Title: Middle East Violence Continues to Spread: Yemen

Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/560/yemen_audio.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Middle East Violence Continues to Spread: Yemen' data-article-id='898'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='12021'>In Yemen, the human rights group Amnesty International has investigated a series of airstrikes against Houthi rebels last summer. </span> <span data-start-time='12021' data-end-time='18646'>The group accuses a coalition led by Saudi Arabia of making the strikes. </span> <span data-start-time='18646' data-end-time='23625'>About 100 civilians died, including many children.</span> <span data-start-time='23625' data-end-time='29438'>Amnesty also claims to have found the remains of cluster munitions. </span> <span data-start-time='29438' data-end-time='34354'>This kind of weapon is banned under international treaties.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='34354' data-end-time='40083'>Saudi Arabia did not answer Amnesty International’s charges directly. </span> <span data-start-time='40083' data-end-time='48979'>But, it has said in the past that it targets only rebel fighters, and it that it does not use cluster bombs.</span> <span data-start-time='48979' data-end-time='59750'>The United Nations issued a report last month describing reported violations of international law by all sides in the conflict.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' 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In Yemen, the human rights group Amnesty International has investigated a series of airstrikes against Houthi rebels last summer. The group accuses a coalition led by Saudi Arabia of making the strikes. About 100 civilians died, including many children. Amnesty also claims to have found the remains of cluster munitions. This kind of weapon is banned under international treaties.

Saudi Arabia did not answer Amnesty International’s charges directly. But, it has said in the past that it targets only rebel fighters, and it that it does not use cluster bombs. The United Nations issued a report last month describing reported violations of international law by all sides in the conflict.

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