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Jan 2024
30m 44s

Yemen strikes: Houthis hit US-owned ship...

Bbc World Service
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Houthis target vessel after US re-designates the group as "global terrorists". Also: British PM secures crucial parliamentary vote on plans to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda, and Irish language rappers heading stateside for Sundance.

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