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The United States is seeking a "de-escalation" in the Middle East despite its strikes on Huthi positions in Yemen, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says. "We seek to stop the spread of conflict and to create the conditions for de-escalation," he tells the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. SOUNDBITE
US President Joe Biden says that the war in Yemen "has to end", pledging to terminate US support for Saudi-led offensive operations and to halt arms sales, during his first foreign policy address at the State Department. SOUNDBITE
The United Nations Security Council demands an immediate end to attacks by Yemen's Huthi rebels on shipping in the Red Sea. The resolution passed "demands that the Huthis immediately cease all such attacks, which impede global commerce and undermine navigational rights and freedoms as well as regional peace and security." It passed after Russia, as well as China, Mozambique and Algeria abstained. IMAGES
Kurds call on Turkey to end a new security offensive in the southeastern part of the country, that they say has killed more than a score of civilians. Diane Hodges reports.
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