French Ship Passes Strait of Hormuz

The transit occurred after French President Emmanuel Macron criticized the Trump administration's strategy and 'inelegant' remarks about his wife.

While thousands of other vessels remain stranded in the Persian Gulf, the French-owned ship made a safe passage monitored by international tracking data.

South Korea and France have since announced they will work together on a diplomatic initiative to fully reopen the strategic waterway.

This development suggests a potential rift in the Western alliance as individual nations seek to secure their own energy supplies.