#NEWS: Girl in iconic NYT image depicting Yemen famine dies ~ Yemen Health Ministry Amal Hussein, a 7-year-old girl whose iconic image was captured by the New York Times has died, the Yemeni Health Ministry has confirmed. The stark photo of her emaciated body is one of the searing images of the Yemen's civil war. A week after the image was published, and amid the international furor over the brutal killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul, US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on the participants in Yemen's 3-year civil war to agree to a ceasefire "in the next 30 days". ~From journalist Hakim Almasmari in Sanaa. Opening line by CNN's Dan Wright in London. ~Background from excellent digital write by Kevin Liptak, Elise Labott, and Zachary Cohen
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Amal Hussein, a 7-year-old Yemeni girl whose photograph in The New York Times became a symbol of the country's long-running conflict, has died, Yemen's Houthi-held Health Ministry said.
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#NEWS: Girl in iconic NYT image depicting Yemen famine dies ~ Yemen Health Ministry Amal Hussein, a 7-year-old girl whose iconic image was captured by the New York Times has died, the Yemeni Health Ministry has confirmed. The stark photo of her emaciated body is one of the searing images of the Yemen's civil war. A week after the image was published, and amid the international furor over the brutal killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul, US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on the participants in Yemen's 3-year civil war to agree to a ceasefire "in the next 30 days". ~From journalist Hakim Almasmari in Sanaa. Opening line by CNN's Dan Wright in London. ~Background from excellent digital write by Kevin Liptak, Elise Labott, and Zachary Cohen
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