The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions targeting Yemen's Huthi rebels as it voiced exasperation that the Iranian-banked insurgents have kept up a military campaign.



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A bronze statue of the main god of the kingdom of Saba, located in what is now the Yemeni province of Marib, lies in a dark and fortified room of the Sanaa National Museum.

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CAIRO (AP) — The U.S. special envoy for Yemen lashed out at the Houthi rebels, accusing them of failing to try to reach an urgently needed cease-fire in the war-wrecked nation.Tim Lenderking said the Iranian-backed Houthis bear the major responsibility for refusing to engage meaningfully on a cease-fire and to take steps to “resolve a nearly seven-years conflict that has brought unimaginable suffering to the Yemeni people.

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Environmental organisation Greenpeace warned on Thursday (Jun 3) that a long-abandoned fuel tanker off war-torn Yemen's coast could "explode at any moment", urging UN action to prevent a catastrophic Red Sea oil spill.
The 45-year-old fuel vessel FSO Safer has 1.1 million barrels of crude ...

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Yemen fuel tanker could 'explode at any moment': Greenpeace

The U.N. Security Council called on Yemen’s Houthi rebels to quickly allow U.N. experts to examine an oil tanker moored off the war-torn country’s coast loaded with more than 1 million barrels of crude oil, warning there is a growing risk it could rupture or explode “causing an environmental, economic, maritime and humanitarian catastrophe for Yemen and the region.”The U.N.’s most powerful body reiterated that the Houthis a…

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SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A vessel capsized on Tuesday while offloading cargo at Yemen’s Red Sea port of Hodeida, leaving at least one worker dead, Yemeni officials said.The cargo is owned by the U.N. food agency, said the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters. It was not immediately clear what caused the vessel to capsize. But the officials said the vessel was old.The s

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