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World in brief: February 11, 2025
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YEMEN: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today that an aid worker had died in a Yemeni prison three weeks after his detention.

The announcement came a day after the UN suspended its operations in the rebels’ stronghold in northern Yemen.

The aid worker was one of seven WFP staffers detained by the Houthi led Yemeni government on January 23. No cause of death was given.

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