{"id":26192,"date":"2018-12-20T02:22:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T02:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26192"},"modified":"2018-12-20T02:22:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T02:22:36","slug":"yemen-ceasefire-goes-into-effect-in-strategic-port-city-of-hodeidah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26192","title":{"rendered":"Yemen ceasefire goes into effect in strategic port city of Hodeidah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>A ceasefire between Yemen&#8217;s warring parties went into effect at midnight Tuesday (4 p.m. ET Monday) in the strategic port city of Hodeidah.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/12\/13\/middleeast\/yemen-talks-hodeidah-ceasefire-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">ceasefire <\/a>was reached last week in Stockholm after a round of UN-sponsored talks &#8212; the first direct talks in more than two years between representatives of Yemen&#8217;s internationally recognized government, which Saudi Arabia supports, and the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The December 13 agreement stipulated an immediate ceasefire in Hodeidah, a major flashpoint in the country&#8217;s war. The besieged rebel-held port city is an entry point for 70% of foreign humanitarian aid into the country, according to the United Nations, which has described Hodeidah as a &#8220;lifeline&#8221; for Yemen&#8217;s war-ravaged population.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)A ceasefire between Yemen&#8217;s warring parties went into effect at midnight Tuesday (4 p.m. ET Monday) in the strategic port city of Hodeidah.The ceasefire was reached last week in Stockholm after a round of UN-sponsored talks &#8212; the first direct talks in more than two years between representatives of Yemen&#8217;s internationally recognized government, which Saudi&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}