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February 14, 2019

House Votes to End U.S. Support for Saudi-Led War in Yemen
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On Capitol Hill, the House approved a bill Wednesday to end U.S. support
for the Saudi-led war in Yemen, which has sparked the world's worst
humanitarian crisis in a half-century. Eighteen Republicans joined the
Democratic majority in Wednesday's 248-177 vote. House Democrats are
calling on the Senate to take up the bill, after a majority of senators
approved a similar measure last December. President Trump has signaled
he would veto the legislation-it would be the first veto of his
administration. The British charity Save the Children estimates more
than 85,000 Yemeni children under the age of 5 have died from acute
malnutrition since the Obama administration first backed a Saudi-led
coalition bombing campaign in 2015. The U.N. warns half of Yemen's
population-more than 14 million people-remain on the brink of
starvation.


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