Ambassador Samantha Power has called on the US to end its support for the Saudi-led invasion of Yemen, in a tweet lamenting a humanitarian catastrophe that she enabled and supported during her tenure as US envoy to the UN.
The Saudi Arabian Foreign Ministry has recalled its ambassador from Canada and given the Canadian ambassador 24 hours to leave the country. Riyadh is also freezing all new trade and investment deals with Canada.
The UAE says it supports UN-sponsored talks for peace in Yemen, but the Houthis say they do not see "any serious or real stance by the aggressors toward reaching a political solution.”
AP investigation finds US-backed coalition in Yemen struck secret deals with al-Qaida, the group's most dangerous branch.
Houthi spokesman Mohammed Abdulsalam says Yemeni fighters were conducting a military operation against the aggressors in the country's western coast using tactics that would eventually force the invaders out of the region.
Hundreds of Yemeni women have taken into the streets of the capital, Sana'a, to denounce deadly Saudi-led aerial assaults, the latest of which hit the port city of Hodeida.
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