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Food aid stolen as Yemen starves

Day after day Nabil al-Hakimi, a humanitarian official in Taiz, one of Yemen's largest cities, went to work feeling he had a "mountain" on his shoulders. Billions of dollars in food and other foreign aid was coming into his war-ravaged homeland, but millions of Yemenis were still living a step...

UAE helicopter crash kills all crew

A rescue helicopter crashed in United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Saturday, killing all of the crew, according to UAE official news agency WAM. The helicopter was conducting search and rescue operation in Jabal Jis area in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, the report said. The report...

2-year-old Yemeni boy whose mom sued US to see him has died

The 2-year-old son of a Yemeni woman who sued the Trump administration to let her into the country to be with the ailing boy has died, the Council on American-Islamic Relations announced. Abdullah Hassan died in UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in Oakland, where his father Ali Hassan...

Yemen rebels announce deal on Hudaydah aid delivery

Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Saturday announced a deal with the government to reopen a road between Sanaa and the port city of Al-Hudaydah to allow access to relief aid.   “An initial agreement has been reached between Houthi and government representatives to reopen the main road...