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This image provided by I.R. Consilium taken in 2019, shows the deck of the FSO Safer, indicating the lack of basic maintenance for several years, leading to incidental smaller spills, moored off Ras Issa port, Yemen. Houthi rebels are blocking the United Nations from inspecting the abandoned oil tanker loaded with more than one million barrels of crude oil. UN officials and experts fear the tanker could explode or leak, causing massive environmental damage to Red Sea marine life. (I.R. Consilium via AP)

UN encouraged experts may get to visit oil tanker off Yemen

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Report: Detainees at high virus risk in crowded Yemen jail

By NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

Workers salvage oil canisters from the wreckage of a vehicle oil store hit by Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, July 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Saudi-led coalition launches new strikes on Yemeni capital

Associated Press

In this Sunday, June 14, 2020 photo, seven-month-old Issa Ibrahim Nasser is brought to a clinic in Deir Al-Hassi, At seven months old, Issa weighs only three kilos. Like him, hundreds of children suffer from acute severe malnutrition because of poverty and grinding conflict. Yemen. (AP Photo/Issa Al-Rajhi)

Hunger stalks children in Yemen as UN cuts aid programs

By ISSA MOHAMMED - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, June 14, 2020 file photo, medical workers attend to a COVID-19 patient in an intensive care unit at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. For months, experts have warned of a potential nightmare scenario: After overwhelming health systems in some of the world's wealthiest regions, the coronavirus gains a foothold in poor or war-torn countries ill-equipped to contain it and sweeps through the population. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

Worst virus fears are realized in poor or war-torn countries

By GERALD IMRAY and JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

This satellite image provided by Manar Technologies taken June 17, 2020, shows the FSO Safer tanker moored off Ras Issa port, in Yemen. Houthi rebels are blocking the United Nations from inspecting the abandoned oil tanker loaded with more than a million barrels of crude oil. U.N. officials and experts fear the tanker could explode or leak, causing massive environmental damage to Red Sea marine life. (Maxar Technologies via AP)

Yemen asks for help as seawater seeps into abandoned tanker

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 23, 2019 file photo, a malnourished newborn baby lies in an incubator at Al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. The U.N. children’s agency says that millions of Yemeni children could be pushed to “the brink of starvation” as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the war-torn Arab country amid a huge drop in humanitarian aid funding. UNICEF on Friday, June 26, 2020 released a new report, “Yemen five years on: Children, conflict and COVID-19.” (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

UNICEF: Millions of Yemeni children may starve amid pandemic

By NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

This satellite image provided by Manar Technologies taken June 17, 2020, shows the FSO Safer tanker moored off Ras Issa port, in Yemen. Houthi rebels are blocking the United Nations from inspecting the abandoned oil tanker loaded with more than a million barrels of crude oil. U.N. officials and experts fear the tanker could explode or leak, causing massive environmental damage to Red Sea marine life. (Maxar Technologies via AP)

Seawater seeping into decaying oil tanker off Yemen coast

By Maggie Michael - Associated Press

Clashes between Yemen’s gov’t, separatists mar ceasefire

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, June 17, 2020, workers unload boxes of medical supplies on arrival at Sanaa International Airport in Sanaa, Yemen. The shipment includes ventilators, coronavirus test kits, PCR machines and personal protective equipment. Organized by the United Nations and private companies, it comes as the UN is facing a funding shortage for its operations in the war-torn country, where officials and medical experts fear the coronavirus could be spreading unchecked due to limited medical facilities. (World Health Organization via AP)

UN aid chief: Yemen will fall off a cliff if no new funds

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

A medical worker wearing personal protective equipment takes care of a COVID-19 patient in an intensive care unit at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, June 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

UN chief urges pressure to bring Yemen’s parties to talks

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Saudi Arabia says it intercepts Yemen rebel drones, missiles

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In this Sept. 5, 2019, file photo, supporters of southern separatists gather with the flags of south Yemen and the United Arab Emirates during a rally to show support for the UAE amid a standoff with the internationally recognized government, in Aden, Yemen. (AP Photo/Wail al-Qubaty, File)

Saudis say Yemen’s government, separatists agree to truce

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

Yemen separatists consolidate grip in area of UNESCO site

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

Fighting reportedly erupts in Yemen’s UNESCO heritage site

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, June 17, 2020, workers unload boxes of medical supplies on arrival at Sanaa International Airport in Sanaa, Yemen. The shipment includes ventilators, coronavirus test kits, PCR machines and personal protective equipment. Organized by the United Nations and private companies, it comes as the UN is facing a funding shortage for its operations in the war-torn country, where officials and medical experts fear the coronavirus could be spreading unchecked due to limited medical facilities. (World Health Organization via AP)

Last batch of joint aid lands in Yemen amid UN funding cuts

By ISABEL DEBRE and MAGGIE HYDE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2019, file photo, Shiite Houthi tribesmen hold their weapons as they chant slogans during a tribal gathering showing support for the Houthi movement, in Sanaa, Yemen. The United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner replaced its chief in Yemen, Elobaid Ahmed Elobaid, nearly nine months after the Houthis who control northern Yemen denied him entry, documents dated Tuesday, June 9, 2020 obtained by The Associated Press show. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

When will Congress get us out of Yemen?

By Sam Faddis

Yemen’s rebels: Saudi coalition airstrike kills 13 civilians

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

UN: 94,000 Yemenis displaced since January; clashes in south

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2019, file photo, Shiite Houthi tribesmen hold their weapons as they chant slogans during a tribal gathering showing support for the Houthi movement, in Sanaa, Yemen. The United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner replaced its chief in Yemen, Elobaid Ahmed Elobaid, nearly nine months after the Houthis who control northern Yemen denied him entry, documents dated Tuesday, June 9, 2020 obtained by The Associated Press show. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

UN agency replaces official blocked from entering Yemen

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press