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Top Yemen Bahai figure disappears amid Houthi crackdown

Friends of the spokesman for Yemen's Bahai religious minority say he has been detained by Houthi militias who control the country's north. Two friends of Abdullah Yahia al-Ayolofi said Friday that unidentified men snatched al-Ayolofi from a market in a district called al-Jarraf in Sanaa...

UN agency resumes cash aid to 9 million Yemenis

The U.N. children's agency says it has resumed emergency cash transfers to 9 million Yemenis after it was allowed to operate a call center to help monitor aid distribution. UNICEF spokeswoman Juliette Touma says the cash transfer program resumed Sunday, providing vital aid to some of...

Airstrike kills 4 civilians in Yemen's Hudaida

Yemeni security officials say an airstrike by the Arab coalition has killed four civilians working at a bee farm in the Red Sea city of Hodeida. They say the airstrike Monday was carried out as fighting raged on the ground between an array of militias backed by the United Arab Emirates...