News Broadcast - 12 August 2026

Here is the news for Wednesday, the twelfth of August, twenty twenty-six, read by Cedric Fairweather, for the National Wireless Service.We begin this evening in the Gulf of Oman, where American forces have taken direct and forceful action against a vessel accused of running the blockade maintained around the Persian coast. United States Central Command has confirmed that one of its helicopters fired upon a cargo ship flying the flag of Panama, striking the vessel's engine room with the...