Two ballistic missiles were fired from Houthi rebel-controlled Yemen toward a US warship in the Gulf of Aden, after the US Navy responded to a distress call from a commercial tanker that had been seized by armed individuals, the US military said Sunday.

The tanker, identified as the Central Park, had been carrying a cargo of phosphoric acid when its crew called for help that “they were under attack from an unknown entity,” the US Central Command said in a statement.

The USS Mason, a guided-missile destroyer, and allied ships from a counter-piracy task force that operates in the Gulf of Aden and off the coast of Somalia responded to the call for help and “demanded release of the vessel” upon arrival, Central Command said.

“Subsequently, five armed individuals debarked the ship and attempted to flee via their small boat,” said the statement posted on social media platform X.

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    11 months ago

    “Pastime”

    “Passtime” is both not a word and if it were it would mean something not what you are attending.

    While we are at it,

    It’s “Dog-eat-dog” not “doggy-dog” “Regardless” not “irregardless”

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      11 months ago

      A pastime is a hobby you do to pass time. Passtime and pass-time are both former (albeit now obsolete) spellings of the word.

      Don’t be so quick to scathingly correct when you don’t have a great grip on the term yourself.

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      11 months ago

      Fucking hate spelling Nazis on Lemmy. As a dyslexic person, it makes me slightly hate commenting.

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        11 months ago

        Use a fucking spell checker then. They are free. Stop being a lazy dyslexic.

        Fucking hate people who are too lazy to accomplish even the simplest of tasks.