Kashmir, Yemen, Saudi Arabia.
Today's three stories you should know.
Kashmir
The families of three Kashmiri students who were - staggeringly - jailed for celebrating a Pakistani win over India in a cricket match are appealing for their release. Arsheed Yousuf, Inayat Altaf and Showkat Ahmad Ganai were arrested last October in Indian-administered Kashmir for sedition after they sent WhatsApp messages that prosecutors said were “against the country.” India and Pakistan control seperate parts of Kashmir but both claim the entire Himalayan territory as theirs.
More from Al Jazeera here.
Yemen
Hunger comes up a lot in Proximities. And I usually add the thought that it rarely makes major international headlines - something that, after years in journalism, I still cannot understand. The latest crisis is, the UN warns, in Yemen, where millions face a “death sentence” if funding cannot be found. “We have never before contemplated giving millions of hungry people no food at all. If these gaps aren’t addressed, it will simply be a death sentence for people whose coping mechanisms in some cases are completely exhausted,” the UN’s Martin Griffiths said today.
More from Middle East Eye here.
Saudi Arabia
Some 28,000 women have applied to a job posting looking for just 30 female train drivers in Saudi Arabia. Employment opportunities in the kingdom have been extremely limited for women and the number of applications for the positions, which involve driving bullet trains, appears to highlight huge pent-up demand.
More from Reuters via Haaretz here.