados-flagged bulker should dispel such a sentiment.