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The United Arab Emirates intercepted and destroyed two Houthi ballistic missiles targeting the Gulf country on Monday with no casualties, its defence ministry said, following a deadly attack a week earlier. For more than six years, Yemen’s Houthi rebels have been battling a Saudi-led coalition that includes the UAE, repeatedly carrying out cross-border missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia, and launching an unprecedented assault on the UAE on 17 January. The coalition has in the past week conducted deadly airstrikes in Yemen it says are aimed at crippling the capabilities of the Iran-align…