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'End war on Yemen's children': conflict escalates around Hodeidah hospital

11/2/2018, 5:08:40 PM
UN warns heightening of hostilities following US ceasefire calls will have devastating impact on severely malnourished children ✔ On Thursday, the Saudi-led coalition said it had attacked Sana’a international airport and an adjoining airbase being used by Houthi insurgents ✔ To get a better negotiating position around the table in Sweden ✔ We need parties to enable us to do our work without any hindrance, and we need donors who are generous to continue to be generous, he said


U.N. chief appeals for end to Yemen war, outlines next steps

11/2/2018, 6:04:02 PM
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday appealed for an end to the war... ✔ He called for commercial and humanitarian imports of food, fuel and other essentials to be allowed without restrictions, and urged the sides to allow roads to remain open so life-saving goods can reach communities across the country ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


Girl who became symbol of Yemen crisis dies

11/2/2018, 6:04:18 PM
Amal Hussein, a 7-year-old Yemeni girl whose photograph in The New York Times became a symbol of the country's long-running conflict, has died, Yemen's Houthi-held Health Ministry said. ✔ Read More After Amal's image was published, amid the international furor over the brutal killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called for a ceasefire in the next 30 days


Yemen: Amal Hussain, whose image drew attention to famine, dies

11/2/2018, 7:56:31 PM
The seven-year-old girl, whose New York Times portrait caused outcry, passed away in a refugee camp, her family says. ✔ Worried by the rise of the Houthis, believed to be backed by regional rival Iran, a Saudi-UAE-led military coalition launched an intervention in 2015 in the form of a massive air campaign aimed at reinstalling Hadi's government ✔ Inside Story Why are children being used as soldiers in Yemen


Monitor: Government shelling in north Syria kills at least 8

11/2/2018, 5:07:19 PM
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government shelling of a rebel-held area in the country's northwest Friday killed at least eight people in the latest and deadliest violation of a truce in the area reached two months ago, a Syria war monitor and an opposition paramedic group said. The artillery shelling marked another violation of a truce reached between Russia and Turkey in September that avoided a major government offensive on the rebel-held province of Idlib. Last Friday, seven people were killed when government forces shelled parts of Idlib, according to opposition activists.


A 7-Year-Old Girl Whose Harrowing Photo Drew Attention To Yemen's Famine Has Died Of Malnutrition

11/2/2018, 4:02:39 PM
"My heart is broken," Amal Hussain's mother said. ✔ A seven-year-old girl whose harrowing photo came to symbolize the plight of civilians in Yemen's civil war has become the latest victim of the long-running conflict ✔ There was one boy we visited who was very, very severely malnourished ✔ We cannot believe we are in 2018 and yet such a horrible conflict is happening


Starving Yemeni girl from shocking NYT photo dies as bombing & blockade continues

11/2/2018, 4:46:45 PM
A starving Yemeni girl, whose searing portrait from a hospital bed brought the world’s attention to the ongoing and growing humanitarian disaster in the country, has died. Meanwhile, the Saudi-led blockade of supplies continues. ✔ READ MORE: Saudis, UAE pressured UN for favorable media coverage in exchange for Yemen aid – report Saudi Arabia has led the military intervention in Yemen since 2015 on the side of the ousted government of Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi which is fighting Houthi rebels


'Father of Taliban' Mullah Sami ul-Haq killed in Pakistan: deputy

11/2/2018, 6:45:09 PM
Muslim cleric Sami ul-Haq, known as the "Father of the Taliban" for ha... ✔ Recently, when the Afghan government sent him a delegation and sought his help in bringing the Afghan Taliban to the negotiation table, he offered them .. ✔ his madrassa (seminary) to sit with each other and build trust, a member of Haq’s family told Reuters ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


US reimposes all Iran sanctions, allows eight countries to continue importing oil

11/2/2018, 4:41:19 PM
The United States will add 700 individuals and entities to its Iran blacklist and pressure the global SWIFT banking network to cut off Tehran when expanded sanctions are put in place next week, US officials said Friday. ✔ Pompeo wants the Shiite clerical regime to withdraw from war-ravaged Syria, where it is a critical ally of President Bashar al-Assad, and to end longstanding support to regional militant movements Hezbollah and Hamas ✔ The new US sanctions will mostly have psychological effects


Pakistani cleric called ‘father of the Taliban’ killed in attack

11/2/2018, 4:06:16 PM
The motives behind the slaying of Maulana Sami ul-Haq were not immediately clear, but it came amid growing unrest after a Christian woman was acquitted of blasphemy. ✔ It was not immediately clear whether the slaying was related to the ongoing unrest ✔ I have great respect for Maulana Sami, and his death is a huge loss to Pakistan, said Maulana Fazl-Ur Rehman, a leading Sunni religious politician who heads another conservative Sunni party ✔ His body was taken the Rawalpindi district hospital


Family gather for funeral of ex-soldier, 32, killed in head-on crash by elderly motorist driving caravan wrong way up M40

