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Saudi-led air strikes hit Yemen
ADEN: The Saudi-led coalition launched air strikes on Yemen?s capital Sanaa overnight on Sunday, local media said, lending support to loyalists of former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh after he signalled a strategy shift that could pave the way to end the war.
In a speech on Saturday, Saleh appeared to indicate the end of his loyalists? alliance with Iran-backed Houthi fighters, saying he was ready to turn a ?new page? in ties with the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis, if it stopped attacks on Yemeni citizens and lifted a siege. Residents on Sunday, however, said a coalition air strike overnight killed 12 Yemeni civilians in one family in the northern province of Saada, the home territory of the Houthis, although this could not be verified. Separately, the Houthis said that they had fired a cruise missile towards a nuclear power plant under construction in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a report quickly denied by the UAE. Fresh gun battles forced shops and schools to close in Yemen?s capital Sanaa as well and residents warned a three-year rebel alliance was collapsing into a ?street war?. The Iran-backed Huthi rebels? partnership with powerful ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh appeared to have fallen apart after he reached out to a Saudi-led coalition fighting the insurgents. The Huthis? political office on Saturday accused Saleh of staging a ?coup? against ?an alliance he never believed in?.On Sunday, Saleh loyalists cut off a number of streets in central Sanaa and deployed heavily in anticipation of Huthi attacks, as security sources said clashes had already left some 60 dead across the capital and at its international airport. Sanaa residents said they had barricaded themselves in their homes to avoid snipers and shelling as clashes flared up around key ministries where the two sides had been working together just days before. The education ministry cancelled classes Sunday, normally the start of the school week, and witnesses said some bodies of those killed in previous clashes were still lying in the streets. The United Nations is trying to evacuate at least 140 aid workers from the Yemeni capital amid fighting that has cut off the airport road but it awaits approval from the Saudi-led coalition, United Nations and other aid officials said. أكثر... 
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