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HODEIDA, YEMEN — Thousands of people took to the streets of Yemen’s capital Sanaa and the port city of Hodeida in western Yemen on Sunday to denounce deadly airstrikes by the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led coalition following a pair of attacks on a fish market and hospital in Hodeida that killed scores of civilians. The protests also came in response to kidnappings targeting women in the district of Tuhaita south of Hodeida on July 29.

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A man from a refugee camp waits to vaccinate his daughter in Baghdad, Iraq [Xinhua]
A new report released by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says that a third of all Iraqi children require humanitarian aid while as many as 20 per cent are in danger of exploitation.
UNICEF says that there are at least 1.5 million children displaced by conflict in Iraq, with that number likely to rise if and when the Iraqi army moves to liberate the northern city of Mosul from the clutches of the Islamic State.

By Jamie Dettmer
Running from assault, abduction, and assassination at the hands of jihadists and FSA rebels, Syria’s ancient Christian community fears a religious pogrom is set to erupt.