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Bomb-Laden Drones of Yemen Rebels Threaten Arabian Peninsula

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Yemen rebel drone strike this week on a critical Saudi oil pipeline shows that the otherwise-peaceful sandy reaches of the Arabian Peninsula now are at risk of similar assault, including an under-construction nuclear power plant...
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AP Journalists Win Pulitzer for Coverage of Yemen Civil War

NEW YORK — A team of three Associated Press journalists won a Pulitzer Prize in international reporting Monday for their work documenting torture, graft and starvation in Yemen's brutal civil war. Their reports documented civilian casualties of a U.S. drone...
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Yemeni Mom Overcomes Travel Ban to Finally Hold Dying Son

SAN FRANCISCO — A Yemeni mother cradled her 2-year-old son in her lap, pressing her face close to his and clasping his hand as a series of tubes kept his small body alive. Shaima Swileh touched the boy for the first time since winning a more than yearlong l...

Yemen’s Warring Sides Agree on Truce in Key Port City

RIMBO, Sweden — Yemen's warring sides agreed Thursday to an immediate cease-fire in the strategic port city of Hodeida, where fighting has disrupted vital aid deliveries and left the country on the brink of starvation in the 4-year-old civil war. The agreem...