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An airstrike on the port city of Hodeida has wiped out internet services across Yemen.
A Franco-Tunisian Red Cross staffer kidnapped in Yemen almost a year ago was freed on Monday and taken to Muscat, the Omani foreign ministry said.
These are the latest developments in the Ukraine war you need to know today.
Russia is retreating rapidly from Kyiv and Chernihiv in the north as they change tactics, said Ukrainian presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak, who warned they would redeploy troops in the east. Meanwhile, the Red Cross said they would try once again to get to the besieged port city of Mariupol.View on euronews
The Red Cross said it hoped to lead an evacuation of thousands of civilians from Mariupol on Friday but needed concrete agreements on where fleeing residents would be escorted to. The ICRC said its vehicles would lead the convoy out of the city, which has been under intense Russian bombardment, but said it was not yet certain that the operation could go ahead.