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 by Staff Writers Sanaa (AFP) May 16, 2019
Warplanes struck in and around the rebel-held Yemeni capital Thursday two days after the insurgents claimed drone strikes that shut a key oil pipeline in neighbouring Saudi Arabia, the rebels and witnesses said. One witness told AFP he heard a loud explosion in the heart of Sanaa. The rebels' Al-Masirah television blamed "aircraft of the (Saudi-led) aggression". In an initial tweet, the broadcaster reported six strikes on the Arhab district of Sanaa province. It then reported further strikes, including one in Sanaa itself. A second witness told AFP that the raids began around 8 am (0500 GMT) while many Yemenis were asleep awaiting the end at sunset of the daytime fast observed by Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan. "There were many strikes," he added. On Tuesday, the Huthi rebels claimed responsibility for twin drone strikes on Saudi Arabia's main east-west oil pipeline, saying that they were a response to "crimes" committed by Riyadh during the bloody air war it has led in Yemen since March 2015. The pipeline, which can carry five million barrels of crude per day, provides a strategic alternative route for Saudi exports if the shipping lane from the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz is closed. Iran has repeatedly threatened to close the vital conduit for global oil supplies in case of a military confrontation with the United States. The Saudi cabinet called on Wednesday for "confronting terrorist entities which carry out such sabotage acts, including the Iran-backed Huthi militias in Yemen." Key ally the United Arab Emirates echoed the call. "We will retaliate and we will retaliate hard when we see Huthis hitting civilian targets like what happened in Saudi Arabia," the UAE minister of state for foreign affairs, Anwar Gargash, said on Wednesday. Saudi Arabia and its allies intervened in Yemen when President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi fled into Saudi exile as the rebels closed in on his last refuge in Yemen's second city Aden after sweeping through most of the rest of the country. The intervention has retaken much of the south but the capital and most of the populous central highlands remain in rebel hands.
Iran condemns Saudi-led air strikes on Yemen The Thursday strikes followed a rebel drone attack that closed one of the kingdom's main oil pipelines earlier this week and that Riyadh said was carried out on Tehran's orders. "We call on the international community and human rights groups to act on their commitments and stop such crimes from happening again by any means possible," Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi said. "Countries supporting the aggressor forces in Yemen by providing weapons and bombs to the coalition have a shared responsibility for this crime and must be held accountable," he added in a statement on Telegram. Mousavi did not comment on Riyadh's allegation that Tehran was behind Tuesday's rebel attack on the Saudi pipeline. Aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said that at least four people were killed and 48 wounded in coalition air strikes on Yemen's rebel-held capital Sanaa on Thursday. The UN's humanitarian office OCHA said later that five children had been killed and 16 wounded in the strikes. The coalition intervened in Yemen in March 2015 when President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi fled into Saudi exile as the rebels were poised to take his last toehold Aden after overrunning most of the rest of the country. Its air campaign on rebel-held areas has been repeatedly criticised by the United Nations and human rights groups for its high civilian death toll.
Special peace court orders release of Colombian former guerrilla Bogota (AFP) May 15, 2019 A special peace court in Colombia on Wednesday ordered the "immediate release" of a former left-wing guerrilla leader wanted by the United States for drug trafficking. Jesus Santrich, a blind former leader of the FARC rebels, was arrested in April 2018, suspected of participating in the trafficking of 10 tons of cocaine to the United States. However, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) ordered him released to comply with the "non-extradition guarantee" that formed part of the historic 2016 ... read more
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