UN chief condemns Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, warns an ‘El Nino of war’ is hitting world’s poor

INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY

NEW YORK CITY: The UN secretary-general, Antonio Guterres, on Thursday condemned continuing Houthi attacks on civilian targets in Saudi Arabia as “totally unacceptable,” and warned that the escalation and spread of conflicts around the world was acting like “an El Nino of war,” sending economic shock waves far beyond battlefields and hitting the developing world hardest. He told reporters at UN headquarters in New York that fighting in Yemen was escalating around the city of Taiz and elsewhere,