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FILE - In this Monday, March 8, 2004 file photo, an industrial plant strips natural gas from freshly pumped crude oil is seen at Saudi Aramco's Shaybah oil field at Shaybah in Saudi Arabia's Rub al-Khali desert. Saudi state TV reported Saturday, Aug. 17, 2019, that a fire had been controlled at the massive oil and gas Shaybah field after a drone attack claimed by Yemen's Houthi rebels. (AP Photo/Bruce Stanley, File)

Yemen rebel drone attack targets remote Saudi oil field

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

In this Friday Aug. 9, 2019 frame grab from video, Southern Transitional Council separatist fighters line up to storm the presidential palace in the southern port city of Aden, Yemen. The separatists backed by the United Arab Emirates began withdrawing Sunday from positions they seized from the internationally-recognized government in Aden. Both the southern separatists and the government forces are ostensibly allies in the Saudi-led military coalition that’s been battling the Houthi rebels in northern Yemen since 2015, but the four days of fighting in Aden have exposed a major rift in the alliance. (AP Photo)

Correction: Yemen story

By AHMED AL-HAJ AND NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

Yemen official: No talks before separatists leave Aden

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In this Friday Aug. 9, 2019 frame grab from video, Southern Transitional Council separatist fighters line up to storm the presidential palace in the southern port city of Aden, Yemen. The separatists backed by the United Arab Emirates began withdrawing Sunday from positions they seized from the internationally-recognized government in Aden. Both the southern separatists and the government forces are ostensibly allies in the Saudi-led military coalition that’s been battling the Houthi rebels in northern Yemen since 2015, but the four days of fighting in Aden have exposed a major rift in the alliance. (AP Photo)

UAE-backed separatists pull back after seizing Yemen’s Aden

By AHMED AL-HAJ and SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2018 file photo, men deliver aid donations from donors, in Aslam, Hajjah, Yemen. An Associated Press investigation found some of the United Nations aid workers sent in to Yemen amid a humanitarian crisis caused by five years of civil war have been accused of enriching themselves from an outpouring of donated food, medicine and money. Documents from an internal probe of the U.N.’s World Health Organization uncovered allegations of large funds deposited in staffers’ personal bank accounts, suspicious contracts, and tons of donated medicine diverted or unaccounted for. (AP Photo/Hammadi Issa, File)

WHO says it has ‘zero tolerance’ for corruption in Yemen

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Separatists clash with presidential guards in southern Yemen

By AHMED AL-HAJ and SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Houthi rebel fighters fire their weapons in the air as they take off to a battlefront following a gathering aimed at mobilizing more fighters for the Houthi movement, in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. The conflict in Yemen began with the 2014 takeover of Sanaa by the Houthis, who drove out the internationally recognized government. Months later, in March 2015, a Saudi-led coalition launched its air campaign to prevent the rebels from overrunning the country's south. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Groups: Yemen airport closure ‘death sentence’ for thousands

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

In this March 30, 2019, file photo, women are treated for suspected cholera infection at Al-Sabeen hospital, in Sanaa, Yemen. An Associated Press investigation found some of the United Nations aid workers sent in to Yemen amid a humanitarian crisis caused by five years of civil war have been accused of enriching themselves from an outpouring of donated food, medicine and money. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

AP: UN workers accused of fraud, theft in handling Yemen aid

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

In this March 30, 2019, file photo, women are treated for suspected cholera infection at Al-Sabeen hospital, in Sanaa, Yemen. An Associated Press investigation found some of the United Nations aid workers sent in to Yemen amid a humanitarian crisis caused by five years of civil war have been accused of enriching themselves from an outpouring of donated food, medicine and money. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

U.N. investigates staffers in Yemen for graft in aid efforts

By Maggie Michael - Associated Press

UN food agency, Yemeni rebels reach deal to restore aid

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Security forces inspect the site of a deadly attack in Aden, Yemen, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. Yemen's rebels fired a ballistic missile at a military parade Thursday in the southern port city of Aden as coordinated suicide bombings targeted a police station in another part of the city. The attacks killed more than 50 people and wounded dozens. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

The Latest: Yemen rebels claim to have collaborators in Aden

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Security forces gather at the site of a deadly attack in Aden, Yemen, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. A Yemen health official and witnesses say at least 40 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a missile attack and coordinated suicide bombings in the southern port city of Aden. The official says the missile struck a military parade underway Thursday in Aden, the temporary seat of the U.N. recognized Yemeni government. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Rebel missile attack, suicide bombs kill 51 in Yemen’s Aden

By Maggie Michael and Ahmed Al-haj - Associated Press

Civilians gather at the site of a deadly attack in Aden, Yemen, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. Yemen's rebels have fired a ballistic missile at a military parade in the southern port city of Aden as coordinated suicide bombings targeted a police station in another part of the city. The attacks killed at least 51 people and wounded dozens. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

The Latest: Missile, suicide attack kill dozens in Yemen

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FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2019 file photo, United Nations Development Program Administrator, Achim Steiner, speaks during the inauguration ceremony of the Africa Center for Climate and Sustainable Development, in Rome. Steiner spoke to The Associated Press on Monday, July 29, 2019, and said the devastating five-year civil war in Yemen has knocked the country back 20 years in terms of development and access to education. Yemen was already the Arab world's poorest nation before the war, which has killed tens of thousands of people. (Maurizio Brambatti/ANSA Via AP, File)

UN official says war in Yemen knocked country back 20 years

By LAURE VAN RUYMBEKE - Associated Press

Yemeni officials: Saudi-led airstrike kills 10 civilians

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

UN report: Conflicts kill and hurt a record 12,000 children

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this file photo taken Saturday, March 21, 2015, members of a militia group loyal to Yemen's President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, known as the Popular Committees, chew qat, Yemen's favorite drug, as they sit next to their tank, guarding a major intersection in Aden, Yemen. The United Arab Emirates, one of the most powerful parties in Yemen’s war, has begun to draw down its forces in past weeks in 2019, leaving the Saudi-led coalition with a weakened ground presence and fewer tactical options. The withdrawal of several thousand troops comes amid heightened tensions between the United States and Iran, and as the Iranian-allied Yemeni rebels known as Houthis increase their attacks on Saudi Arabia.(AP Photo/Hamza Hendawi, File)

AP Explains: How Emirates troop drawdown impacts Yemen’s war

By AYA BATRAWY and SAM MAGDY - Associated Press

Yemeni officials: Attack blamed on al-Qaida kills 5 police

By AHMED EL-HAJ - Associated Press

UN food chief says full food aid could be restored in Yemen

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

Saudi Arabia intercepts drone launched by Yemeni rebels

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