<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">In Yemen, a Saudi-led coalition, backing exiled government, began an assault on Yemen's port city of Hodeida today. It is a crucial battle in the 3-year-old conflict that could push the Arab world's poorest country into further chaos. Saudi-owned satellite news channels later announced that the battle had begun.</span></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Emirati Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash earlier told French newspaper the deadline for a withdrawal from Hodeida by the Houthis expired today morning. </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The UN says some 600,000 people live in and around Hodeida, and as many as 250,000 people may lose everything- even their lives in the assault.</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Over 10,000 people have been killed in Yemen's civil war. The Saudi-led coalition has been criticized for its airstrikes killing civilians.</div>''<div class="yj6qo" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></div>