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Two female soccer players competing for the ball during a match; one in a white jersey with black shorts, and the other in a red jersey and shorts. The scene takes place in a stadium with an audience in the background.
International Olympic Committee bans transgender women from competing in women’s events
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50:02
Financial scams in Yemen target women
8:09
UAE-backed separatists control more and more of Yemen’s south
5:56
The importance of a spice mixture for Jews from Yemen
5:53
Houthis are ‘back to business’ with dual strikes on Red Sea ships
5:51
Generations-old historic hotel in Haiti burns to the ground
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47:56
Houthis attack ships in Red Sea for the first time this year
1:15
Israeli PM confirms his government is arming groups in Gaza
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48:53
How the Houthis kept the US navy under constant pressure
6:33
Israel strikes Sanaa airport and Trump claims Houthis have ‘capitulated’
5:34
UK joins US bombing campaign in Yemen marked by increasing civilian deaths
6:56
US strikes oil port in Yemen
3:58
Protests in Gaza against war and Hamas
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48:18
10th anniversary of Saudi bombing campaign on Yemen
6:03
Yemeni coffee shop trend takes off in New York
2:26
Why the Houthis are hard to defeat
4:11
Israel conducts new airstrikes in Yemen
0:56
The importance of a spice mixture for Jews from Yemen
6:02
Israel-Hamas war
Yemenis unify around Houthis in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza
4:18
Attacks on oil tanker in the Red Sea
4:18
Houthis sink second ship in Red Sea
6:32
Global shipping and supply chains impacted by Houthi attacks in the Middle East
3:36
Yemeni vendors display various types of dry goods at a traditional market as food prices rise, in Sanaa, Yemen, Oct. 1, 2022.
Conflict & Justice
Yemenis say their country is about more than war and humanitarian aid
The ambiance of the Bab al-Yemen restaurant in Boston adds to a unique dining experience for customers, Apr. 12, 2023.
Lifestyle & Belief
At Boston’s first Yemeni restaurant, food, community and tradition are on the menu this Ramadan
A photographer takes pictures of the Khurais oil field during a tour for journalists, 150 km east-northeast of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Energy
Saudi Arabia says it’s not responsible for high oil prices
People inspect the rubble of a prison facility hit by a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in a stronghold of Houthi rebels on the border with Saudi Arabia, in the northern Saada province of Yemen, Jan. 22, 2022. Internet access remained largely down for four
Yemenis struggle to maintain contact with loved ones amid attacks, internet blackout
A family prepares tea outside the Directorate of Disaster office where they are camped, in Herat, Afghanistan, on Nov. 29, 2021. The United Nations is predicting that a record 274 million people — who together would amount to the world’s fourth most-popul
US Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking says the solution to the war in Yemen is diplomatic, not militaristic
Coronavirus Conversations
Coronavirus Conversations: The challenges of vaccinating people in conflict zones
A family visits across the U.S.-Canada border at the Peace Arch Historical State Park as a cyclist rides past on the Canadian side, in Blaine, Wash.
Top of The World
US to reopen land borders next month to fully vaccinated people
A cargo ship and oil tanker ship sit idle while docked at the port of Hodeida, Yemen
Environment
A rusting oil tanker off Yemen’s coast is at risk of exploding. It could cut off humanitarian aid to millions.
A woman holds a malnourished boy at the Aslam Health Center, in Hajjah, Yemen
Top of The World
World Food Program chief warns against famine in Yemen
Yemeni fighters look over a mound of soil lined with sandbags
Conflict
Saudi Arabia is ‘desperate to get out’ of Yemen’s yearslong civil war
A huge flag of Ethiopia waves with people sitting underneath it
Food
In Ethiopia, a taste of home for displaced Yemenis
Houthi fighters hold images of relatives killed in violent conflict
Conflict & Justice
Yemen’s most stable city threatened by Houthi takeover
The dark silhouetted of several people are shown with their hands in the air holding up the red, white and black-stripped Yemen flag.
Top of The World
In foreign policy reset, Biden ends US support for Saudi-led offensive in Yemen
A woman holds a young malnourished child.
