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11.02.2021 / 09:19

Timeline: Yemen war began in 2014 when Houthis seized Sanaa

CAIRO – Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Wednesday targeted an airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia, causing a civilian plane on the tarmac to catch fire. The attack came just a few days after President Joe Biden announced the U.S. would end its support for the Saudi-led coalition’s war against the Houthi rebels.

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EXPLAINER: What US ending Saudi war support means for Yemen

DUBAI – President Joe Biden's announcement that the U.S. will end its support of a Saudi-led coalition's yearslong war against Yemen's Houthi rebels likely will increase pressure on the kingdom to end its campaign there. However, reaching an enduring peace for the Arab world's poorest country still remains in question.

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Civilians in Yemen caught in the middle as crisis worsens

United Nations is calling on Houthi leaders in Yemen to reopen the airport in the capital Sanaa to allow desperately needed humanitarian aid into the country.The Houthi administration suspended all UN and humanitarian flights into Sanaa on Sept. 9.According to Oxfam, that move has meant 200 metric tons of aid hasn’t been able to reach the war-ravaged country.“There are many, many people who are in dire need for such assistance,” says Abdulwasa Mohammed, a policy advisory for Oxfam in Yemen.

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Coronavirus: Deaths in Middle East pass 50,000

coronavirus passed 50,000 in the Middle East on Thursday, according to a count from The Associated Press based on official numbers provided by health authorities.Those numbers still may be an undercount, though, as testing in war-torn nations like Libya and Yemen remains extremely limited. Death rates for people of colour in U.S.

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Toronto Raptors star Fred VanVleet has emotional reunion with his kids

Toronto Raptors star point guard Fred VanVleet reunited with his children, Sanaa Marie and Fred Jr., on Monday after spending a month isolated in the NBA “bubble” due to the ongoing coroanvirus pandemic.

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UN chief urges pressure to bring Yemen's parties to talks

TANZANIA – The U.N. chief called for more pressure to be applied to Yemen's warring parties to come together to arrange a cease-fire in the war that has cost more than 10,000 lives and displaced 2 million people in the world's worst humanitarian disaster.Yemeni people are “suffering terribly” and COVID-19 is worsening their situation, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday in an interview with The Associated Press.

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War-torn Yemen reports first coronavirus deaths

Yemen reported multiple coronavirus infections and deaths linked to the disease for the first time yesterday and an official in the southern port of Aden said the number of cases was very likely to increase in the coming days.

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Saudi coalition urges Yemen separatists to honor Riyadh deal

DUBAI – A Saudi-led coalition mired in a yearslong war in Yemen on Monday urged Emirati-backed separatists to honor terms of a Riyadh peace deal and return control of Aden to the country's internationally recognized government.

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Yemen facing 'disaster' if virus spreads there, warn aid agencies

An outbreak of Covid-19 in Yemen could be a "disaster" and "catastrophic" for the war-torn country, according to aid agencies.

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Saudi-led ceasefire in Yemen begins, raising hopes for peace

A nationwide ceasefire in response to the global coronavirus outbreak went into effect in Yemen today, stirring hope for an end to the five-year-old war that has pushed millions to the brink of famine.

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