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US Permanent Representative to the United Nations Samantha Power attends the Third International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria in Bayan Palace March 31, 2015. (Reuters/Stephanie McGehee)
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In this photo taken Tuesday, March 24, 2015, tanks seized recently by militiamen loyal to Yemen’s President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi take positions at the al-Anad air base in the southern province of Lahej, 60 kilometers (35 miles) north of Aden, Yemen. (AP Photo/Wael Qubady)
Saudis airdrop arms to Aden defenders, Houthis pull back
Aden, Reuters—Houthi forces pulled back from a central Aden district on Friday and warplanes from the Saudi-led coalition dropped weapons and medical aid to fighters defending the southern Yemeni city, a last symbolic foothold of the country’s absent president....Caption:
A file picture dated 27 February 2013 shows Yemeni former president Ali Abdullah Saleh at a rally of his supporters to mark the first anniversary of his own removal following bloody protests against his 33-year rule, at a public square, in Sana’a, Yemen. (EPA/YAHYA ARHAB)
Opinion: Saleh continues to dance on the heads of snakes
Yemen’s ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh used to claim boastfully that ruling Yemen is “like dancing on the heads of snakes.” He bragged about being skilled at playing this game and unilaterally ruling Yemen for decades. This was the equation that an “elected”...Caption:
A Germanwings logo is pictured at a door of a car outside the Germanwings headquarters at Cologne-Bonn airport, Germany, on March 28, 2015. (Reuters/Wolfgang Rattay)
French investigators: Co-pilot accelerated plane on descent
Paris, AP—The co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings flight repeatedly sped up the plane as he used the automatic pilot to descend the A320 into the Alps, the French air accident investigation agency said Friday. The chilling new detail from the BEA agency is based on an...Caption:
As some Iranians celebrate on a street in northern Tehran after Iran’s nuclear agreement with world powers in Lausanne, Switzerland, not everybody is pleased with the deal. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)