{
  "id": 16218006,
  "title": "UN sounds alarm on besieged Yemen city Taiz",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/un-sounds-alarm-on-besieged-yemen-city-taiz",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-23T18:30:37.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Al-Monitor",
    "slug": "al-monitor",
    "url": "https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/10/un-sounds-alarm-besieged-yemen-city-taiz"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Time is running out to get aid into Taiz, besieged by pro-Iran Houthi fighters who are preventing supplies from reaching Yemen's third-largest city, the United Nations said Friday. 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. \"Safe, sustained and unimpeded humanitarian…",
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  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Middle East Eye",
        "title": "Time running out for Yemen’s Taiz after 20 days under Houthi siege, UN warns",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/time-running-out-for-yemens-taiz-after-20-days-under-houthi-siege-un",
        "published": "2026-10-23T18:42:06.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Al Jazeera",
        "title": "Time ‘running out’ to reach Yemen’s Taiz amid deepening crisis, UN says",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/time-running-out-to-reach-yemens-taiz-amid-deepening-crisis-un-says",
        "published": "2026-10-23T20:44:02.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}