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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the UK will act again if Iran-backed Huthi rebels in Yemen persist in attacking shipping in the Red Sea, speaking after a second round of joint US-UK strikes. "We urge the Huthis and those who enable them to stop these illegal and unacceptable attacks. But if necessary, the United Kingdom will not hesitate to respond in self-defence. We cannot stand by and allow these attacks to go unchallenged," he tells parliament. SOUNDBITE
US President Joe Biden says that US and British military strikes against Yemen's Huthis would continue, because the Iran-backed rebels are still attacking shipping in the Red Sea. "When you say 'working, are they stopping the Huthis?' No. Are they going to continue? Yes," Biden tells reporters at the White House when asked if the strikes were working. SOUNDBITE
Thousands of people take to the streets of Sanaa in protest against overnight US and British strikes on Yemen's Huthis. An ally of Hamas, the Iran-backed group has carried out a growing number of attacks on Red Sea shipping in solidarity with Gaza. IMAGES
The countdown clock that launches the beginning of the 2022 FIFA World Cup strikes 0, on the Doha Corniche in Qatar. IMAGES
President of EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, along with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leave the venue after "emergency" talks with US president Joe Biden and allies. The meeting is in response to a missile hitting Polish territory near the border with Ukraine. IMAGES
"We have never been in a better position to end the pandemic," says WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, urging the world to seize the opportunity to end the pandemic. SOUNDBITE
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