11/2/2018, 7:00:45 PM
THE family of the former soldier who was killed by an elderly motorist towing a caravan the wrong way up the M40 have gathered for his funeral. Stuart Richards, 32, was laid to rest at Nuneaton Cre… ✔ Movie fan Stuart had just arrived from a trip to LA and was driving to pick up his brother when his Ford Mondeo was hit head-on on the M40 ✔ And the Coventry city fan was just back living in the UK after three years abroad in Australia where he moved after becoming disillusioned with the army ✔ Email us at tips@the-sun.co.uk or call 0207 782 4368


Trump White House sticking by Saudis despite grisly murder

11/2/2018, 4:11:05 PM
International outcry over the grisly murder of a dissident journalist is not likely to alter US backing of domineering Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, officials familiar with the matter tell CNN. ✔ Yet at the same time, it is very important for the stability of the world -- for the region and for the world -- that Saudi Arabia remain stable, Netanyahu said at a news conference at the Craiova Group summit in Bulgaria on Friday morning ✔ It'll take us probably a handful more weeks before we have enough evidence to actually put those sanctions in place, but I think we'll be able to get there, Pompeo said in an interview with a St


Pakistani political and religious leader Sami-ul-Haq killed

11/2/2018, 5:31:17 PM
The octogenarian, who was known for his Afghan Taliban support, was founded dead at his residence in city of Rawalpindi. ✔ Haq was the chief of the Darul Uloom Haqqania seminary in the northern Pakistani town of Akora Khattak, the alma matter of several senior leaders of the Afghan Taliban, including former chief Mullah Omar and Mullah Akhtar Mansour ✔ Reporting by Asad Hashim, Al Jazeera's digital correspondent in Pakistan


Jamal Khashoggi's Body Dissolved After Dismemberment, Turkish Official Says

11/2/2018, 4:55:33 PM
"The reason they dismembered his body is to dissolve it easier," an adviser to Turkey's president said. ✔ Istanbul’s chief prosecutor, Irfan Fidan, said this week that Khashoggi was immediately strangled when he arrived at the consulate ✔ are calling for a cease-fire in the kingdom’s sometimes overlooked war with Yemen, which faces an enormous humanitarian crisis


Trump Accelerates Global Disintegration of Once Sacrosanct Asylum Rights

11/2/2018, 5:40:10 PM
He may not be the first to flout the rules — even the E.U. has. But he is risking damage that could become permanent. ✔ And even if countries might care little about refugees themselves, they know that they will benefit if everyone else complies ✔ If that happens, the consequences will be most felt far away from the United States-Mexico border, in places like Honduras, Myanmar, Jordan or Burundi, where millions of people displaced by war or persecution will have to go without the protections once promised by a world that had agreed never again


Muslim cleric Maulana Sami Ul-Haq dubbed ‘father of the Taliban’ assassinated in brutal ‘knife attack’ at his Pakistan home

11/2/2018, 4:35:43 PM
A PROMINENT Muslim cleric from Pakistan who was regarded as the “Father of the Taliban” has been assassinated. Maulana Sami Ul-Haq, 80, was killed in the city of Rawalpindi, which is 22… ✔ Ul-Haq's son told The News International his father tried to attend the protest in Islamabad ✔ Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/thesun, and follow us from our main Twitter account at @TheSun, where we will bring you this story and all the rest of the top news and exclusives of the day ✔ TheSun.co.uk is your go to destination for the best celebrity news, football news, real-life stories, jaw-dropping pictures and must-see video


They Challenged the Status Quo. On Tuesday, They’ll Find Out Who’s With Them.

11/2/2018, 7:03:10 PM
In advance of Tuesday’s midterms, a look at how women candidates have chosen to present themselves in their campaign ads, and in their own words. ✔ The buildup has been relentless, and the outcome could have profound effects, particularly if Democrats win the House majority ✔ In her ads, she channels President Trump, calling Republican lawmakers weak and vowing to help repeal Obamacare ✔ Tell me what you think at dearmaya@nytimes.com


Top Trump officials say new U.S. sanctions will choke Iran's economy

11/2/2018, 4:21:43 PM
The U.S. sanctions go into effect at midnight on Sunday and are aimed at more than 700 Iranian individuals and entities. ✔ Special Envoy Martin Griffiths in what Pompeo says must be substantive consultations in November in a third country ✔ Iran’s leaders have said they will continue to adhere to the agreement despite America's exit ✔ The Iranian economy today is already feeling the effects of this … because the world and Iran knew this was coming


Putin calls for GRU to be restored to full name with 'intelligence'

11/2/2018, 5:06:53 PM
Russia's military intelligence agency changed its name to the GU eight years ago but the old name is still widely used. ✔ She said they were members of Russian military intelligence and acted on orders from a 'senior level' ✔ Vladimir Putin and his Cuban counterpart Miguel Diaz-Canel (pictured together in Moscow) pledged today to develop political, economic and military cooperation between their nations


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