UN must block Iranian missile supply to Houthis in Yemen, UK and US say


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The US and UK have called for a UN maritime inspectorate to do more to prevent Iranian missiles reaching Houthi-controlled ports in the west of Yemen. The calls during a UN security council briefing on the crisis in Yemen came as a missile believed to have been launched by Yemen’s Houthi militia struck a vessel off the southern city of Aden – but caused no damage – and US forces fired missiles on to Hodeidah international airport. News of the latest fighting came amid a deepening of diplomatic divisions over how to handle the Houthi strikes, with Chinese and Russian...