Foreign policy
Aid agencies fear impact in Yemen after US terror decision
In this Jan. 29, 2011 file photo, anti-government protesters gather in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt.
Photography
Photos: Arab uprisings began with quest for freedom and led to repression, wars
The US Treasury Department building is shown from above with its large Greek columns marking the entrance.
Top of The World
Treasury, Commerce departments hacked; Canada receives first COVID-19 vaccine shipment; Hong Kong court denied bail for Jimmy Lai
Sadaqa Hospital, as seen from the street
Conflict
Film shows how Yemen’s health workers struggle to save young victims of malnutrition
In this file photo, men deliver UN World Food Program (WFP) aid in Aslam, Hajjah, Yemen, Sept. 21, 2018.
Conflict
Labeling the Houthis as ‘terrorists’ might actually cost Yemeni lives
The World Food Program's flag flutters on the roof of WFP headquaters after the organization won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, in Rome, Italy, Oct. 9, 2020.
Top of The World
World Food Program wins Nobel Peace Prize; Moscow talks aim for Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire; China joins COVAX alliance
A view of the old quarter of Sanaa, Yemen, November 14, 2018.
Culture
UNESCO project aims to save Sanaa’s historic mud brick towers
People protest, one woman with a sign "for my future kids my life matters"
Top of The World
Protests raise concerns of COVID-19 spread; Researchers retract hydroxycholorquine study
A health worker takes the temperature of people riding a taxi van
COVID-19
Yemen faces spread of COVID-19 ‘with no health care system at all’
Three men are shown wearing traditional Saudi headdress and garments while seated at a long white table.
COVID-19
Yemen pledging drive hopes to raise $2.4 billion to save aid ops as coronavirus spreads
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump are shown sitting in arm chairs and leaning toward each other shaking hands.
Top of The World
Trump suggests inviting Russia to the G-7; A global spotlight on US amid ongoing protests
A medic wearing a protective suit attends to a patient at the emergency ward of a hospital amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease, COVID-19, in Aden, Yemen
Conflict
With test kits so scarce, doctors in Yemen are flying blind
A member of the Syrian Civil Defense sanitizes inside the mosque at the Bab al-Nour internally displaced persons camp, to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Azaz, Syria, March 26, 2020.
COVID-19
Combat in the world’s biggest conflict areas not slowing down despite COVID-19
A man wears a protective face mask as he rides a motorcycle
Conflict & Justice
As it braces for coronavirus, Yemen offers lessons of survival for the world
Doctors operate under a dim light in a clinic.
Health & Medicine
Invisible ‘superbug’ could be more deadly than bombs in Middle East war zones
Saudi cargo ship Bahri Yanbu, that was prevented by French rights group ACAT from loading a weapons cargo at the French port of Le Havre due to concerns they might be used against civilians in Yemen, is seen at the Port of Genoa, Italy May 20, 2019.
Military
Protesters disrupt Saudi weapons ships
UN envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths at the Red Sea port of Hodeidah, Yemen
Conflict & Justice
UN envoy to US: ‘We need to keep Yemen out of a potential regional conflict’
Young soldier wearing uniform raises his fist alongside other cheering soldiers
Conflict
Cheap drones are changing the calculus of war in Yemen
President Donald Trump holds a chart of military hardware sales as he welcomes Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S. March 20, 2018. 
Conflict
Trump’s override of Congress on weapons deals ‘is exactly what Iran would want’
emen's Houthi movement forces ride in the back of vehicle during withdrawal from Saleef port in Hodeidah province
Conflict
In Yemen, war is ‘trumping peace’
A crowd of young men in military clothes raise their fists in the air. Some have weapons on their shoulders.
Conflict & Justice
With veto, Trump keeps the US in Yemen. Did he ‘greenlight a failed strategy?’
A soldier stands in a road holding a gun
A troop drawdown could happen in Hodeidah. What does this mean for Yemen?
Three young men in hip-hop dance poses
Al-Qaeda is gone, but this Yemeni hip-hop group still can’t perform
Trump and Putin shake hands.
Global Politics
10 defining global security questions of 2018
A sea of red flags wave as Yemeni Houthi protest.
Global Politics
Who are Yemen’s Houthis?