Large protests in Yemen after UK and US airstrikes

Military strikes by the UK and US on Thursday night against Houthi military targets in Yemen will not go without “punishment or retaliation”, the group’s military spokesman has said. Yahya Sarea denounced the “brutal aggression” and said there would be reprisals.

Rishi Sunak defended the strikes as a limited and proportionate reaction to attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea and said they constituted self-defence. But Russia, Iran and Turkey criticised an “escalation” of conflict in the Middle East, following Israel’s war in Gaza and disruption of global shipping routes.

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