In Yemen, a huge fire tore through a warehouse belonging to the United Nations’ World Food Programme on Saturday, incinerating food, fuel and other supplies bound for victims of a 3-year civil war. Among supplies destroyed were hundreds of thousands of mattresses meant for people made homeless by a U.S.-backed, Saudi-led bombing campaign against Houthi rebels. The war has devastated Yemen’s health, water and sanitation systems, sparking a massive cholera outbreak and pushing millions of Yemenis to the brink of starvation.
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