Spotlight: Yemenis to receive new year amid hard challenges, devastating civil war

A man counts money in the southern port city of Aden, Yemen, Dec. 31, 2018. In 2018, Yemen experienced dramatic escalation of the internal military conflict, severe collapse of the country's national currency and an outbreak of acute diseases. Yemeni people also suffered skyrocketing prices of basic commodities and lack of basic services, including clean water and electricity. (Xinhua/Murad Abdo)