Strait and narrowing: the Houthis' striking advance

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  The Economist.

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  Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

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  I'm Jason Palmer.

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  Today on the show,

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  how the swing voters from America's presidential election

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  are now swinging away from Donald Trump,

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  and how much nepotism matters in Hollywood.

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  But first,

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  In recent days,

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  another flashpoint has emerged,

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  or re-emerged, in the Middle East.

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  The Houthis, an Iran-backed Shia militia group,

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  has made striking advances along Yemen's western coast.

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  On Thursday, they captured the port city of Mocha,

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  then Perim Island in the middle of Bab al-Mandab,

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  a choke point into the Red Sea that's become an alternate oil route

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  since the blocking of the Strait of Hormuz.

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  And drones hit a major oil pipeline in Saudi Arabia.

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  The details are fuzzy,

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  but what's clear is that for the Houthis,

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