The U.S. military launched fresh airstrikes in Houthis-controlled areas on Sunday, killing at least four people in Yemen's capital city of Sanaa.
The airstrikes lasted from Sunday evening to the early morning on Monday. One attack hit a home in the northern parts of Saada, killing four people, including two women, and wounding 25 others.
Houses were destroyed near Yemen's capital city in the strikes, displacing local people.
"Many of my neighbors were hit by this air strike, their houses were hit. Our home was completely destroyed as well. I was lying there at the time, and suddenly I heard the sound of missiles. Then the windows fell down, landing right here," said Ismail Al-Harbi, an air strike witness.
The United States began large-scale air strikes against the Houthi group in Yemen on March 15. In response, the Houthi group attacked the U.S. aircraft carriers and accompanying vessels.
U.S. military launches new air strikes on Yemen's Houthis
U.S. military launches new air strikes on Yemen's Houthis
Tokyo stocks rose Friday, with the benchmark Nikkei stock index ending at a fresh record high, buoyed by optimism over a settlement in the Middle East conflict.
The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average ended up 1,654.93 points, or 2.68 percent, from Thursday at 63,339.07.
The broader Topix index, meanwhile, finished 38.65 points, or 1.00 percent, higher at 3,892.46.
"There was some optimistic trade around the latest U.S.-Iran talks, but this optimism seems to be based on the fact that things aren't getting drastically worse in the region rather than the situation improving significantly," Timothy Pope, a market analyst for China Global Television Network (CGTN), recapped the day's developments.
"This optimism was most strongly on display, I think, in Tokyo today, where the Nikkei rose 2.7 percent with hopes for some relief on oil prices and other currently scarce materials. It's not just oil that is not getting out of the region. As we know, it's other petrochemicals and things like helium as well. The general performance was pretty strong. Metals producers were doing fairly well in Tokyo, but in Japan as well, the market is very much focused on AI stocks. And today, the gains were strong for SoftBank -- it was up almost 12 percent after a bit of a battering earlier in the week. And that SoftBank gain contributed nearly a third to the Nikkei's overall gains on Friday," said Pope.
Tokyo stocks end higher as U.S.-Iran talks fuel cautious optimism
