BBC: Yemen crisis: 85,000 children 'dead from malnutrition'
An estimated 85,000 children under the age of five may have died from acute malnutrition in three years of war in Yemen, a leading charity says.
The number is equivalent to the entire under-five population in the UK's second largest city of Birmingham, Save the Children adds.
The UN warned last month that up to 14m Yemenis are on the brink of famine.
It is trying to revive talks to end a three-year war which has caused the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
Yemen has been devastated by the conflict. Fighting escalated in 2015 when a Saudi-led coalition launched an air campaign against the Houthi rebel movement which had forced President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi to flee abroad.
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Update #1: Aid group: 85,000 children may have died of hunger in Yemen (AP)
Update #2: 85,000 children under 5 may have died of starvation in Yemen war (CNN)
WNU Editor: Even though both sides are talking about a truce to alleviate the suffering, the war is only intensifying .... Yemen: Hodeidah sees 'worst fighting yet' despite UN ceasefire calls (The Guardian).
