Yemen News
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Geneva -
Saudi Arabia is trying shut down a UN-backed war crimes investigation in Yemen, Human Rights Watch said Friday, calling it a "blatant attempt to avoid scrutiny" of its conduct in the country.
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Sanaa -
The walls are crumbling, the windows shattered, and the boys sit three to a desk. But by being enrolled in classes at all, the pupils are among the luckiest children in war-torn Yemen.
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Sanaa -
More than five million children are threatened by famine in war-torn Yemen as prices soar, a charity said Wednesday, warning an entire generation may face death and "starvation on an unprecedented scale".
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London -
More than five million children are at risk of famine in Yemen as the ongoing war causes food and fuel prices to soar across the country, charity Save the Children warned Wednesday.
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Aden -
Saudi-backed government forces in Yemen launched a series of attacks on rebel-held Hodeida, military officials said Tuesday, raising fears of a humanitarian crisis as an 11-week pause in the battle for the port city ended.
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Sanaa -
Yemen's Huthi rebels accused the government and its Saudi-led allies on Tuesday of deliberately targeting food warehouses in Hodeida as they resumed an offensive on the rebel-held port city after an 11-week pause.
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Aden -
The Saudi-led coalition said pro-government forces in Yemen launched a new offensive on Monday night against the rebel-held port city of Hodeida, after an 11-week pause during UN efforts to hold peace talks.
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Sanaa -
At least seven civilians have been killed in an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen, an official and rebel media reported Monday.
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Aden -
Fresh clashes and air strikes around the Yemeni city of Hodeida have killed 32 rebels, hospital and medical sources said Sunday, as the UN envoy kept up peace efforts in Sanaa.
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Geneva -
The UN warned Friday that shelling and air strikes in Yemen's Hodeida province have targeted humanitarian workers and infrastructure, threatening its ability to feed 3.5 million "very hungry people.
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Washington -
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has "certified" that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are working to reduce risks to civilian life in Yemen -- a key step to ensuring continued US support to the coalition.
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Madrid -
After blocking the sale of 400 bombs to Saudi Arabia, involved in the Yemen conflict, Spain now appears to be back-pedalling to maintain other lucrative contracts with the oil giant, observers say.
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Dubai -
The collapse of UN efforts to organise peace talks between the Yemeni government and rebels is likely to lead to an escalation in the country's war, analysts say.
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Sanaa -
The head of Yemen's Shiite Huthi rebels called Saturday for "resistance" as UN-brokered peace talks with the government collapsed after the insurgents stayed away.
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Geneva -
Long awaited UN-backed talks between Yemen's warring parties sputtered out Saturday before ever truly starting, after the Huthi rebels refused to travel to Geneva and fresh fighting broke out on the ground.
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Geneva -
Yemeni government representatives, who had flown to Geneva to take part in long-awaited UN-sponsored peace talks, will return home on Saturday after rebels failed to show up, a delegate said.
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Sanaa -
Yemen's Huthi rebels, expected at UN-sponsored peace talks in Geneva with the government, remained grounded in Sanaa Friday citing fears they would not be allowed to return home if they left.
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Geneva -
Scheduled Yemen peace talks hung in the balance Friday, with the Huthi rebels listing preconditions for coming to Geneva while the government warned it would decide within hours whether to fly home.
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Geneva -
Scheduled peace talks in Geneva between Yemen's government and Huthi rebels hung in the balance Thursday as both sides traded ultimatums and a UN envoy scrambled to mediate.
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Geneva -
Uncertainty hung Thursday over long-awaited talks in Geneva between Yemen's warring parties, as the rebel delegation refused to attend until its demands are met.
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Sanaa -
Yemen's Huthi rebels said Thursday they will not join peace talks in Geneva until their conditions are met, accusing the United Nations of failing to keep its promises.
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Sana -
Little Ali begged his father to let him and his brothers go on a class trip in northern Yemen this summer. None of them would come home alive.
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Geneva -
The UN envoy for Yemen said Wednesday that "consultations" in Geneva between the warring parties offered a "flickering signal of hope" after years of conflict.
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Sanaa -
Yemen's Huthi rebels said Wednesday they were stranded in the capital Sanaa on the eve of United Nations-sponsored peace talks in Geneva with their government rivals.
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Sanaa -
Yemen's Huthi rebels said Wednesday they were stranded in the capital Sanaa on the eve of United Nations-sponsored peace talks in Geneva with their government rivals.
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Madrid -
Spain said Tuesday it has cancelled a 2015 deal to sell 400 laser-guided bombs to Saudi Arabia, which is leading a coalition fighting rebels in Yemen.
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Dubai -
Yemen's warring parties meet in Geneva Thursday for a new round of peace talks with little hope of a breakthrough in an "ugly war" between the Saudi-backed government and rebels linked to Iran.
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The Saudi-led coalition battling rebels in Yemen insisted Monday that an August air strike that killed dozens of civilians including 40 children had a "legitimate" target.
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Yemen's embattled government has agreed to raise the salaries of thousands of public-sector employees, including pensioners, amid protests which have left one person dead.
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Yemen's warring parties will not meet directly at UN-brokered peace talks in Geneva this week, likely to focus on a prisoner exchange deal and the fate of a key port, government officials said Sunday.
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Yemen Image
Street in old town of Aden wikipedia
Nearly 380k children in Yemen could not resume school this year due to the ongoing conflict. UNICEF
File photo: Protesters in Yemen attack US embassy Screen Capture
Protesters raising separatist flags in the southern Dhalea governorate. Adel Yahya/IRIN
View of Sana, Yemen, from a high rooftop. Ai@ce
Protesters storm the US embassy in Yemen Screen Capture
Damaged vehicles are seen at the scene of a suicide attack at the Defence Ministry compound in Sanaa, December 5, 2013 With permission by Reuters
Taiz province, Yemen Wikipedia
My siblings and I in Yemen, circa 1993.
A Yemeni child at school. Many Yemeni children are malnourished Peter Casier
Police officers look at a damaged vehicle at the site of three large explosions, near former President Ali Abdullah Saleh's house which is also within close proximity to the French embassy, in Sanaa. February 3, 2014 With permission by Reuters / Mohamed al-Sayaghi
A man looks at a damaged vehicle at the site of an explosion, near former President Ali Abdullah Saleh's house which is also within close proximity to the French embassy, in Sanaa February 3, 2014 With permission by Reuters / Mohamed al-Sayaghi
Smoke raises from the Defence Ministry's compound after an attack, in Sanaa December 5, 2013 With permission by Reuters / Khaled Abdullah
A still image from a video uploaded by the media arm of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), purportedly shows one of the group's top militants, Harith al-Nadhari -, Al-Malahem Media/AFP/File
A U.S. Apache helicopter. Apaches reportedly took part in Sunday's deadly raid against al-Qaeda militants in the Yakla region of Al-Bayda province, Yemen. pan.li53/Flickr Creative Commons
Displaced children in Habban area in the south. Adel Yahya/IRIN
Police troopers stand guard at checkpoint in Sanaa December 25, 2013 With permission by Reuters / Khaled Abdullah
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