For today, links to reports from the Associated Press and the Cradle; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (YEMEN 4-18-25 is HERE, or scroll down.  IRAN and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE and HERE, or scroll up.) — MCM

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FROM APRIL 18  Deadly U.S. airstrike on Yemeni oil port escalates Trump’s campaign against the Houthis, by Jon Gambrell | AP  DUBAI — A U.S. airstrike on an important oil port, Ras Isa, held by Yemen’s Houthi rebels killed more than 70 people and wounded many others, the Iranian-backed rebel group said Friday, marking a major escalation in the military campaign President Donald Trump launched . . . READ MORE . . .

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FROM APRIL 18  Yemeni army targets Tel Aviv, U.S. warships in retaliation to deadly Hodeidah attack. From the Cradle. The Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) announced on 18 April that it targeted Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv with a Zulfiqar ballistic missile, along with attacks on both the USS Harry S. Truman and the USS Carl Vinson in the Red Sea, just hours after US airstrikes killed at least 74 Yemenis in Hodeidah Governorate. READ MORE . . .

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