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Wednesday 7 February 2018
Yemeni officials say government forces retake strategic city

By AHMED AL-HAJ the town of Hays after two naa. thousands of Yemenis with of delegation in Yemen,
Associated Press weeks of fierce fighting The internationally recog- kidney failure are at risk of said in a statement.
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Ye- against the rebels, the of- nized government and the dying unless the country's The statement said 25 per-
meni forces loyal to the ficials said. The fighting has coalition aimed at cutting remaining dialysis centers cent of dialysis patients in
country's internationally killed at least 85 people off supply lines from the receive more supplies and Yemen have died every
recognized government from both sides in the past central province of Ibb to their medical staffs are year since the civil war be-
on Tuesday recaptured a 48 hours, they said. the rebels in Hodeidah, the paid. gan in 2015. More dialysis
key crossroads town in the Yemen's war pits the Saudi- officials said. The officials "The urgent needs of dialy- supplies, functioning di-
southwestern province of led coalition allied with the spoke on condition of ano- sis patients underscore how alysis machines and fund-
Hodeidah in an effort to internationally recognized nymity because they were (the) conflict has devas- ing for staff salaries are ur-
cut off supply lines to the government against Shiite not authorized to brief the tated Yemen's health care gently needed to ensure
Shiite rebels, officials said. Houthi rebels, who are al- media. system, negatively affect- the mortality rate does not
The forces backed by air- lied with Iran and control The International Commit- ing many people with long- rise further for Yemen's's
strikes from a Saudi-led much of northern Yemen, tee of the Red Cross (ICRC) term health concerns," Al- 4,400 renal failure patients,
coalition took control of including the capital Sa- warned on Tuesday that exandre Faite, ICRC's head it added.q
Rebel areas pounded by Syrian forces despite cease-fire call

deliver critical humanitar- old child out of the wreck-
ian aid and medical care age of their home after an
to civilians across the coun- airstrike, according to Syr-
try. ian Civil Defense workers,
Streets in the stricken area known as the White Hel-
were covered in all-envel- mets.
oping dust as one strike Nearly 200 people were
after another hit the same wounded, and rescuers
neighborhoods. said many of those proba-
Images of blood-soaked bly will not survive because
children and adults com- of lack of medical supplies.
peted with video of rescu- "Minute after minute, the
ers carrying white body number of casualties rises,"
bags or pulling survivors a rescuer from the White
from the debris of de- Helmets said in a video
stroyed homes. Sirens and from eastern Ghouta post-
wailing mixed with the re- ed on the group's Face-
lentless sound of airstrikes book page. "No area at
as residents of eastern Gh- all in Ghouta is safe. ... We
outa were unable to keep don't know what to say."
up with the onslaught. It was the second day of an
One video showed a survi- intensified assault on the re-
This photo shows Civil Defense workers digging for survivors underneath a damaged building after vor with torn clothes and a gion. On Monday, at least
airstrikes hit a rebel-held suburb near Damascus, Syria, Monday, Feb. 5, 2018. Syrian opposition bloody face running from 28 people were killed, while
activists said more than one dozen people killed in new airstrikes. a bombed building toward on Sunday, a suspected
(Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP) an ambulance. "Rescue chlorine attack left a doz-
By SARAH EL DEEB Syria's capital of Damascus a month. Ten towns, home me!" he yelled. en people suffering from
PHILIP ISSA into a spiral of violence and to nearly 400,000 people A visibly shaken man breathing difficulties.
BEIRUT (AP) — Russian and despair. trapped by the violence named Saeed emerged The region has been under
Syrian government forces At least 55 civilians were and a tightening siege, from a cloud of dust holding intense attack since the
launched a new wave of killed in what activists de- were bombed or shelled. his infant son, Ibrahim, who end of December as the
airstrikes and shelling on scribed as one of the The United Nations called had a streak of blood on government of President
Tuesday, plunging the be- deadliest days in the east- for an immediate, month- his head. Saeed had man- Bashar Assad struggles to
sieged area just outside of ern Ghouta region in over long cease-fire in order to aged to pull the 3-month- bring it under control.q

Egypt to investigate those calling for vote boycott

By BRIAN ROHAN plaint filed against 13 indi- launched by a supporter. dissent since el-Sissi led the the prosecutor general is
Associated Press viduals by a lawyer named A coalition of eight opposi- military overthrow of an concerned about."
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's Mohammed Hamid Salam tion parties and some 150 elected Islamist president in Dawoud is an outspoken
prosecutor general has to the Giza prosecutor's of- prominent pro-democracy 2013, and pro-government critic of what he calls the
launched an investigation fice, which may now call figures, including former media routinely portray dis- current wave of "oppres-
into leading opposition fig- them in for examination. presidential candidate sent as part of a foreign sion."
ures who have called for The move is yet another Hamdeen Sabahi, an- conspiracy to sow chaos. Former lawmaker Mo-
a boycott of next month's sign that authorities will nounced a boycott last Khaled Dawoud, head of hammed Anwar Sadat, a
presidential election, over not allow even the slight- month. The complaint ac- the Constitution Party and nephew of assassinated
accusations they are at- est questioning of President cuses them of "incitement one of the boycotters, de- Egyptian leader Anwar Sa-
tempting to "overthrow the Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's con- against the state" and try- nied the allegations in a dat, said Egypt needed a
regime." tinued rule ahead of the ing to destabilize the coun- Facebook post, saying that national dialogue and "real
Nabil Sadeq's office in a March vote, in which he is try. such "lies" themselves were independent institutions" in
statement late Monday the only serious candidate Authorities have waged a incitement and that he order to "avoid escalations
said it had referred a com- despite a last-minute bid sweeping crackdown on "cannot understand what and clashes." q