Yemen

Saudi Arabia shot down a Houthi missile allegedly supplied by Iran. The "direct military aggression" — in Saudi words — prompted the blockade, which now has aid agencies fearing new crises in Yemen.

Volunteers are the unsung heroes in slowing the spread of the disease in the world's worst cholera epidemic.

U.S. forces rescued the five other troops aboard a Black Hawk helicopter that went down during what officials called a training exercise.

The strike was reportedly one of a number in and around Sanaa. Blame has been put on the Saudi-led coalition backing the internationally recognized government of exiled leader Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.

Already racked by violence and the world's worst cholera outbreak, the country is now eyeing another crisis: The National Blood Transfusion Centre may have to shut down amid dwindling supplies.

At least five migrants died Thursday — "deliberately drowned" by smugglers afraid of arrest, the International Organization for Migration says. Some 50 others are still missing.

That's according to a new analysis from Save the Children. Yemen's outbreak is the world's worst in a single year since records have been kept, according to Oxfam.

The unfolding epidemic in the war-ravaged country "continues to spiral out of control," the International Committee of the Red Cross announced Monday.

First she was shot at on the way to work. Then her house was destroyed by a bomb. That didn't deter this female scientist.