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How Houthi attacks affect both the Israel-Hamas conflict and Yemen’s own civil war – and could put pressure on US, Saudi Arabia

Yemen’s Houthi movement launched missiles and drones at Israel on Oct. 31, 2023 – provoking fears of a dangerous escalation of the Middle East conflict. With the militia – which controls part of the Arabian Peninsula state – vowing further attacks, Israel countered by sending missile boats to the Red Sea. They join U.S. warships already deployed in the area. The Conversation U.S. turned to Mahad Darar, a Yemeni politics expert at Colorado State University, to explain what is behind the Houthis’ involvement in the war – and how it could risk not only widening the conflict but reigniting hostilities

Hamas says Israel’s strikes on refugee camp kill more than 195 people

GAZA/JERUSALEM, Nov 2 (Reuters) – More foreigners prepared to leave the besieged Gaza Strip on Thursday as its Hamas-run government said at least 195 Palestinians died in Israeli attacks on the Jabalia refugee camp, strikes that Israel said had killed Hamas commanders. At least 320 foreign citizens on an initial list of 500, as well as dozens of severely injured Gazans, crossed into Egypt on Wednesday under a deal between Israel, Egypt and Hamas. Passport holders from Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Finland, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Jordan, the United Kingdom and the United States were evacuated. Gaza officials said

Police constable arrested in Odisha for accepting Rs 6 lakh bribe

Phulbani (Odisha), Nov 2 (PTI) Anti-corruption vigilance sleuths nabbed a police constable in Boudh district while accepting a bribe of Rs 6 lakh, an official said on Thursday. The constable identified as Harish Chandra Sahu was caught red-handed while receiving money from Ganja dealers, cultivators and traders to facilitate their ganja trade. Sahu was under the scanner of the vigilance before he was caught, said Hemant Mohanty the DSP, Vigilance, Phulbani. On Wednesday afternoon, the team of Odisha Vigilance intercepted him near Baghiapada outpost under Boudh Town Police Station. During interception, a sum of Rs 6 lakh was recovered from

Maratha reservation agitators blacken posters of Shinde, Fadnavis in Thane

Thane ( Maharashtra) [India], November 2 (ANI): Maratha reservation agitators blacken the posters of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minisiter Devendra Fadnavis in Bhiwandi, Thane. Meanwhile, Internet services were suspended in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district – both rural and urban areas on Thursday. Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange Patil had on Wednesday questioned the delay in the implementation of reservations by the Eknath Shinde-led government saying political parties are no different as they have a similar bent of mind in this matter. Addressing a press conference in Jalna, Maharashtra, Patil said, “Why do they (Maharashtra government) need time?

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