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UN demands aid access to besieged Yemen city Taiz

The United Nations insisted Tuesday that aid must immediately be allowed to enter Yemen's Taiz, besieged by pro-Iran Houthi fighters who are preventing supplies from reaching the country's third-largest city. Houthi fighters have encircled Taiz since early October, blocking the road that links it to Aden, interim capital of the Saudi-backed, internationally-recognised government. "Humanitarian…

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