World update: April 22 2019

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Houthi Interior Minister Abdul Hakim al-Maori reportedly died on Saturday while being treated for an illness in a Lebanese hospital. It’s unclear how or when he got out of Yemen, as are most other details about his death.

Meanwhile, Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi used his movement’s Masirah TV station on Monday to threaten retaliation

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