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The Croatian parliamentary committee for war veterans' affairs endorsed a proposal on Tuesday to establish a military graveyard in the central Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb for soldiers who fought for the 1941-45 Independent State of Croatia, NDH, a Nazi-backed puppet state.

People gathered in the Serbian capital Belgrade and the Croatian village of Kumrovec to mark the Socialist-era 'Youth Day', when showpiece events used to be held all across the former Yugoslavia and its leader Josip Broz Tito's birthday was also celebrated.

Saudi-led coalition air strikes and clashes killed at least 176 fighters and civilians in Yemen on July 6, residents and media run by the Houthi movement said, the highest daily toll since the Arab air offensive began more than three months ago. 

The United Nations has been pushing for a halt to air raids and intensified fighting that began on March 26.

Army forces loyal to Yemen's exiled president seized a border crossing with Saudi Arabia on June 23, officials in the area and witnesses said, dealing a rare blow to the country's dominant Houthi group. 

Five bombs exploded on Dec. 23 in Sanaa's old quarter, where many supporters of the Shi'ite Muslim Houthi movement live, killing a member of the group and wounding another person, a senior security official said.