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UK Special Forces team allegedly deployed to Yemen to hunt suspects in Mercer Street tanker attack -- RT World News

Aug 09, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    88% Very Conservative

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  • Policy Leaning

    88% Very Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -20% Negative

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41% : The soldiers would also rely on local handlers, who received payment from the Foreign Office, the paper said, adding that London apparently believes that Iran-backed Houthi rebels carried out the attack with support from Tehran.
39% : In Yemen, a Saudi-led coalition is supporting the Yemeni government of the president Mansur Hadi against the Shiite Houthi rebels backed by Iran.
36% : Israel's defense minister said earlier this week that his nation is ready to strike Iran as tensions in the region remain high.
34% : Iran repeatedly denied the accusations and vowed a "strong" response to any threats, as the UK and the US stated they were working on a "response" against Tehran, but stopped short of officially announcing any specific steps.
31% : London, Washington and Tel Aviv accused Tehran of being behind the attack on an Israeli-operated tanker that claimed the life of a British security guard and a Romanian captain.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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