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Arab Coalition Allows Fuel Ship to Enter Yemen’s Hodeidah Port

Ships are unloaded at the port of Hodeidah, Yemen November 16, 2016. (Reuters file photo)
Ships are unloaded at the port of Hodeidah, Yemen November 16, 2016. (Reuters file photo)
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Arab Coalition Allows Fuel Ship to Enter Yemen’s Hodeidah Port

Ships are unloaded at the port of Hodeidah, Yemen November 16, 2016. (Reuters file photo)
Ships are unloaded at the port of Hodeidah, Yemen November 16, 2016. (Reuters file photo)

The Arab Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen allowed on Saturday a fuel ship to enter the port city of Hodeidah.

An official source said that the Coalition permitted the Bahia Danas ship, which was carrying 13,808 metric tons of fuel, to enter the port.

The source stressed that the Coalition will continue to support humanitarian and relief efforts in Yemen,

Coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki had declared that the Iranian-backed Houthi militias were preventing the distribution of vaccines in the war-torn country. They were also looting medical and food aid.

Such acts are a violation of all humanitarian laws, he stressed.

The Coalition had on Wednesday announced that it will continue to keep Houthi-held Hodeidah open to receiving relief aid.

It will remain open for 30 days, at the recommendation of United Nations Special Envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed.

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Aoun Vows to Tackle All Pending Issues between Lebanon and Syria

10 January 2025, Lebanon, Baabda: Lebanese President Joseph Aoun waits to receive his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides at Baabda presidential palace. Photo: Marwan Naamani/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
10 January 2025, Lebanon, Baabda: Lebanese President Joseph Aoun waits to receive his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides at Baabda presidential palace. Photo: Marwan Naamani/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
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Aoun Vows to Tackle All Pending Issues between Lebanon and Syria

10 January 2025, Lebanon, Baabda: Lebanese President Joseph Aoun waits to receive his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides at Baabda presidential palace. Photo: Marwan Naamani/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
10 January 2025, Lebanon, Baabda: Lebanese President Joseph Aoun waits to receive his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides at Baabda presidential palace. Photo: Marwan Naamani/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun stressed on Sunday the importance of cooperation to address all pending issues between Lebanon and Syria.

He received a telephone call from head of Syria’s new authorities Ahmed al-Sharaa, who congratulated him on his election as president on Thursday.

Aoun underscored the “fraternal relations that bind the Syrian and Lebanese people.”

The officials also stressed the importance of building and developing positive relations between their countries.

Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati had visited Damascus on Saturday for talks with al-Sharaa.

The leaders stressed their keenness on building long-term strategic relations based on mutual respect and national sovereignty after decades of strained ties.

The trip was the first by a head of government to Syria since Bashar al-Assad was toppled by a sweeping opposition offensive on Dec. 8, and the first visit by a Lebanese premier to neighboring Syria in 15 years. Ties between Damascus and Beirut have often been fraught since they became independent states in the 1940s.