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Sanaa, Jan 23 (EFE/EPA).- The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has stopped funding clean water and sanitation services in the Houthis-held cities of war-torn Yemen, a few months after the UN relief agencies in Yemen reduced a number of their programs due to lack of donor funding, according to local reports.Some 24 million Yemenis, 80 percent of the population, are relying on aid. (Camera: YAHYA ARHAB).SHOT LIST: YEMENIS FILL A TANK LORRY AND BOTTLES WITH CLEAN WATER FROM A WATER-TAP, WHICH WAS FUNDED BY UNICEF, IN SANAA, YEMEN.
The United States vows to hold Yemen's Huthi rebels accountable for a strike on a bulk carrier that killed two, apparently the first fatalities in the insurgents' attacks on shipping. "We will continue to hold them accountable. We call on governments around the world to do the same," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
"If we see an opportunity to prevent a missile from getting launched, we'll take it out," US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says after American forces destroyed a missile belonging to Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels. SOUNDBITE
Yemen's Huthi rebels fired three missiles at two ships in the Red Sea, US National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby tells reporters, adding, "one missile missed by something like 200km and the other two were shot down by a US Navy destroyer." SOUNDBITE
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
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