Truce in yemen’s Hodeida due to start today
Dubai: A ceasefire in Yemen’s battleground port city of Hodeida and its surroundings will start on Tuesday, a UN official said, after renewed fighting threatened the hard-won accord struck in Sweden. The deal announced on Thursday between Yemen’s Saudi-backed Government and the Huthi rebels included an “immediate ceasefire” in Hodeida, whose Red Sea port serves as a crucial gateway for humanitarian aid.
Colin Kroll, co-founder of HQ Trivia, found dead
New York: Colin Kroll, a tech executive who co-founded the HQ Trivia app, has died. He was 34. The New York Police Department says officers went to Kroll’s Manhattan apartment early Sunday after getting a call asking for a wellness check on him. They found him unconscious and unresponsive on his bed. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The medical examiner’s office will determine the cause of death. “He had so much talent and had accomplished so much at such a young age,” his father, Alan Kroll, told The New York Times.