The oil and chemical tanker Acers was hit by multiple projectiles in the Gulf off Qatar's north coast, the UK Maritime Trade Operations said. Casualties were reported on the vessel. The agency also noted a rise in attacks on vessels in the nearby Strait of Hormuz.
BBC News – World Casualties have been reported on the vessel, identified by a maritime intelligence firm as the oil and chemical tanker, Acers.
BBC News – World Casualties have been reported on the vessel, identified by a maritime intelligence firm as the oil and chemical tanker, Acers.
NYTimes – US People in the Gulf are preparing for bad weather this weekend after Isaias intensified into a hurricane. And, a judge has ordered Christa Pike's failed execution evidence be preserved.
NYTimes – World Signs were removed from the British consulate in East Jerusalem as an Israeli deadline to close the facility loomed, but UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said the building will remain open as an independent UK mission serving Palestinians. Israel had ordered the closure in response to UK sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai have been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their discoveries about how chemical reactions can produce an overwhelming excess of one mirror-image form of a molecule. Their work on asymmetric organic synthesis has aided understanding of how medicines work and helped pharmaceutical development.
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