Why Is No-one Trying to Stop the War in Yemen...

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Broadcasters from The Netherlands, Ireland, Iceland, Spain and Slovenia are all boycotting May’s Eurovision Song Contest because Israel is participating. Sources within Israel’s broadcaster say calls for it to be banned are unjustified, and organisers of the contest insist it mus ...  Show more

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The UN has called it the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Yemen’s now seven-year-long war has killed almost 400,000 people, mostly children younger than five years old. Millions of people in the country are at risk of famine.

And the war, between the Iran-backed Houthi ...

Why travel to a war-torn country?Yemen’s been going through a nasty civil war for most of the last decade. The situation’s got so bad, aid agencies have described it as the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis”. But despite all this, several thousands of East Africans are still tra ...  Show more

Nella notte gli americani e gli inglesi hanno bombardato dodici basi logistiche e postazioni di lancio degli houthi di Ansar Allah in Yemen. Era una promessa: a inizio anno gli Stati Uniti avevano dato il loro ultimatum al capo della milizia-partito, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, un Che ...  Show more