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The United Nations has criticized a Yemeni detention center air strike that killed more than 70 people. On Friday, a facility in Saada, a stronghold of the Houthi rebel organization in northwestern Yemen, was attacked. The "escalation must cease," UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in a statement. The Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen denied carrying out the air strike in a statement on Saturday. The coalition further claimed that the site was not on a UN-approved list of targets to avoid, and that the Red Cross had not notified it. Since 2015, Saudi-led coalition forces have been fighting Houthi insurgents. As a direct result of the war, tens of thousands of civilians have been killed or injured, including over 10,000 children. Millions have been displaced, and a large portion of the population is on the verge of starvation. Rescue workers were still hauling dead out of the rubble hours after the air hit, and prospects of finding survivors are dimin

As Russia continued to build up its forces near the Ukraine border and planned new naval drills in the Black Sea, the US proposed to convene a summit between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin as a last-ditch effort to avert a new conflict in Europe. Washington and its allies, according to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, are also prepared to react in writing next week to Russian demands on the future of Nato and European security, which Moscow has stated must be addressed to avoid it using "military actions." However, speaking in Geneva with his Russian colleague Sergei Lavrov, Blinken reiterated the US and Nato positions that no compromise on the key issue could be reached. The idea of a conference comes as a weeks-long deadlock over Ukraine teeters on the verge of a key and perhaps violent phase, raising fears that Europe could be engulfed in conflict once more. During the Geneva talks, Russia increased military pressure on Ukraine by announcing large naval exercises involv