By Lisa Barrington and Mohammed Ghobari DUBAI/ADEN (Reuters) – Yemen’s warring parties have failed to pull troops from the main port under a month-old truce, putting the first major diplomatic breakthrough of the four-year war in jeopardy and reviving the threat of an all-out assault that could unleash famine. RELATED Pakistan Receives $1b from UAE, Confirms SBP – Abb Takk News The resignation this week of the U.N. official monitoring the ceasefire, who quit days after his convoy was shot at, has hammered home the potential for the peace deal to collapse. If fighting restarts in earnest around the port … Continue reading Fear of renewed fighting, hunger as Yemen port troop pull-out stalls

The sound of music fills the halls at a school in Yemen’s Taez, where little Nazira al-Jaafari sits at a keyboard as a teacher takes her through the notes. “I love music,” said Jaafari, a pupil at the Al-Nawras school where tutors are trying to help students temporarily forget the ongoing war. RELATED BAE chairman: UK should be ‘critical friend’ to Riyadh – Sky News “Whenever I feel sad or uncomfortable, I play music.” She has built up an eclectic repertoire, including happy birthday and cult songs by Arab icons Fairuz and Umm Kalthoum. “I just hope that Yemen will … Continue reading In wartime Yemen, children find solace in music

Aerial view showing firemen looking for people in heavy machinery (L and R) and a locomotive (C) after the collapse of a dam which belonged to Brazil’s giant mining company Vale, near the town of Brumadinho in southeastern Brazil, on January 25, 2019. Rescuers worked overnight into Saturday searching for around 300 people missing after a dam collapse at a mine in southeast Brazil killed at least nine, but the local governor said “odds are minimal” that they would be found alive. Seven bodies were recovered Friday hours after the disaster, which saw a torrent of mud break through the … Continue reading Fears Rise As 300 Go Missing In Brazil Dam Disaster