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Yemen's government backed by a Saudi-led coalition is fighting Houthi rebels aligned with Iran. The UN special envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths had said he hopes to see the rival sides in the same room. We were not gonna waste time, and we are looking forward to getting our friends from out of here, and participating fully in the consultations. I know they want to do it. And I've spend lot of time talking to them and their leaders. I know they wanna be here. We gonna make sure they can come here and do that.

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India’s Supreme Court is expected to rule today on whether to throw out a ban on gay sex. Judges have been reexamining a Supreme Court ruling from 2013, in which a law dating from colonial times was upheld. The legislation known as Section 377 categorizes gay sex as an unnatural offense. Many activists’ side expected the Supreme Court to overrule its previous judgment.

Britain will brief the UN Security Council later on the arrest warrants it has issued for 2 Russian men suspected of having carried out a nerve agent attack in the English city of Salisbury. Golden Carara reports. British police sent intelligence to understand to identify the 2 individuals some time ago, and it’s thought may know their true names rather than just the identities on the valid Russian passports they used to enter the country, but with no sign of them traveling outside of Russia, the decision was taken to make detailed evidence public. The aim will be to use this to maintain pressure on Russia. There will also be attempts to increase the very least maintained European sanctions.

The German left wing politician Sahra Wagenknecht is launching a new broad left movement today. It's called Aufstehen, meaning stand up or arise. Mike Sanders has more details. Sahra Wagenknecht already has a political home. She is a leader of the party called the left in the German parliament. She's opening up a space for those in the center left social democrats who did not want their party to rebuild a coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats this year. She's hoping they will support from the green party. The movement might forge genuine left wing policies. Party leaders have given the idea of frosty reception, saying the movement is just as likely to exacerbate tensions as it is to force the left wing cohesion.

One of the world’s top tennis players Roger Federer has been knocked out of the US open championships in New York. He was beaten in 4 sets by Australia's John Millman, a player ranked 55th in the world who has never won a top level tournament. Federer is a 5-time US open winner and was one of the favorites to take the title this time.

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