From Cluster Bombs to Toxic Waste: Saudi Arabia is Creating the Next Fallujah in Yemen
Ahmed Abdulkareem | mintpressnews.com | 2020-03-20
From dumping toxic waste into the sea to littering Yemen's farms with tons of unexploded cluster bombs, Saudi Arabia is creating a legacy so toxic in Yemen that experts believe it could take a century to undo.
mintpressnews.com/cluster-bombs-toxic-waste-saudi-arabia-deadly-legacy-yemen/265897/

[World Report] Building bridges in Yemen
Sharmila Devi | thelancet.com | 2020-03-20
20 million Yemenis lack health care. A new air-bridge scheme won't help them all, but it could help to build trust. Sharmila Devi reports.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30672-3/fulltext?rss=yes

[Spotlight] Coronavirus epidemic: preparing for extracorporeal organ support in intensive care
Claudio Ronco, Paolo Navalesi, Jean Louis Vincent | thelancet.com | 2020-03-20
Zoonotic viral infections are more frequently crossing species to infect human populations. In 2003, the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus was transmitted to humans from exotic animals in wet markets in China, and in 2015, the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) virus was transmitted from camels in Saudi Arabia. In both cases, and with the 2019 coronavirus outbreak in China, the original host of the virus is likely to be bats.
thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30060-6/fulltext?rss=yes

Russia, Saudi Arabia Not Engaged in Price Wars – Kremlin
sputniknews.com | 2020-03-20
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia and Saudi Arabia are not engaged in any price war on the oil market, the global situation is unfortunate for oil prices, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday.
sputniknews.com/business/202003201078641702-russia-saudi-arabia-not-engaged-in-price-wars—kremlin/

US Drone Assassinations Continue Despite German Effort to Restrict Them
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-03-19
Berlin– A year after a German court issued a ruling that would have dramatically restricted U.S. drone operations in accordance with international law, no substantive changes have taken place, as the lawsuit that led to the March 2019 ruling is still stuck in the appeals process. | The lawsuit, filed by Yemeni engineer Faisal bin Ali Jaber over the killing of two family members, alleges that the German government intentionally…
truthout.org/articles/us-drone-assassinations-continue-despite-german-effort-to-restrict-them/