The White House risks becoming a historical “joke,” Beijing warns.

<article data-history-node-id="420371" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/report-four-children-among-25-civilians-killed-week-us-bombing-yemen" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/report-four-children-among-25-civilians-killed-week-us-bombing-yemen" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Report: Four children among 25 civilians killed in a week of US bombing in Yemen</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>At least 25 civilians, including four children, have been killed in a week of US bombing in Yemen, the Yemen Data Project has found.</p> <p>At least 28 more civilians were also injured in the 38 air strikes conducted “in the heaviest and deadliest week of bombing since the last months of Saudi-UAE air war in January 2022,”&nbsp;according to the independent data collection project.</p> <p>More people were killed in the first week of the new US military campaign than in 12 months of US-UK strikes from January 2024 to January this year, the group said.</p> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="A boy lies on a bed at a hospital where he is being treated for injuries he sustained by a US air strike in Saada, Yemen March 25, 2025. REUTERS/Naif Rahma" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="09b64ced-99e3-4857-870a-b0e7e397a190" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/2025-03-25T122305Z_1532630104_RC29KDAT5LHC_RTRMADP_3_USA-TRUMP-YEMEN-STRIKES.JPG" width="2784" height="1856" alt="A boy lies on a bed at a hospital where he is being treated for injuries he sustained by a US air strike in Saada, Yemen March 25, 2025. REUTERS/Naif Rahma" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>A boy lies on a bed at a hospital where he is being treated for injuries he sustained by a US air strike in Saada, Yemen 25 March, 2025. (REUTERS/Naif Rahma)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

The prison population in England and Wales has doubled in the last 30 years, with overcrowding now endemic across the system. But the government's strategy of easing this pressure by granting early release to thousands of offenders has had a knock-on effect. With many lacking stability on the outside, reoffending rates are high, exacerbating the existing problem