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US secretary of state Antony Blinken: “The US supports a unified, stable Yemen free from foreign influence . . . there is no military solution of the six-year conflict.”  Photograph: Ting Shen

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have rejected a US ceasefire plan, arguing it offers nothing new and would exacerbate the country’s volatile situation. The Ho(...)

The late Saudi journalist Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi: His murder is the subject of The Dissident.

The last few years have seen a wave of true-crime documentaries from around the world. But it’s unusual to find one in which the story unfolds against(...)

Displaced Yemeni children and a woman appear near their huts at a camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) on the outskirts of Sana’a, Yemen. Photograph: Yahya Arhab/EPA

Urgent appeals by humanitarian agencies for funds to avert famine in Yemen have fallen on deaf ears of neighbours waging war in that country and those(...)

White House press secretary Jen Psaki  said the president recognised ‘that there are areas we need to continue to work together on because they are in the interest of the United States’. Photograph: Oliver Contreras/Pool/EPA

The Biden administration has defended its decision not to sanction Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman for his role in the murder of journalist Jam(...)

America will not be well-served by its implicit diplomatic acquiescing to the inevitability that MBS will accede soon to his aged father’s throne and that there is no price to pay by him or his country for his repeated recklessness and ruthlessness  Photograph: Andrew Cabellero Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

The subtext of the message sent out by the Biden administration in publishing its intelligence report on the 2018 killing in Turkey of journalist Jama(...)

Leeds United manager Marcelo Bielsa has been a breath of fresh air in the Premier League. Photo: Oli Scarff - Pool/Getty Images

Back when Amazon was the name of a big river running across South America, a businessman called Jeff Bezos was setting up a shopping/warehousing/deliv(...)

Then US vice-president Joe Biden and Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem in 2016. Photograph: Debbie Hill/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

US president Joe Biden is using telephone diplomacy to reset relations with Saudi Arabia and Israel and shifting from the personal and trans(...)

Then US vice-president Joe Biden shakes hands with Chinese president Xi Jinping in Beijing, 2013. Photograph: Lintao Zhang/Pool/AFP via Getty

One of the first battles in the American civil war took place near a Missouri town that it amused fate to name Carthage. Two millennia before, the Rom(...)

Lives Lost: Flora Nugent, 1934-2021

This article is one of a series about people who have died with coronavirus in Ireland and among the diaspora. You can read more of them here. If you (...)

Palestinian women with  impaired hearing get cartoon production training:  Female literacy in Gaza is 93 per cent, only 5 per cent less than males. Photograph: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto

The ruling by a Hamas-appointed Islamic religious court requiring women to secure permission from male relatives before travelling sets back decades G(...)

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